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Vietnam - US Vet On Peace & Friendship Run
A US veteran from the Vietnam War began a solo run from the
Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, to Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday (5/2), in
an attempt to promote peace and friendship between the former
warring countries. Former US navy rating,...
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Glitter heading back to Thailand after Hong Kong refuse him entry
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Bangkok - 20 August 2008
1. Pan passport control at departures at Suvarnabhumi airport
2. Mid of passengers queuing at a passport control counter
3. Mid of a hand surrendering passport to be checked, tilt up to...
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Authorities suspend East Sea search, but willing to offer further help
Vietnam on Saturday confirmed it had ended the search for the missing Malaysian airliner in the East Sea, but said it was willing to assist in any further searches if requested to do so by Malaysia.
The announcement came after Malaysia's...
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Czech prime minister Mirek Topolanek makes official visit
1. Exterior of presidential palace
2. Convoy carrying Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek arriving
3. Mid shot of honour guard
4. Wide of official reception ceremony
5. Mid of Topolanek and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung...
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Veterans from both sides of conflict on 40th anniversary of US withdrawal
Hanoi, Vietnam
1. Wide of Vietnam Military History Museum
2. Close-up of American tank on display
3. Wide of tank
4. Mid of museum visitors
5. Mid of American aircraft, markings read (English): "US Air Force"
6. Mid of Vietnamese...
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China's civil aviation chief on satellite images and care for passengers' families
A senior Chinese aviation official said on Thursday that the authorities could not confirm any link between the floating objects captured on Chinese satellite images to a Malaysia Airlines jet missing for more than five days.
"It is true...
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Sri Lanka Prime Minister visits Hanoi, ministers sign agriculture agreement
1. Wide shot, Sri Lanka Prime Minister arrives at Presidential Palace
2. Mid shot, Sri Lanka Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayake and Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung shake hands
3. Close of Vietnam and Sri Lanka flags
4. Mid...
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WRAP Czech prime minister Mirek Topolanek makes official visit ADDS s'bite
1. Exterior of presidential palace
2. Convoy carrying Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek arriving
3. Mid shot of honour guard
4. Wide of official reception ceremony
5. Mid of Topolanek and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung...
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VIETNAM: RULING COMMUNIST PARTY ELECT NEW POLITBURO
Vietnamese/Nat
Vietnam's ruling Communist Party has decided to keep its three aging leaders in power while giving more seats at the top level to army and police officers.
The party's National Congress ended by unanimously electing a new...
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Vietnam - US Vet Completes Celebration Run
An American war veteran celebrated the 20th anniversary of the end
of the Vietnam War on Thursday (27/4) by completing a 1,300-mile
run from from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City. Michael Liscio's run
began on February 5th. "Let's bury the...
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US sailors visit orphanage
1. Children outside school
2. Children stood in group waiting for sailors
3. Sailors getting out of car with boxes
4. Children clapping
5. Sailors handing sweets out to the children
6. Children taking sweets
7. Girl
8. Sailor joking...
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Rumsfeld in talks with counterpart
1. Close-up US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld walking down steps
2. Pan view of car arriving
3. Close-up Pham Van Tra shaking hands with Rumsfeld
4. Pan view of both walking up stairs
The US and Vietnamese defence ministers met on...
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Cambodia - Aftermath of plane crash
65 people were killed when a Vietnam Airlines aircraft exploded on Wednesday (3/9) as it tried to land in heavy rain at Phnom Penh's international airport in Cambodia. The Russian-built Tupolev-134 crashed into rice fields as it was...
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Crackdown ordered after anti-China violence, damage at industrial park
Vietnam's prime minister on Saturday ordered an end to all "illegal protests" in the country after a week of violent demonstrations against China's deployment of an oil rig in a disputed section of the South China Sea.
At a news...
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Australian FM Carr meets Vietnamese president
1. Wide exterior of Presidential Palace
2. Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr walks in and shakes hands with Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang
3. Close of handshake, pull out to wide
4. Close up of bust of Vietnamese...
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VIETNAM: COMMUNIST PARTY CONGRESS ENDS
Eng/Viet/Nat
Following the end of Vietnam's Communist Party Congress, foreign companies and financial analysts are sifting through the official speeches and reports to work out how this Congress may affect foreign investment.
The...
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Preparations ahead of arrival of Olympic torch
1. Wide of Ho Chi Minh City centre
2. Mid of city
3. Wide of traffic with Beijing 2008 Olympic torch relay banner
4. Beijing 2008 Olympic torch relay poster
5. Various of workers planting flowers
6. Wide of news conference for the...
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VIETNAM: 12-THOUSAND PRISONERS RELEASED (2)
Vietnamese/Nat
VOICED BY: Louise Bates
More than 12-thousand Vietnamese prisoners were released nationwide on Sunday as part of a celebration of the 25th anniversary of the country's reunification.
Ex-murderers, ex-drug traffickers,...
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Evacuations and preps as Tropical Storm Pakhar nears coast
1. Wide of fishermen bringing their boats to shelter
2. Vietnamese flags on boats, blowing in strong wind
3. Various of fishermen pulling in their boat
4. SOUNDBITE (Vietnamese) Nguyen Van Tan, fisherman:
"The storm comes early this...
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South Korean boyband JYJ on their chemistry, touring Asia and solo careers
South Korean pop group JYJ attended a press conference ahead of their tour, "The Return of The King," in Hong Kong on Friday (15 August).
The tour marks their comeback, an end to a three-year hiatus in which individual members pursued...
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Vietnam - US Ambassador presents credentials
Former prisoner of war and the first US ambassador to Hanoi since the end of the Vietnam War, Douglas "Pete" Peterson, presented his credentials at the presidential palace on Wednesday (14/5).
CU bust of Ho Chi Minh;
WS Douglas Peterson...
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A man traveling with a stolen passport on a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner was an Iranian teenager trying to migrate to Germany, and is not believed to have any terrorist links, police said Tuesday. (March 11)
SOUNDBITE (English) Khalid Tan Sri, Inspector General of Police:
"We believe that he is an Iranian (white flash) We believe that he is not likely to be a member of any terrorist group. And we believe that he is trying to migrate to...
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THAILAND: CARGO OF COBRA SNAKES INTERCEPTED
Thai/Nat
Thai authorities have intercepted a cargo of a thousand cobras bound for restaurants in Vietnam.
They were hidden in boxes underneath a legal consignment of turtles.
Southeast Asia is one of the centres for the criminal...
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US secretary of state arrives for visit
US Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in Vietnam for talks on a wide-ranging trade agreement the U.S. is negotiating with Vietnam and nine other Asian countries.
Kerry met with members of the business community and entrepreneurs...