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Casinos   Macau   Photos   Singapore   Tourism   Wikipedia: Macau		  Review Journal 
Casinos seeking next Macau
Sun 5 Feb 2012
The race is on to find the next Macau or Singapore. With the two Asian casino markets about to become the world's No. 1 (Macau with $33.5 billion) and No. 2 (Singapore with an estimated $6 billion)... (photo: WN / RTayco)
A Thai vendor carries chickens in a market in Bangkok´s Chinatown on Friday, January 13, 2006. A 59-year-old Thai man who bred and raised fighting cocks in northeastern Thailand contracted the H5N1 bird flu virus and has died, health officials said
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Vietnam reports 2nd bird flu death in a month
Thu 2 Feb 2012
Test results confirm that a 26-year-old woman died of the disease Jan. 28 after being hospitalized in southern Soc Trang province, said Truong Hoai Phong, director of the provincial... (photo: AP/Sakchai Lalit)
Why travel Vietnam & tips  The Saigon Times  Mon 30 Jan 2012
Int’l visitors to obtain VAT refunds from this July
HCMC – Foreign tourists will be entitled to value added tax (VAT) refunds on goods they purchase in Vietnam when leaving the country via Hanoi City’s Noi Bai Airport and HCMC’s Tan Son Nhat Airport.... (photo: WN / ActiveTravelAsia)
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Indian health officials cull birds to curb the spread of bird flu, as poultry fell ill and died in new areas in the region, in Badha village, Margram, about 270 kilometers (167 miles) north of Calcutta, India, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. Fears of a global bird flu pandemic that once dominated headlines have largely vanished in the West, but four years after the virus began ravaging Asian poultry, it continues to quietly spread. (js1)  Philadelphia Daily News  Thu 19 Jan 2012
Vietnam reports 1st bird flu death in 2 years
The Associated Press Vietnam, Cambodia report bird flu deaths HEALTH Antidepressants Might Raise Fall Risk in Nursing Homes Christopher M. Clark, led Alzheimer's study Johnson & Johnson settles suit... (photo: AP / Bikas Das)
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Vietnam War memorial in the new Chinatown in Houston, Texas In the post-war era, Americans struggled to absorb the lessons of the military intervention.[180] As General Maxwell Taylor, one of the principal architects of the war, noted "first, we didn't know ourselves. Scoop Wed 18 Jan 2012
Why I oppose the Vietnam War
Wednesday, 18 January 2012, 3:31 pm Opinion: Mitchel Cohen Why I oppose the Vietnam War by January 15, 2012 January 15, 2012 marked what would have been Dr. King's 83rd... (photo: Creative Commons / WhisperToMe)
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Farmers spread Coffee seeds under the sun to dry after harvest in Potoru, Pujehun District-Sierra Leone. Bloomberg Mon 16 Jan 2012
Vietnam Coffee Farmers Curb Pre-Tet Sales to Push Price Higher
Coffee farmers in Vietnam, the biggest robusta grower, may sell 33 percent of this year’s harvest by the start of the Tet Lunar New Year holiday, less than the usual 50... (photo: WN / John Sahid)
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black rhino Independent online (SA) Sat 14 Jan 2012
2011 saw dramatic increase in rhino killings
The devastating poaching onslaught on SA’s rhinos is continuing, with a record number – 448 – being killed last year. This total includes 19 black... (photo: GFDL / Theolinders)
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AFRICA: AU wants peace, security and bigger global role in 2012 IRINnews Thu 12 Jan 2012
AFRICA: AU wants peace, security and bigger global role in 2012
WASHINGTON, 12 January 2012 (IRIN) - The African Union (AU) has unveiled an ambitious wish-list of priorities for Africa that would give the continent a stronger global... (photo: UN / JC McIlwaine)
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Vietnam Airlines' Airbus A320 at Dong Hoi Airport IATA: VDH – ICAO: (Vietnamese: Cảng hàng không Đồng Hới or Sân bay Đồng Hới) is an airport located in Loc Ninh commune, 6 km north of Dong Hoi city, capital of Quang Binh province, in North Central Coast of Vietnam, 500 km South-east of Hanoi by road. The Saigon Times Mon 9 Jan 2012
Airlines add flights on stronger Tet demand
HCMC - Vietnamese airlines are providing the domestic market with many more seats to satisfy surging demand for air travel in the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet), the... (photo: Creative Commons / Genghiskhan)
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File - Workers at a tea plantation farm in Kerala, India. The Saigon Times Thu 5 Jan 2012
2011 tea exports decrease on poor crop
HANOI – Although Vietnam’s exports of agro-products in 2011 soared by one third year on year, tea was the only item seeing a drop in both export volume and value. Data... (photo: WN / Sayali Santosh Kadam)
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Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping makes a speech at Government Flying Service in Hong Kong, Tuesday July 8, 2008. Government Flying Service was sending the rescue team to help the China's earthquake. China morning round-up: Xi Jinping's US visit BBC News
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Two Syrian rebels evacuate an injured fellow rebel in Idlib, Syria, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012. UN condemns 'appalling brutality' in Syria Khaleej Times
The President, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil poses with the flower �Tulips� at the annual opening of Mughal Gardens Udyanotsav, at Rashtrapati Bhawan, in New Delhi on February 09, 2012. Mughal Gardens to open for public from tomorrow The Times of India
Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan smiles while accepting an award "Forever Indian" from from the Diamond Trading Company, DTC, a member of De Beers Group, in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, Jan 23, 2007.( Amitabh Bachchan to undergo surgery BBC News
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