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Thai Hoa Palace, where Nguyen Dynasty Emperors held several important ceremonies during Tet holiday in the royal palace in the past Nguyen Phuoc Bao Hien, 85, who calls the Nguyen Dynasty Emperor Duy Tan (1900-1945) uncle, still remembers the old days when he attended Tet holiday celebrations in the royal palace in Hue Town....

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  Alternative exhibition spaces are striving to develop in Vietnam 20 years after they first came on the scene An artist performing his work at the ‘Shaping a Line’ exhibition, opening from July 28 to September 8, at...

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A photo on AsianScientist showing a mother and her baby. A new mass media campaign in Vietnam asks mothers to feed their babies early and exclusively with breast milk for at least the first six months. A mass media campaign launched in Vietnam December 14 asks parents to ensure exclusive and continued breastfeeding during...

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A worker checks pipes and valves at Amaal oil field in eastern Libya October 7, 2011. Abdula Altako was killed in March guarding the oil field he worked for, one of the first but by no means the last of Libya’s oil workers to die defending the country’s lifeblood. Abandoned by their foreign owners during the uprising...

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  Vietnam’s central bank increased its refinancing rate for the first time since May, as the nation tries to steady its currency and tame Asia’s fastest inflation. The State Bank of Vietnam raised the refinancing rate to 15 percent from 14 percent, effective Oct. 10, it said in a statement on its...

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A ship belonging to Vinalines. G overnment inspectors Thursday began investigating fund and property management at leading shipping firm Vinalines, which announced big losses recently.   The 75-day inspection will cover Vinalines’ long term investments initiated between the beginning of...

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One-hundred Yuan notes are seen in this picture illustration in Beijing March 22, 2011. China’s long-term plan to cut reliance on investment as a growth engine is clashing with its short-term need for protection against a worsening global outlook. Beijing has made it clear that consumption, not investment, must eventually...

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  Government’s inflation fight will decide short-term future, analysts say Motorcyclists ride past a construction site in the suburbs of Ho Chi Minh City on August 8. For the first time in two years, land prices have gone down in Hanoi. Perhaps for the first time ever, developers...

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The United States and the world struggled to come to grips with the first-ever US credit rating downgrade, as Washington is held to account for months of political acrimony and years of swelling US debt. The White House has called for an end to the political gridlock blamed for the first-ever US credit rating downgrade as allies...

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  I am a very lucky person. My mother breastfed me when I was baby – which was not very common in the 1950s in Sweden. I’ve breastfed both of my daughters – the youngest was reared on breast milk for 18 months. Now I have a 10-month old grandson, who was exclusively breastfed for...

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