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Illegal animal trade is a growing problem in developing countries all across the Globe. Recently, Thai authorities have managed to save almost 800 dogs, which were supposed to end up in cooking pots in Vietnam. According to Captain Teerakiat Thong-aram, a Thai navy unit has managed to stop a group of dog smugglers f... |
12 January 2012
10:22 GMT |
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A peculiar rumor is responsible for the extinction of three populations of rhinos. Experts are now certain that an old belief stating rhino horns power can cure cancer is responsible for the disappearance of three species and the increased vulnerability of the ones remaining to tell the story. Despite the fact that... |
25 November 2011
10:09 GMT |
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A new report from Niko Partners shows that six Asian emerging markets will generate more than 1 billion dollars (741.1 million Euro) in revenue for video game companies during 2015.Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore represent some of the fastest growing markets for games in the worl... |
22 November 2011
09:27 GMT |
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A new statistic provided by the WWF reveals that, during the last 10 months, poachers succeeded in killing more rhinos than they did last year, across South Africa.
After they announced that the ecosystem from Vietnam has no more rhinos, officials from South Africa National Parks have now indicated that this year 3... |
3 November 2011
03:39 GMT |
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According to an announcement made by the International Rhino Foundation (IRF) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), there are currently no more Javan rhinoceroses living in Vietnam. The last individual known to conservationists died in April 2010.During a study of dung belonging to Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus, all... |
25 October 2011
01:34 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion and Brightstar Corp. have just announced that a localized flavor of the BlackBerry Bold 9780 smartphone is on its way to the market in Vietnam.
The smartphone will arrive on shelves with an easy-to-use Vietnamese keypad and will also sport a localized user interface... |
20 July 2011
17:41 GMT |
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Hackers have taken up a role in the South China Sea territorial dispute between Vietnam and China and hundreds of websites were compromised on both sides.Ever since a confrontation between a Vietnamese ship and Chinese patrol boats occurred last month in disputed waters, tensions between Hanoi and Beijing have increa... |
14 June 2011
12:53 GMT |
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A government ministry in the Asian country of Vietnam has asked those companies that offer Internet connections and services to block all access to online video games between the hours of 10 PM and 8 AM, with the clear intention of eliminating gaming during the night hours and forcing players to get a bit of sleep.
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23 February 2011
09:19 GMT |
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Federal agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are currently investigating two foreign-exchange students from Winona State University (WSU) who are suspected of being members of a Vietnamese identity theft ring.The investigation is part of a larger probe into money muling activities and Vietnamese cyber... |
3 January 2011
06:14 GMT |
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Call of Duty: Black Ops is the new first person shooter from developer Treyarch and publisher Activision Blizzard, allowing the player to experience the covert ops conflicts between the United States and Russia during the era of the Cold War.As soon as the people at Treyarch said that Vietnam would feature in Call of... |
16 November 2010
18:31 GMT |
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A new trojan, created by a group of hackers sympathizing with the Vietnamese Communist Party, was specifically built to attack dissident websites and bloggers.The malware, which has been dubbed Vecebot by Atlanta-based security vendor SecureWorks, was created and released on around October 13.The trojan drops several... |
1 November 2010
06:56 GMT |
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According to a report from security giant McAfee, the Internet domain extension for Vietnam (.VN) is the riskiest country code TLD (ccTLD) in the world, and accounts for more malicious domains than clean ones.McAfee publishes malicious top-level domain (TLD) trends once a year in a report called "Mapping the Mal Web.... |
29 October 2010
07:30 GMT |
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The research collaboration between Bradford and Shanghai could find a new way of treating people suffering from malaria more efficiently and at much lower costs.The best malaria treatment currently available is artemisinin, an active ingredient extracted from a plant found in China and Vietnam, but there is a growing... |
6 October 2010
06:56 GMT |
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Mark Lamia, the studio leader at developer Treyarch, has said that the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops will bo doubt include some controversial topics, mainly because its set during the Cold War, a time when both the United States and the Soviet Union did all they could to spy and hinder their enemies.Talking with M... |
24 September 2010
15:01 GMT |
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DICE, as the developer, and Electronic Arts, as the publisher, have confirmed that they are set to offer more details on the upcoming Vietnam based expansion for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 at the upcoming Tokyo Game Show, the last big video game exhibition of the year.A post on the official blog of the Battlefield fr... |
9 September 2010
07:54 GMT |
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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 VIP Map Pack 4 is now available for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 as a free download for those who bought the game new. Second hand owners of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 copies will have to pay 15 dollars for a VIP code before receiving the free content that has been released until now by D... |
7 July 2010
18:00 GMT |
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DICE, as the developer, and Electronic Arts, as the publisher, have announced that they are working on an expansion pack for Battlefield: Bad Company 2, their first person shooter, which will take players to the war in Vietnam, allowing them to battle other gamers while joining either the United States Marine Corps o... |
15 June 2010
15:01 GMT |
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Another major Apple leak has been reported in Vietnam, the third one this month, stemming from the same source. A camera-equipped, third generation iPod touch (most likely the one Apple never got to release reportedly because of component suppliers) has surfaced over at Tinhte.vn, the site that also leaked the second... |
19 May 2010
10:14 GMT |
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Apple has been quite leaky recently, with not one, but two prototype iPhones getting in the hands of non-authorized individuals, and now an updated 13-inch MacBook emerges, which the company most likely plans to introduce later this week. The same Vietnamese forum (Tinhte.com) that leaked Apple’s second-lost iP... |
17 May 2010
06:04 GMT |
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Vietnam is again the source of an Apple leak, although this time around the update isn’t as major. We’re talking about Tinhte.com’s latest acquisition – a beefed-up 13-inch, polycarbonate, unibody MacBook, with a 2.4GHz CPU, an LED screen, new NVIDIA graphics (GeForce 320M) and a new AC power ... |
17 May 2010
03:14 GMT |
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It has been confirmed that a second fourth-generation Apple iPhone has been spotted in the wild, with its current “owners” posting tons of pictures and a video of the device. Via two well-known sites comes a massive amount of information regarding the prototype device, including the lack of certain featur... |
12 May 2010
06:46 GMT |
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A Vietnamese forum has been able to obtain a solid, production-ready iPhone 4G, almost one month after Gizmodo paid $5,000 for exclusive rights to review an almost identical prototype unit, getting itself into trouble for doing so. Taoviet.vn posted pictures of the device (two of them are available for your viewing p... |
12 May 2010
05:13 GMT |
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Friday was an important day because publisher Activision and developer Treyarch unveiled the first official trailer for their next videogame in the Call of Duty franchise. The new offering will be titled Black Ops and the launch date is set to be November 9, 2010, pretty much on the same day when Modern Warfare 2 arr... |
3 May 2010
06:01 GMT |
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For those who care more about the videogames that bear the Call of Duty moniker than about the huge drama surrounding the developers at Infinity Ward and the corporate types at Activision, Friday will be quite a big day as the first trailer for the next title in the series, developed by Treyarch, will be unveiled, pu... |
29 April 2010
16:41 GMT |
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Google's Security Team warned yesterday that a computer trojan of Vietnamese origin is used to attack individuals voicing their disapproval over recent politics in the country. The malware was discovered during the investigation into Operation Aurora and its creators might have ties with the Vietnamese governmen... |
31 March 2010
09:57 GMT |
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The conflict between Jason West and Vince Zampella, the two Infinity Ward leaders, and Activision Blizzard is far from being over and its continuation and fallout could actually have a clear negative impact on the future success of the Call of Duty franchise. This is the main conclusion that Wedbush Morgan analyst Mi... |
15 March 2010
15:31 GMT |
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It now seems pretty clear that Call of Duty developed by Treyarch, which should be released by Activision during the fall of 2010, will be set in Vietnam. A casting call published by a Los Angeles-based company talks about the main character of the upcoming game, Frank Barnes, who is described as being a pa... |
23 February 2010
17:51 GMT |
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, developed by Infinity Ward, is the biggest selling game of 2010 and publisher Activision must be pleased. But now the attention of the fans of the series is turning to developer Treyarch, which is working on the next game in the franchise. Details should soon appear considering that th... |
8 January 2010
17:41 GMT |
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With over five million Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 copies sold, and well over 4.1 million pirated downloads, MW2 is without a doubt the most popular game of the series, since it's also one of the best selling games ever made. And while everybody knows that the Modern Warfare series is developed by the now famo... |
6 January 2010
12:01 GMT |
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Palm Pre has been available on the United States market for more than three weeks now, and the handset seems to attract users on its side, as the latest analyst reports have showed, yet the Sunnyvale mobile phone maker seems to be mum on the GSM version of the device. The US variant, as many of you might already know... |
1 July 2009
08:20 GMT |
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On Wednesday, Vietnam's first oil refinery spilled tonnes of diesel into the waters on the central coast, as an off-shore cargo hose became loose and cracked, probably due to previous damage or to fatigue. Local authorities and environmental organizations are working to contain the spill, so that it will not con... |
26 November 2008
08:49 GMT |
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Three other Asian Apple stores are now online, celebrating their Grand Opening, just like the Malaysian one we talked about earlier. Residents of any of the four territories can buy a Mac or an iPod during a predetermined period of time to also get a free, celebratory T-shirt.As reported earlier, Apple is giving away... |
12 November 2008
09:57 GMT |
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Motorola has recently announced that it will expand the GSM network of Vinaphone, a Vietnamese leading mobile operator, subsidiary of VNPT (Viet Nam Posts and Telecommunications). The whole deal is worth about 28 million USD and will allow Vinaphone to "spread" its network in no less than 12 new provinces in north of... |
26 June 2008
09:55 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced the release of Yahoo 360plus, a special version of its popular blogging platform designed for Vietnamese users. The new blogging application is said to integrate multiple advanced features, many of them being already introduced into the classic version of 360. Although everybody expects the univer... |
7 May 2008
04:11 GMT |
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On Friday, 18 April, Vinasat-1 was launched from the Guiana Space Center, in Kourou, at 6:17 p.m. EDT, with the help of an Ariane-5 ECA space rocket owned by Arianespace. The Vinasat-1 satellite was joined by the Brazil Star One C2 satellite, and both were placed into geostationary transfer orbits. According to the ... |
21 April 2008
10:51 GMT |
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Samsung Electronics, currently the second largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world (after Nokia), will build a new handset plant in Vietnam, in the Bac Ninh province, somewhere at 30 kilometers North-East of the country's capital, Hanoi. The total cost of the investment is estimated at more than $670 mill... |
24 March 2008
10:58 GMT |
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Vietnam is that kind of country that struggles to regulate the content appearing on the residents' blogs, although we all know it's pretty difficult to do such a thing. But according to AFP, the Deputy Information and Communications Minister, Do Quy Doan, aims to reduce the amount of subversive and sexually... |
28 December 2007
06:01 GMT |
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Every once in a while, gaming sites (and not only) all around the world report stories according to which someone harmed someone else because of video games. It always happens, that's a fact. Generally, us games editors are skeptical about them being so games-related, but this one folks... Apparently, a 13-year-... |
21 November 2007
09:05 GMT |
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The Communist Party of Vietnam plans to switch its 20,000 desktop computers nationwide to open-source software until the coming year, this way avoiding problems with copyright infringement.The efforts made by Microsoft to reduce software piracy in Vietnam, where an industry group has estimated more than 90% of all so... |
16 October 2007
03:23 GMT |
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The super giant Google is continuously working on AdSense, the advertising platform which is able to bring considerable amounts of money for the registered users. Google already expanded it into numerous countries but the evolution continues and is now reaching new limits. The Mountain View company proudly announced ... |
25 September 2007
03:00 GMT |
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Hackers attack websites everyday, even if it's not in the news. As studies show it, hackers are after financial profits most of the time. You rarely see a "good old fashioned hack" when the site is down and a message pops up, so that's why I decided to write about this hacker's deeds. Now, this guy was... |
20 September 2007
09:16 GMT |
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Microsoft is just one of the U.S. organizations that let Vietnam fight their software anti-piracy fight for them. On June 21, 2007, Microsoft revealed that a group of both U.S. and Vietnamese organizations have inked agreements designed to help reduce the levels of software piracy. Asia in general, and Vietnam in par... |
22 June 2007
03:48 GMT |
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Yahoo is currently in a hurry, because the Sunnyvale company is working on several products for the Vietnamese market that will help the portal attract a new segment of users. It seems that Yahoo wants to roll out some utilities for Yahoo Messenger that will allow the local members to communicate in their mother tong... |
11 June 2007
12:06 GMT |
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Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer returned to one of the greatest sights of an American defeat after the current Iraq war to score one for the Redmond Company. Present in Vietnam, Ballmer actively participated in cementing an anti-piracy deal involving Microsoft products in one of the markets known for ... |
22 May 2007
04:43 GMT |
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Nintendo's DS is getting Operation: Vietnam from Majesco Entertainment. The game is currently in development over at the Coyote Console studios, slated for a worldwide release sometime this fall. In Operation: Vietnam, gamers have to try and escape enemy territory, after they've been dropped into the war-to... |
16 May 2007
11:28 GMT |
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This just goes to show that there's never smoke without a fire: the blogosphere has been covering this story ever since last weekend, when rumor had it that Angelina and Brad Pitt's visit to Vietnam might also include picking up a new member for their continuously expanding family. However, the rumor was qu... |
2 March 2007
05:33 GMT |
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