AP - President Barack Obama is awarding a posthumous Medal of Honor to an Air Force chief master sergeant who braved enemy fire to help three wounded comrades before suffering his own fatal wounds during combat in Laos in 1968.
President Barack Obama will award the Medal of Honor, the military's highest award for bravery, to Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Richard Etchberger for his valor in saving the lives of three wounded comrades in Laos in 1968, the White House announced Friday.
It is a fairy tale romance of Olympic-sized proportions: China's 2010 gold medal pair skaters Zhao Hongbo and Shen Xue are getting married Saturday in front of thousands of fans -- on ice.
The number of reported victims of a recent mass rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo has grown by nearly a hundred over the last week, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
British broadsheet The Sunday Times has reported that Vodafone Group is preparing to sell its stake in China Mobile. According to the report, Vodafone Chief Executive Officer Vittorio Colao has approved a plan to sell its 3.2% stake in China Mobile for
Hungary is expected to become the third European Union member that can export meat to Vietnam, state secretary in charge of farm affairs at the Rural Development Ministry Gyrgy Czervn told MTI on Tuesday, after returning from a trip Vietnam and Laos.
Vodafone chief Vittorio Colao is thought to be looking for a buyer for its 3.2% stake in China Mobile, which could raise £4bn Vodafone is poised to start breaking up its sprawling portfolio of assets by selling its stake in China Mobile in a deal that
Vietnam and Laos can be absolutely proud of their traditional friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation as these ties have stood the test of time and through the ups and downs in history, said a Vietnamese senior official. National
Precy Dumlao, Opalesque Asia: All three funds from Africa-focused, Cayman-domiciled Scipion Capital Ltd., produced positive returns in July due to the weak U.S. dollar and to strengthening African currencies, said Nicolas Clavel, founder and CIO of the
The V&H Corporation of Vietnam will build the Lower Sekong Hydroelectric-Power Plant with a design capacity of 80MW in Laos. A memorandum of understanding on this project was signed in Vientiane on August 26. Signatories were Nguyen Van Minh, Deputy
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