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Country's economy has made gains after slow start, ambassador says By JOHN SCHMID jschmid@journalsentinel.com Vietnam may be a booming economy in the eyes of the world, but Hanoi's ambassador to Washington speaks with humility about his nation's economic gains in the last decade. "We were...
Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 21:00 CDT Robert Patrick (CBS's "The Unit,""Terminator 2") and NY Mike, Harley Davidson San Diego owner, will participate in Habitat for Humanity of Orange County's inaugural "Blaze of Glory" Poker Run Motorcycle Ride on May 17, 2008. One of the stops will be at...
Hanoi, Vietnam -- Vietnamese Buddhists will strive to put the wheels of peace in motion, a meeting during the second working day of the United Nations Day of Vesak 2008 heard yesterday. A scene from the conference titled Buddhism and Conflicts and Wars Prevention in the framework of the UN Day of...
Survivors of Catonsville Nine mark anniversary with a protest Forty years ago today, nine Catholic men and women - three of them priests - walked into a military draft office in Catonsville and seized the records of hundreds of young men likely to be summoned to fight in Vietnam.
Posted on: Saturday, 17 May 2008, 00:00 CDT If there is an upside to modern warfare, it is the advance in battlefield medicine. Soldiers with wounds that were typically fatal during the Vietnam War now survive. An extraordinary 90 percent of U.S. soldiers who were wounded in Iraq have survived,...
STAFFORD COUNTY,VA(WUSA)---A Marine staff sergeant who killed himself and his brother after a police chase in Arizona earlier this week was suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD. At one point, he was taking 19 prescribed medications." I don't know if this medicine did something to...
The everyday life of a U.S. soldier during the Vietnam conflict will be one focus of Armed Forces Day festivities at Fort Jackson.Displays from the Revolutionary War to the most recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan will be open to thousands of people expected to attend the all-day event...
State Agricultural and Agro-based Industry Committee chairman Law Choo Kiang said the state government wanted to protect the existing 12,163ha of padi fields left in the state and to ensure they did not “disappear” from the state’s agricultural map. “There are 3,542 padi farmers working on the...
...cross posted from our sister site, New York City Moms Blog. We just got back from a whirlwind trip to Asia. Why does it seem whenever you leave a place it ends up all over the news? Unfortunately with the Earthquake in China and the Cyclone in Myanmar (Burma) it’s all very sad news. Vietnam...
Inspire Pharmaceuticals has received $1.25 million milestone payment from Santen Pharmaceutical, related to the completion of Santen's Phase III testing of diquafosol tetrasodium, for the treatment of dry eye. Santen has announced that it expects to file an application by the end of June 2008 for...
