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...couple's agency, Nam Nam Buk Nyo, a name taken from a traditional Korean proverb saying that handsome men are from the South and beautiful women live in the North, has matched 250 women like Kang with South Korean husbands in four years. Hong says there are at least nine other similar agencies operating around the country, most of them established in 2008, and he estimates about 1,000 similar matches have been made...
...Vietnamese government's investment arm, the State Capital Investment Corporation, owns 70% of Jetstar Pacific and Qantas owns 27%, until 2007 the airline was fully owned by the Vietnamese government. In other words, Nam, Freeman and Marsilli lost the state a lot of money after investing in fuel futures when oil prices were escalating in 2008, eventually peaking at $147 a barrel in July, before oil prices slumped to a low of just over $30 in December 2008. But Jetstar Pacific wasn't alone in its fuel-hedging bets; other regional airlines such as Cathay Pacific and Singapore airlines also...
...News of the pair's interrogation and travel-ban was released last week, and Qantas says Vietnam's investigation into Jetstar Pacific could last months, leaving the two Qantas employees stuck in Vietnam indefinitely. One Vietnamese national, the former Jetstar Pacific general director Luong Hoai Nam, was also arrested for "irresponsibility causing serious consequences," according to state media...
...needs of female vets who have been abused during military service, will be demonized because of tales of crime and may face discrimination, especially in a tight job market. This could be a good follow-up article. Mark Waddell, the vet you profiled, is still a leader. As a 'Nam vet with PTSD and a veterans' services representative, I think Waddell and his wife are doing more good than they'll ever know...
...finding those logs is going to be difficult now that some of the wood is already on its way to becoming tables and chairs destined for foreign markets. It was a free-for-all, says Do Van Dong, who lives not far from the Vu Gia river in Quang Nam. Thousands of residents converged on the logjam at the Quang Hue bridge, he says. Despite the churning currents, people waded in to salvage the wood. Groups of men carried trees into town and sold them that same day. "Some even brought power saws to the site and cut the logs...