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...Vietnam drastically needs education reform," says Adam Sitkoff, director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam. "If you want to compete in the IT sector and you want to attract high-wage, high-growth jobs, you need to have a smart, well-educated workforce...
Bathed in television lights in a hallway just off of the Senate chamber, five leading Republican senators Tuesday underlined their support for President Bush's so-called surge plan in Iraq. "There is a complete commitment from the president and from the White House that General (David) Petraeus has the time and resources he needs to do the job through September and report back to us," South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham told reporters...
...upper chamber of Japan's Diet legislature goes by the august title of the House of Councilors, but it tends to attract the off-beat: baseball players, TV stars, even the occasional pro wrestler. A candidate who is the ex-president of a foreign country currently living under house arrest 11,000 miles away , however... that's a new one, even for Japanese democracy. But on Thursday morning the tiny conservative People's New Party (PNP) confirmed that Alberto Fujimori, the former president of Peru and a Japanese citizen, would campaign for the Diet under the PNP's banner...
...responded to his comment with my right hand.' CHARLES BISHOP, Alabama state senator, after punching senator Lowell Barron in the head during an argument in the legislative chamber...
...Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, frustrated by the number of amendments brought forth by critics, called to end debate. The vote failed. "There's lots of support for this bill on the outside, " Reid said before departing. "The problem was on the inside of this Senate chamber...