Amazon launches e-book lending service

Amazon on Thursday launched an e-book lending service for owners of its Kindle devices, letting them borrow one digital book per month with no due date.

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B2B trading floors contrive to live on small income

Like many other businesses, B2B (business to business) electronic trade floors are facing big problems in terms of capital, revenue and labor force. Some B2B floors have to set up new strategies for their development, or they won’t survive the current difficult period.

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Discovery Dam Da in Hoa Binh

Dam Da is a favorite destination, which is located in Phu Lao commune, Lac Thuy district, Hoa Binh province. 

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Vietnamese businessmen plan to turn aviation services into “street rice”

Four helicopters have been imported to Vietnam, while the importer is considering importing six more. The importer brings helicopters to Vietnam not to serve some VIPs, but serve everybody, because it plans to make aviation services become a kind of service affordable to everyone.

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Upland Meo Vac cattle market

The Meo Vac cattle market, held every Sunday in Ha Giang province, is unique in the northern mountainous region of Vietnam.

Mong ethnic men walk their cows to market to sell.

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China to launch Shenzhou-8 spacecraft in early November

China will launch the Shenzhou-8 spacecraft in early November at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.

The graphic shows the schematic image of Chinese space station. (Xinhua/Lu Zhe)

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Google quarterly earnings top estimates

The Internet search giant Google on Thursday released its third fiscal quarter earnings report, posting strong numbers that beat analysts’ estimates.

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Steve Jobs bio expected to be Amazon’s best seller

Steve Jobs, Apple’s co-founder and former CEO, may be one of the great men who will still be influential after their deaths.

Copies of the new biography of Apple CEO Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson are displayed at a bookstore in New York October 24, 2011. The biography hit bookstores on Monday, but was released earlier-than-expected on Apple’s iBooks and Amazon.com’s Kindle late Sunday. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

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“Paranormal Activity 3″ opens to top of North America box office

“Paranormal Activity 3″ opened as the top grosser at the weekend box office in North America, raking in a whopping 54-million-U.S.-dollar receipt, while other films debuted with lackluster showings.

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Sea and island to be featured at New Year flower festival 2012

The New Year flower festival in HCM City this year will feature traditional culture, modern life and focus on sea and island topic, said the city’s Vice Chair Hua Ngoc Thuan.

Nguyen Hue flower road. (more…)