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An agency of the Ministry of Public Security detected websites set up specifically to trade in personal information of both individuals and organisations. A website owner caught trading in personal information The agency, dubbed A87, made a statement recently, that the information being sold included home and mobile phone numbers, home addresses, email addresses. Even [...]
Amid the worries about the low efficiency of outward investment and the foreign currency bleeding, the Ministry of Planning and Investment MPI plans to apply a series of drastic measures to manage the outward investment. Vietnam attempts to control foreign currency remittance abroad Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen The Phuong said that in [...]
Philippine tourism promotion efforts suffered another blow Friday over claims its new slogan copied an old Swiss one, having already ditched an earlier campaign that allegedly plagiarised Poland’s. Hours after the government rolled out its “It’s more Fun in the Philippines” campaign, Internet pundits pointed to a 1951 Swiss National Tourist Office ad which proclaimed [...]
Cheeseburger and fries, hold the politicians. With Republican presidential hopefuls blitzing New Hampshire ahead of its critical January 10 primary, one small eatery in coastal Portsmouth has had it with gladhanding campaigners disrupting diners. So the hand-drawn, red-white-and-blue sign on the door of the 28-seat Colby’s Breakfast and Lunch restaurant declares “No Politicians No Exceptions.” [...]
Manchester United held on to quell a spirited second half comeback by Manchester City as they knocked the holders out of the FA Cup with a 3-2 third round win at Eastlands here on Sunday. United, who brought 37-year-old midfielder Paul Scholes out of retirement as a second half substitute, seemed to be in control [...]
British Prime Minister David Cameron has vowed to give shareholders the right to veto executive pay packages, amid mounting political pressure and public anger over huge salaries and bonuses. “The market for top people isn’t working, it needs to be sorted out,” he told The Sunday Telegraph newspaper. “Let’s empower the shareholders by having a straight, shareholder [...]
Three police officers from Vu Quang District, Ha Tinh Province drowned when their basket boat was sucked under the Ngan Sau River by a whirlpool yesterday. At 4 pm Thursday Lieutenant Nguyen Van Hung, 26, and Sergeant Vo Linh Thuan, 20, of the district police department, crossed the river in a canoe to Duc Lien [...]
The annual Young Artists’ Fine Arts Festival in Hanoi has been rocked by scandal. Do Trung Kien’s work Cho xu ly (Wait to be treated) (R) and Nguyen Quang Hai’s Phuot II (Backpacking tour II) (L). There are a few differences in colors and some minor details but otherwise the paintings match each other in [...]
Vietnam’s top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh has held on to his 7th position in the Badminton World Federation’s (BWF) rankings for eight weeks. However, he is only placed 15th in the Badminton Super Series. He has not participated in any tournament since he was defeated by the world’s No.4 Peter Hoeg Gade from Denmark. [...]
Last Thursday, a monkey escaped from a cage in the house of Nguyen Ba Luu in Dong Xoai Town, Binh Phuoc Province and bit two people, seriously injuring them. The accident happened at 12.30 pm when the monkey, which is said to weigh tens of kg, struggled and broke free from the iron cage. It [...]