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IBM says it’s been hired to build an e-government cloud for Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City, the one-time capital of South Vietnam. As a first step it’s supposed to consolidate all of the city government’s e-mail systems and web sites. The work will apparently be done in collaboration with something called Quang Trung Software City (QTSC), which let IBM the contract. QTSC will evidently run the new ...
HANOI -(Dow Jones)- Mekong Development Joint Stock Commercial Bank, formerly known as My Xuyen Bank, said Tuesday it had pretax profit of VND110 billion ($ 5.9 million) in the 11 months to Nov. 30, up 32% from a year earlier.
Hanoi - Foreign donors Friday pledged over 8 billion dollars in official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam next year, compared with 5 billion dollars for 2009. The rise in aid, announced at the annual Consultative Group meeting of donors in Ha...
HANOI, Vietnam----Cavico Corp. , a leading infrastructure development company based in Vietnam, today announced that it has been awarded the Class III Labor Medal issued by office of the President of Vietnam.
Col. Van T. Barfoot now has support from the White House.The Medal of Honor recipient and veteran of World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars is fighting his Henrico County homeowners association over whether he can use a flagpole on his property to fly the U.S. flag.
Robert Purcell had a funeral before he needed one. It was held in the mid-1960s during the Vietnam War. Purcell, an Air Force fighter pilot and Louisville native, was shot down, and for the next three and a half years, his family didn't know he was alive.
Hanoi - Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung called for more renewable energy projects as a response to climate change, but provided no concrete plans, local press reported Tuesday. Dung pushed for more investment in solar and wind power in a me...
JACKSON, Miss. — Retired Air Force Col. Jack Pitchford, a fighter pilot from Mississippi who survived seven years in the notorious Vietnamese prison camp known as the “Hanoi Hilton,” has died. He was 82.The Natchez native died Wednesday after battling a brain tumor, said his brother, 62-year-old Jim Pitchford of Baton Rouge, La.Pitchford was shot down over North Vietnam in 1965 and taken to Hoa ...
Hovering in the shadows of President Barack Obama 's decision to ramp up the nation's war effort, even as he promises to bring it to a swift finish, are ghosts of the decision made 44 years ago by a Texan in the White House.
Kenneth Jerome Nelson, widely known as self-appointed guardian of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Capitol Park, pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to wearing a Silver Star he did not earn.
Vientiane - The prime ministers of Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam are scheduled to attend the opening ceremony of the 25th Southeast Asian Games hosted by Laos this week, state media reported Tuesday. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, Myanma...
WHEAT RIDGE - Bob Lopez remembers what it felt like. A soldier in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, he knows firsthand how unpopular that conflict was with the American public. When soldiers, like Lopez, came home they were greeted with anything but open arms.
Editor’s Note: This is one of a series of articles about local agencies that receive funding from the Bryan County United Way. They are the newest chapter of the Vietnam Veterans Association (VV...
By Bill Hess Herald/Review No descr FORT HUACHUCA — A former deputy commanding general of the Army Strategic Communications Command on the post in 1967 who had set up the first Signal Corps network on Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944 has died. Retired Brig. Gen. Gordon B. Cauble, a veteran of World War II , the Korean War and the Vietnam War, served as the No. 2 leader of STRATCOM in the late 1960s ...
Vientiane - The prime ministers of Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam are scheduled to attend the opening ceremony of the 25th Southeast Asian Games being hosted by Laos this month, state media reported Tuesday. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen,...
Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Robusta coffee rose the most in a week in London on speculation that lower supply from Vietnam, the world’s biggest grower, will boost demand and push prices higher.
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