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The Hanoi Hilton Defense (TalkLeft)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:17:59 GMT

Unlike the entire Left blogosphere, I could not care less how many homes John McCain's heiress wife has purchased for him. I worry about McCain's tendency to react like a madman regarding foreign policy issues (see the Russia-Gerogia conflict). But I do find it amusing that McCain's "reluctance" to discuss his prisoner of war experience does not extend to responding to silly charges about houses....

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Hanoi to host International Con-Build Vietnam 2008 (Vietnam Business Finance)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:32:00 GMT

The second International Con-Build Viet Nam 2008 will be held at the Giang Vo Exhibition Fair Centre in Hanoi from September 9-12 by the Munich International Trade Fairs Pte.Ltd (MMI) from Germany. MMI managing director Ronald Unterburger said at a press briefing in Hanoi on August 20 that Con-Build Vietnam 2008 will focus on expanding the construction market in Viet Nam and developing...

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Vietnam's fuel price hike pushes inflation in Hanoi (Vietnam Business Finance)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:26:00 GMT

While the government has yet to release full inflation data, domestic fuel prices that were lifted by 36 percent prompted analysts to predict Vietnam's inflation would hit 30 percent this month, the highest level in Asia [ID:nSP40510].Consumer prices in Hanoi, a city of 6.3 million people, will rise 1.9%, faster than the monthly growth of 1.7% in July, the Hanoi Statistics Department...

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Vietnam- Hanoi city! - Hanoi, Vietnam (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:41:46 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Hanoi, Vietnam Hello Hanoi!!! Wow, Vietnam is non stop people and scooters in Hanoi. When we took our airport minibus to the center of town to look for a place to stay, we were bombarded by thousands of motor scooters whizzing by, it was quite a task crossing the street with our luggage-this was on the main highway, but just getting...

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When is Hanoi Grill going to open? (StroudGreen.org - All Discussions)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:09:44 GMT

It's website is still in progress it seems. Anyone know? I quite fancy some Vietnamese food.

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Searching for the fountain of youth in Vietnam - Hanoi, Vietnam (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:18:11 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Hanoi, Vietnam Vietnam- Laos border: In search of the fountain of youth. My search for eternal youth started, of course, when I was much younger than I am now; in other words, I haven't found it yet, but, in a small Thai village along the Vietnamese-Laotian border, I was half a day from possibly locating the source of my world-wide search. ...

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Still in Hanoi - Hanoi, Vietnam (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:27:07 GMT

Jump to the full entry & travel map Hanoi, Vietnam Well I've been here almost 2 months now and have actually managed to get out of Hanoi and explore a bit of Vietnam. Ba Vi National Park First was a day trip to Ba Vi National Park, about 40km from Hanoi. We got a taxi to My Dinh bus station where we were accosted by bus touts pulling open the taxi doors the minute the vehicle stopped!!!!...

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The wife John McCain abandoned (Poor Mojo Newswire)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:54:37 GMT

The wife John McCain callously left behind | Mail Online She was the woman McCain dreamed of during his long incarceration and torture in Vietnam’s infamous ‘Hanoi Hilton’ prison and the woman who faithfully stayed at home looking after the children and waiting anxiously for news. But when McCain returned to America in 1973 to a fanfare of publicity and a handshake from Richard Nixon, he discovered...

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The McCain Family's White Lies (Reason Magazine - Hit & Run)

matt.welch@reason.com (Matt Welch) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:29:00 GMT

The Christian Science Monitor rounds up some exaggerations the McCains have apparently made about Mother Teresa's role in the adoption of their daughter from Bangladesh, and about what exactly Cindy McCain looked at when she visited the Hanoi Hilton. A couple of points about this, and the whole cross-in-the-dirt mini-kerfuffle: 1) Humans embellish memory . It's what we do, consciously or not,...

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Weekend at Bright - Bright, Victoria, Australia (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:38:01 GMT

Arriving in Hanoi on short notice.

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Vietnam Auto Show 2008 features hybrid cars (Vietnam Business Finance)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:04:00 GMT

Vietnam Auto Show 2008, the biggest of its kind so far, opened in Hanoi on August 21 with hybrid cars on show for the first time. It is also remarkable that the local supporting industry is well represented at the event, an encouraging sign of the industry’s growth. World-renowned makers such as Honda, Toyota , Ford, GM Daewoo and Mercedes-Benz have brought to the event their environmental

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Laos, China to Strengthen Natural Resource Management Cooperation (Red Orbit )

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:01:00 GMT

Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) [Xinhua: "Laos, China To Strengthen Natural Resource Management Cooperation"] HANOI, Aug.

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Vietnam to see boom in car demand (Vietnam Business Finance)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:39:00 GMT

Viet Nam will see a boom in car use by 2020 as forecasted at a seminar held by the Heavy Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MIT) in Hanoi on August 21. The seminar held that 2020 will begin a booming period for the country’s car demand with a rate of 38 cars per 1,000 population that will increase to over 50 cars per 1,000 population by 2025. It also forecasted that cars...

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Thien An commerce and investment firm allowed to launch foreign exchange services (Vietnam Business Finance)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:17:00 GMT

The State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV)'s governor on August 12 issued a License No 225/GP-NHNN approving Thien An Commerce and Investment Joint Stock Co to carry out foreign exchange services. Under it, the company located at 84/24 Vo Thi Sau, Thanh Nhan ward in Hanoi's Hai Ba Trung Dist with the Business License No 0103017819 dated on June 8, 2007 issued by the Hanoi Department of Planning...

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Investors Interested in Vietnamese Bonds (Investor's Iraq Forum)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:31:43 GMT

Le Duy Hai, senior dealer of the Investment Department at the Hanoi-based Vietnam Bank for Industry and Trade, known as VietinBank, comments on government bonds. The yield of Vietnam's five-year bonds dropped to 16.55%, the lowest since May 30, according to a daily fixing price from 10 banks...

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The Cross in the Dirt, Their Minds in the Gutter (Anti-Strib)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:30:00 GMT

Have you been following this ridiculous attempt to besmirch the reputation of John McCain by claiming that a story he told about something that happened while he was a prisoner of war in the Hanoi Hilton never happened. Or that he invented it from some other prisoner of war story by somebody else? The story that he has told is that while a POW, he was alone with a guard who, not speaking, drew...

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Cavico Applies Raise Climber and Reaming Technologies with Robbins 61R (Business Wire)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:01:00 GMT

LOS ANGELES & HANOI, Vietnam--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cavico Corp. (“Cavico” or “the Company

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Vietnam learns Japan’s public private partnership experiences (Vietnam Business Finance)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:38:00 GMT

A seminar took place in Hanoi on August 20 to provide Viet Nam with Japanese experiences in boosting public-private partnership (PPP) in infrastructure development. The event, co-hosted by the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), heard various reports on Japan ’s experiences in financing PPP projects and applying this model to the development...

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Vietnam Telecom National to deploy Fujitsu's high-speed optical wavelength division multiplexer (Vietnam Business Finance)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:15:00 GMT

Fujitsu Limited today announced that Hanoi-based Vietnam Telecom National will deploy Fujitsu's FLASHWAVE 7500 high-speed optical wavelength division multiplexer as the transmission backbone of its next-generation network. The FLASHWAVE 7500 series, which includes a Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (ROADM)(1) for building high-speed optical networks, has already established a solid...

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Dong Advances to 16,630 on Stronger Reference Rate (Vietnam Business Finance)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:12:00 GMT

The Vietnamese dong gained after the central bank set a stronger reference rate for today's trading. The currency traded at 16,630 per dollar as of 9:50 a.m. in Hanoi, versus 16,685 yesterday, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The State Bank of Vietnam set a daily reference rate for the dong of 16,498 compared with 16,499 yesterday, according to its Web site. The currency is allowed to...

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