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HA NOI CITY TOUR (Full Day)
Warmly welcome to Ha Noi-the commercial, political, cultural heart witnessing the grandiose activities of the country. Throughout the thousand year history, marked by destruction, wars and natural calamities, Ha Noi still preserves the Old Quarter and over 600 pagodas and temples. We also find out the diversity of 54 ethnic groups in Viet Nam Ethnology Museum, which …

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China can’t use its $3.2 trillion in foreign exchange reserves to “rescue” European nations and the country “has done its part” to help the region deal with its financial crisis, Vice Foreign Minister Fu Ying said.

“Foreign reserves are not revenues,” Fu, whose portfolio is European affairs, said in a question and answer session following a speech in Beijing yesterday. “It’s not money that …

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Detroit’s finances will be given a preliminary review by state officials starting Dec. 6, Michigan Treasurer Andy Dillon said, in what may be the first step toward the appointment of an emergency manager.

The 18th-largest U.S. city may face $400 million in penalties if an emergency manager is put in charge, because of swap agreements made with two banks that helped Detroit borrow money in …

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner travels to Europe next week to press political leaders and central bankers to stem the region’s worsening debt crisis.

Geithner will continue to push the Europeans for quicker and more decisive action, a Treasury official said yesterday. The U.S. has no plans to make bilateral loans to the International Monetary Fund to help stem the crisis, said the …

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Google Inc. (GOOG), the world’s largest Internet-search company, introduced a music service that lets people buy songs through the Android Market, stepping up competition with Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s iTunes store.

Users will be able to store and stream as many as 20,000 songs on Google Music, the company said yesterday at an event in Los Angeles. Google has forged partnerships with 1,000 record …

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Applied Materials Inc. (AMAT), the largest producer of chipmaking equipment, forecast first-quarter sales and profit that fell short of analysts’ predictions, a sign that semiconductor makers are scaling back expansion plans.

Profit before certain costs will be 8 cents to 16 cents a share, the company said in a statement yesterday. Revenue will decline as much as 15 percent from the prior …

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AOL Inc. (AOL)’s Brad Garlinghouse, an executive brought on in 2009 to help revive growth at the Internet company, is stepping down, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

Garlinghouse, who has run the applications and commerce group and AOL’s Silicon Valley operations, previously worked at Yahoo! Inc. and Silver Lake Partners. Sarah Lacy, a senior editor at TechCrunch, the …

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Well we did this once before, and we're giving it some more
And it's OK to be as you are you know
It's always five on one and you notice when we're done
That nobody got hurt, you're the same as what you were you know

I've got something for starters, throw it up in the air
And I bet you don't care, we're getting louder

It sounds ok to me on the desk at ICP
Roll the tape 'cos we're rocking album …

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Honda 67
Runs like a dream after much TLC!
This is a very smooth reliable running specimen of this super classic bike!
I get looks from Vietnamese people all the time with thumbs up and smiles as I pass.
Restored a year ago, repainted and detailed this is not a perfect specimen nor is it fully original - but it runs very well and looks the bomb without compromising the classic look.
Have Papers …

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