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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...government won't confirm whether attacks on police are on the rise, but it is concerned enough that the Ministry of Public Security held a conference late last year to address the issue. Colonel Huynh The Ky, the director of security in southern Ninh Thuan province who attended the conference, attributed the increase to "teenagers who lack proper education and are corrupted." Ky said he would like to see police provided with more sophisticated equipment in order to protect themselves, but he added that the "attitude of some police officials sometimes is not appropriate. Police have to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vietnamese Fight Back Against Cop Corruption | 3/25/2009 | See Source »

...first learned of the withdrawal when a State Department official called him for an explanation. Asked about the timing, a spokesman for the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs corrected the statement about Moratinos, noting that the minister was up to date on the resolution, but said he could not confirm or deny the Dezcallar report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain's Withdrawal from Kosovo Angers Allies | 3/24/2009 | See Source »

Published on Mar. 10 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, the study aimed to confirm data in decades-old literature that examined the relationship between blood type and a variety of cancers...

Author: By Vijay Jain, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Study Links Blood Type and Cancer | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

...would like to expand the [test subjects] into a much larger number and confirm that these results are really true,” Wolpin said. “If we could do that then we could delve into whether it is the exact ABO gene or a nearby gene...

Author: By Vijay Jain, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Study Links Blood Type and Cancer | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

Assuaging thousands of officers who are losing their jobs may take more saber-rattling in the name of national security. The earlier talk emanating from Moscow of using Latin American air bases for long range Russian bombers (which governments in the region could not confirm) may have been part of the strategy. Medvedev may also take next month's G20 Summit in London to talk tough when he meets with Barack Obama. There is much to bluster about: the proposed missile defense shield to be based in the Czech Republic and Poland; Russian assistance to Iran's nuclear program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medvedev Uses NATO Threat to Reform Military | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

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