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North Vietnamese defense minister General Vo Nguyen Giap, left, and vice-prime minister Pham Van Dong attending the celebrations of President Ho Chi Minh's return in Hanoi in January 1955. (4 Oct) - In December 1944, in the hills of northern Vietnam, a former history teacher called Vo Nguyen Giap presided over a small military... 

The allure of junk bonds * High-yield issuance hit record in 2013 * Southeast Asian companies bet on demand for high coupons * Private banking fuels search for returns (4 Oct) - Companies in Southeast Asia are looking at Singapore as a viable alternative for high-yield bond issues in amounts that would be too small for dollar... 

Chinese tourists disembarking from a bus at the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo (AFP/ Toshifumi Kitamura) | AFP (3 Oct) - Chinese tourists should not pick their noses in public, pee in pools or steal airplane life jackets, China's image-conscious authorities have warned in a handbook in their latest effort to counter unruly...