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A woman fans coals to heat up a cooker on the railway track in downtown Hanoi. When investment decisions are made based on corruption, it is not only the honest firms that suffer, but also the public through lower quality and higher cost works. As Vietnam sits on the cusp of becoming a middle income country, reflections on achievements...

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  The World Bank announced Tuesday it will allocate US$4.2 billion for a five-year strategy to support reforms and investments key to Vietnam’s transition to a middle-income country. Under the Vietnam Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for the 2012-2016 period, the funding will be given by the International...

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  The World Health Organization describes primitive cooking stoves as the world’s top environmental killer On Thanksgiving, we cook and, if we’re doing it right, we give sincere thanks for being alive. But we rarely think of how the two really interact. We don’t...

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  New world title will make no difference until existing infrastructure, services are improved, experts say A tourist boat sails past the stone islands of Ha Long Bay Ha Long Bay, by virtue of being the jewel in Vietnam’s tourism crown, has always been in the spotlight, but the...

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US President Barack Obama (R) listens as Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao speaks during their meeting on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and East Asia summits in Nusa Dua, on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, on November 19. US President Barack Obama held previously unannounced talks with...

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US President Barack Obama (R) listens as Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao speaks during their meeting on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and East Asia summits in Nusa Dua, on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, on November 19. Of all the people Barack Obama thought he would be running against...

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  Front row (L-R), Australian Prime Minister Julie Gillard, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, US President Barack Obama, Prime Minister of Japan Yoshihiko Noda; second row from left Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak, Republic of Korea President Lee Myung-bak, Mexican Trade...

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President Barack Obama arrives during the first plenary meeting at the APEC Summit in Honolulu, Hawaii November 13, 2011. The head of Boeing chose his words carefully as he explained to President Barack Obama the “dilemma” that Corporate America faces in trying to do business in China. “We see a world where...

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    File photo shows New York’s Times Square in May 2010. The Internet is humming with bloggers who insist the mystical 11 pops up with alarming regularity in schemes such as 9/11. This coming Friday at 49 minutes before noon, people around the globe will experience a numerically...

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GM Le Quang Liem (L) has fallen three positions to 28th while GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son (R) has jumped 23 spots to 83rd. Photo by NLD. Chess ace GM Le Quang Liem slipped three spots in the World rankings while the country’s second best Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son jumped 23 places, according to FIDE rankings released Tuesday....

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