Clipmarks | Vietnam ClipsVietnam experiences a "quiet" sexual revolutionclipped by: wiccantexanHO CHI MINH CITY (Reuters) - A young woman lives with her boyfriend but hides it from her family, girls write blogs about love and relationships and couples seeking privacy cuddle in public parks at nightfall. A "quiet" sexual revolution is unfolding in Vietnam, an intensely family-oriented society that holds strong traditions of women being married by their mid-20s and having children. Young people are dating more before marriage, having pre-marital sex, and have more outlets through the Internet to talk about the joys and problems of relationships than previous generations.
Scientists Find Endangered Monkeys In Vietnamclipped by: dorine1722Science Daily ? A team of scientists from WWF and Conservation International (CI) has discovered the world?s largest known population of grey-shanked doucs (Pygathrix cinerea), increasing chances that the Endangered monkey can be saved from extinction. The grey-shanked douc is one of the world?s 25 most endangered primates and has only been recorded in the five central Vietnamese provinces of Quang Nam, Kon Tum, Quang Ngai, Binh Dinh, and Gia Lai. Fewer than 1,000 individuals are believed to still exist, and until now, only one other population with more than 100 animals was known. ?This is an exciting and important discovery because of the large size of the population,? ?It?s very rare to discover a population of this size with such high numbers in a small area, especially for a species on the brink of extinction. This indicates that the population has not been impacted by hunting like all other known populations of the species.? Vietnam Infrastructure Fundclipped by: rogernuTrading for certificates of the fund, coded as VNI, began yesterday (London time). In the first trading hour, about 1.2 million certificates of the fund were traded at prices ranging between $1.12 and $1.06 compared to the face value of $1 each. Tags: vietnam Some of the most striking pictures of the dayclipped by: sohilSpains Queen Sofia hugs a panda at the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Centre in Sichuan Province The Formula One racer of Lewis Hamilton is reflected in the helmet of a French fireman A bust of Chinas late leader Mao Zedong in Sothebys auction house in Hong Kong after a preview of art related to the 10th anniversary of the territorys handover to China A cloud of ash and smoke spews from the Mayon volcano in the Philippines Hundreds of thousands of people in Pakistan have been hit by heavy flooding and nearly 300 people have been killed after torrential rain and high winds Sacks of rice are loaded onto a Vietnamese ship in South Korea to be sent to North Korea after the south said it would resume food aid to the north The real shame of Americaclipped by: cptenaudclippers remarks: This Government should be ashamed. But in its arrogance and greed. It will always use the troops. And then push them aside when they are no use. The connection here is that other people do your fighting for youclipped by: LanceMannionFor the last 35 years Ive watched men complain that, unlike their fathers who fought in "the Good War" against the Third Reich, they didnt get a chance to show their manly stuff, because Vietnam was a bad war, which they had no choice but to resist. And now they think they can redeem their manhood by letting another generation of young people go fight a "good war" for them in the Middle-East - which they, of course, will be fighting from the same distance they fought the "bad war" from. US Veterans High Suicide Riskclipped by: nohobot
Men who were white, better educated and older than the other men appeared to be at higher risk, as did those with a physical or emotional disability. The research, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, included men who had served in World War Two, the Vietnam war, the Korean War and the Gulf war. It said the rate of suicide among men who had taken military service was 2.13 times higher than those who had never served in the armed forces. War veterans were also twice as likely to use a firearm to kill themselves, it said. Disabled veterans, or those who had experienced emotional or psychological trauma during their service were identified as the highest risk group. Interestingly, overweight veterans were less likely to have committed suicide than those of normal weight, the study found. The World We Live Inclipped by: laceymclippers remarks: Wow. Sorry about adding to the Paris Hilton pile o crap. Exactly 35 years have passed between this photograph: And this one: What links them, besides being both taken on a June 8, is that the photographer is the same: Huynh Cong Ut, better known as Nick Ut. Does this say anything about the world we live in? I?m not sure Fishermen Dont Know the Difference Between Copper and Fiber Opticclipped by: shaineclippers remarks: This is actually a big problem everywhere. Thiefs are going to construction sites to raid copper. Air conditioning units are being taken. Locally, AT&T had to replace a big chunk of phone cable they left exposed overnight. People are getting electocuted trying to steel live wires. All kinds of mayhem is occurring due to the high price of copper. the high price of copper is leading to crime around the world as people are looking to steal anything copper and sell it. the Vietnamese government thought it would make sense to allow local fisherman to grab old Vietnam War-era undersea cable lines and resell it for profit. 27 miles of fiber optics have gone missing, and its going to cost many millions to replace. the allowance to fish up copper lines has now been rescinded MIA Vietnam Veterans remains to be brought homeclipped by: MikezAn official party will leave from Sydney for Vietnam today to bring home the remains of two Australian soldiers declared missing in action in 1965. Lance Corporal Richard Parker and Private Peter Gillson were serving in South Vietnam when they were struck by enemy machine gun fire. Their bodies were only recently discovered in a grave north of Ho Chi Minh City. Assistant Defence Minister Bruce Billson says Australia has a moral duty to see the soldiers are properly laid to rest. "They served with great gallantry. They gave their lives in the service of the nation and the nation must never forget that," he said. "Ill be joined by Private Gillsons son, who was an infant at the time his dad lost his life," he said. "Private Gillsons son didnt have a focal point for his grieving, this is a part of his life story that has been a void for 42 years, now were able to bring that aspect to a close for him." Iraq is more than just an election issue!clipped by: ouyangwulongclippers remarks: At this point we really should be asking ourselves: what is the real objective of the Bush administration? Is he actually trying to win the war? Or simply trying to keep it going until he is out of office? Isnt the troop surge perfect evidence of this? The new strategy amounts to nothing more than simply committing more men and material to the problem without a significant re-evaluation of our overall strategy, or its shortcomings. Unfortunately, the impractical Democrat bill on spending, and their quick retreat from that position also seems to suggest that many Democrats think that an ongoing war in Iraq might be a convenient election issue next year. I will vote for no candidate who plays politics while peoples lives are on the line. WASHINGTON: For me, the saddest spot in Washington is the inverted V of the black granite Vietnam wall, jutting up with the names of young men dying in a war that their leaders already knew could not be won. So many died because of ego and deceit - because LBJ and Robert McNamara wanted to save face or because Henry Kissinger wanted to protect Nixons re-election chances. Now the Bush administration finds itself at that same hour of shame. It knows the surge is not working. Iraq is in a civil war, with a gruesome bonus of terrorists mixed in. April was the worst month this year for the American military, with 104 soldiers killed, and there have been about 90 killed thus far in May. The democracy is not jelling, as Iraqi lawmakers get ready to slouch off for a two-month vacation, leaving our kids to be blown up.
Scientists find bird flu antibodyclipped by: arifsaliAntibodies that could protect against bird flu in humans have been isolated by an international team of scientists. The discovery could lead to treatments that complement flu vaccines in the event of a human epidemic of the virus. But scientists working in Switzerland, Vietnam and the United States say they have isolated antibodies that they hope could offer protection against several different strains of the virus simultaneously. Professor Antonio Lanzavecchia, at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Switzerland, says the antibodies have already proven effective in the lab and in mice and he is confident that they could be used in humans. "We in a way exploit the immune response of an individual who has been infected and has survived the infection and of course has made antibodies that neutralise these viruses," he said. Its hoped human trials of the bird flu antibody could begin soon An on-the-ground endictment of our Iraq strategey...clipped by: ouyangwulongclippers remarks: I dont want to abandon the Iraqi people. But I am a realist, not some day-dreaming jingoist who thinks this is all just one more rosy Rambo movie. The truth is that we have had a critical failure of leadership, and no one is stepping forward to fill that void. Right now we dont know who were fighting, and we dont know why they are fighting us. Until we can understand these two questions, there is no way we can begin to answer the question of how to eventually end this war. Unfortunately, no presidential candidate is even asking these questions, which to me signifies that they do not have an Iraq strategy and are not interested in developing one. Thats a shame. The Democrats who compare this war to Vietnam should remember another part of that analogy: Nixon took and held his office on promises to get us out of Vietnam, but with no new ideas about the conflict, he only got us in deeper. This could happen to the Democrats as well if they arent careful. BAGHDAD: Staff Sergeant David Safstrom does not regret his previous tours in Iraq, not even a difficult second stint when two comrades were killed while trying to capture insurgents. "In Mosul, in 2003, it felt like we were making the city a better place," he said. "There was no sectarian violence, Saddam was gone, we were tracking down the bad guys. It felt awesome." But now on his third deployment in Iraq, he is no longer a believer in the mission. The pivotal moment came, he says, this past February when soldiers killed a man setting a roadside bomb. When they searched the bombers body, they found identification showing him to be a sergeant in the Iraqi Army. "I thought, What are we doing here? Why are we still here? " said Safstrom, a member of Delta Company of the 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry, 82nd Airborne Division. "Were helping guys that are trying to kill us. We help them in the day. They turn around at night and try to kill us." Vietnam Pulloutclipped by: mushmaster25clippers remarks: When you make the choice to go into war, make sure you understand what some of the fallout could include. Terrible mistakes have been made in the past, and we should not just continue to make them. Vietnam has been over for a long time and yet I still see the vets that "broke" over there. Surreal Why the Democrats cant stop the Iraq warclipped by: gingembreclippers remarks: To finish the point: "If they are able to meet these benchmarks, the Democrats (and Bush, for that matter) could declare victory. If they dont meet these benchmarks, then the Democrats could claim that we helped the Iraqis enough that they should have been able to meet these guidelines. This would warrant the claim that the Iraqis lack the will to engage in useful nation building and thus the failure is theirs not ours.Bush cannot accept this proposal because Bush knows that the Democrats will claim forever that he and the party that supported him got us into an unwinnable war." Interesting points made re: US not being accustomed to defeat; too long to clip, go to the source " Sen. Aikman once famously said of the war in Vietnam that we should just declare that we have won and leave. Why the hell not? The lesson of Vietnam was that we shouldnt get into foreign wars in which you can not tell the enemy from the good guys and where the enemy can melt into sanctuaries in the jungle or desert sands or wherever, sanctuaries which they can use for R & R and resupply. The problem is that Iraq turned out to be not only just like Vietnam in that enemy and friend look alike and that the bad guys were able to melt into the cities and desert just as the Vietnamese melted into the jungles, but was even worse in that there was an unseen potential for serious sectarian violence. This has turned into an unwinnable war. Too bad Bush didnt order our troops to leave after he proclaimed "Mission Accomplished." That way the US could have had a victory. Democrats are trying to stop the war the proposal that we set firm benchmarks for the Iraqi government to meet on certain dates. Barry Goldwater Didnt Like No-Win Wars and Neither Should You!clipped by: monkeywrench[Video] Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. 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2007/09/24
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