12/02/2008
Westminster becomes first US city with Vietnamese majority rule (EARTHtimes.org)
Los Angeles - In London, Westminster is known as the seat of parliament. But the southern Californian city of Westminster has another claim to fame. The Orange County municipality became the first city in the US with a Vietnamese-majority city counci...
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12/02/2008
Czech president declaims raid of Vietnamese market (Vietnam Net)
VietNamNet Bridge – Speaking on television on Sunday, Ladislav Jakl, assistant to Czech President Vaclav Klaus, said the president was unsatisfied about the raid of Sapa , a market of Vietnamese people in Prague .
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12/02/2008
Vietnamese average lifespan is over 72 (Vietnam Net)
VietNamNet Bridge – The average lifespan of Vietnamese people is more than 72. Women’s average lifespan is 4-5 years longer than men. The elderly account for 9.45% of the population, according to the National Committee for Elderly People.
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12/02/2008
Vietnamese banks set the lowest lending interest rates (People's Daily)
A number of Vietnam's commercial banks have slashed their lending interest rates to the lowest level of this year, in response to the State Bank of Vietnam's move to reduce the prime interest rate. The Agricultural and Rural Development Bank (Agribank) was the first to reduce its annual lending rate of Vietnamese dong to 11 percent per year, easing businesses' credit crunch. Bank for Investment ...
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12/02/2008
Friendly meeting between Vietnamese and Cambodian young people (Nhân Dân)
Nhan Dan – Nearly 500 Vietnamese and 50 Cambodian young people joined the Vietnam-Cambodia Youth’s Friendly Meeting Programme 2008 at Ho Chi Minh City Youth House of Culture on December 1.
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12/01/2008
Orange County group keeps Vietnamese culture alive (Los Angeles Times)
Little Saigon's Lac Hong group, started by Vietnam native and zither expert Mai Nguyen, has grown to 100 students who learn traditional music and dance. Before the Vietnam War, Mai Nguyen was an acclaimed music professor at the Saigon National Conservatory. Students came from afar to seek out her expertise with the Vietnamese zither, a harp-like instrument that in the right hands produces a ...
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12/02/2008
Vietnamese security firm: Your face is easy to fake (CNET)
During demonstration, company shows that face recognition-based authentication in laptops from Lenovo, Toshiba, and Asus may not be an effective security measure.
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12/01/2008
Vietnamese iPhone Unlock Isn't for the Faint of Heart [IPhone] (Gizmodo)
You might think you're some kind of l337 h4x0r because you used software to unlock your iPhone. Big deal! You've got nothing on the Vietnamese hackers that'll unlock your iPhone for you the hard way....
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12/02/2008
Last Bytes: Google, Dell, Classifieds, Face Recognition Software (Portfolio.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Google revenues expected to shrink till 2010. [AlleyInsider ]Dell did "pretty good" on Black Friday. [AlleyInsider ]Company that powers MySpace classifieds to power Facebook classifieds. [TechCrunch ]Vietnamese security firm says face recognition authentication software in PCs may not be effective. [Cnet ]by Shannon Geis. □
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12/02/2008
Pittsburgh Has New Vietnamese Sister City (WTAE-TV Pittsburgh)
Pittsburgh has a new sister city in Vietnam.
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