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Economy   Food   Market   Photos		  The Saigon Times 
Milk market marks new price hike
Tue 14 Feb 2012
A customer buys imported milk at a store in HCMC. The prices of foreign-made dairy products have increased by 9-19% since early December, while local dairy products have also entered a price hike -... (photo: WN)
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Currency   Dollar   Photos   Vietnam   Wikipedia: Vietnamese đồng		  The Saigon Times 
Dollar weakens against Vietnam dong
Sun 12 Feb 2012
HCMC – The U.S. dollar has become weaker against the local currency as a number of commercial banks cut the exchange rate due to the redundant U.S. dollar supply at home. The similar situation is... (photo: WN)
In this photo obtained by the Associated Press on Thursday June 2, 2011 and taken on May 8, 2011, a man, who according U.N. reports had been killed in a apparent massacre of civilians, lies on the ground in the village of Kaldak, Jonglei state, southern Sudan. Southern Sudan soldiers attacking a minority ethnic group targeted and shot unarmed men and women after a battle at this remote Nile River village that resulted in hundreds of civilian victims, according to secret U.N. reports obtained by The Associated Press. The killings including of women and young children, raise serious questions over how much control Southern Sudan's military leaders have over troops in the field as the south approaches its independence day July 9, when it officially breaks away from northern Sudan and becomes the world's newest nation. (AP Photo)  IRINnews  Sat 11 Feb 2012
SOUTH SUDAN: Briefing on Jonglei violence
JUBA, 10 February 2012 (IRIN) - Several clashes involving thousands of combatants in South Sudan's Jonglei state have highlighted the volatility of the world's newest country, affecting some 140,000... (photo: AP)
Jonglei   Photos   Sudan   Violence   Wikipedia: 2011–2012 South Sudan tribal clashes
Rice nursery and fields in Karonga, Malawi.  IRINnews  Fri 10 Feb 2012
MALAWI: Rising prices and looming maize shortages
LILONGWE/JOHANNESBURG, 9 February 2012 (IRIN) - Malawi’s maize-growing central and southern regions have not had good rains, prompting concerns about possible shortages of the staple in the... (photo: Creative Commons / Swathi Sridharan)
Agriculture   Malawi   Photos   Shortage   Wikipedia: Malawi
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Macau Economy Review Journal Sun 5 Feb 2012
Casinos seeking next Macau
The race is on to find the next Macau or Singapore. With the two Asian casino markets about to become the world's No. 1 (Macau with $33.5 billion) and No. 2 (Singapore... (photo: WN / RTayco)
Casinos   Macau   Photos   Singapore   Tourism   Wikipedia: Macau
A Thai vendor carries chickens in a market in Bangkok´s Chinatown on Friday, January 13, 2006. A 59-year-old Thai man who bred and raised fighting cocks in northeastern Thailand contracted the H5N1 bird flu virus and has died, health officials said PhysOrg Thu 2 Feb 2012
Vietnam reports 2nd bird flu death in a month
Test results confirm that a 26-year-old woman died of the disease Jan. 28 after being hospitalized in southern Soc Trang province, said Truong Hoai Phong, director of the... (photo: AP/Sakchai Lalit)
Disease   Health   Photos   Vietnam   Wikipedia: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1
Why travel Vietnam & tips The Saigon Times Mon 30 Jan 2012
Int’l visitors to obtain VAT refunds from this July
HCMC – Foreign tourists will be entitled to value added tax (VAT) refunds on goods they purchase in Vietnam when leaving the country via Hanoi City’s Noi Bai Airport and... (photo: WN / ActiveTravelAsia)
Airport   Photos   Tourism   Vietnam   Visitors   Wikipedia: Vietnam
Indian health officials cull birds to curb the spread of bird flu, as poultry fell ill and died in new areas in the region, in Badha village, Margram, about 270 kilometers (167 miles) north of Calcutta, India, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. Fears of a global bird flu pandemic that once dominated headlines have largely vanished in the West, but four years after the virus began ravaging Asian poultry, it continues to quietly spread. (js1) Philadelphia Daily News Thu 19 Jan 2012
Vietnam reports 1st bird flu death in 2 years
The Associated Press Vietnam, Cambodia report bird flu deaths HEALTH Antidepressants Might Raise Fall Risk in Nursing Homes Christopher M. Clark, led Alzheimer's study... (photo: AP / Bikas Das)
Disease   Health   Photos   Vietnam   Wikipedia: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1
Vietnam War memorial in the new Chinatown in Houston, Texas In the post-war era, Americans struggled to absorb the lessons of the military intervention.[180] As General Maxwell Taylor, one of the principal architects of the war, noted "first, we didn't know ourselves. Scoop Wed 18 Jan 2012
Why I oppose the Vietnam War
Wednesday, 18 January 2012, 3:31 pm Opinion: Mitchel Cohen Why I oppose the Vietnam War by January 15, 2012 January 15, 2012 marked what would have been Dr. King's 83rd... (photo: Creative Commons / WhisperToMe)
Photos   US   Vietnam   War   Wikipedia: Vietnam War
Farmers spread Coffee seeds under the sun to dry after harvest in Potoru, Pujehun District-Sierra Leone. Bloomberg Mon 16 Jan 2012
Vietnam Coffee Farmers Curb Pre-Tet Sales to Push Price Higher
Coffee farmers in Vietnam, the biggest robusta grower, may sell 33 percent of this year’s harvest by the start of the Tet Lunar New Year holiday, less than the usual 50... (photo: WN / John Sahid)
Coffee   Economy   Photos   Vietnam   Wikipedia: Coffee


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