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When the USS Lassen made its official port call to Da Nang, Vietnam last week, it marked the first time a Vietnamese-American U.S. warship commander had returned to the Vietnamese shore.
SK Energy Co., Korea s leading refiner, has discovered an oil deposit at a jointly owned offshore field in Vietnam, the Seoul government said yesterday.
Hundreds of mostly elderly Vietnamese people surrounded San Francisco's City Hall on Sunday and Monday.
image/jpeg ( 26 ko) Vietnam and Finland have agreed to step up cooperation in trade and investment to increase bilateral trade turnover to US$1 billion within the next few years.
Nine fishermen returned home safely to the central province of Quang Ngai in July after their vessel was sunk by a foreign ship Indonesian authorities will ensure the safe repatriation and humane treatment of Vietnamese fishermen found in Indonesian waters, Ambassador Pitono Purnomo told Thanh Nien Weekly.
By Tran van Minh Vietnam evacuated coastal areas Monday as tropical storm Mirinae approached after battering the Philippines, where it left 20 people dead.
Construction of the second of three deep-sea ports planned for Vietnam has just begun on the central coast, a year after ground was broken for the first in the south.
The United States said on Saturday it would help transform an obscure trade pact that leaders say could become the nucleus for a massive trans-Pacific free-trade zone covering 2.6 billion people.
Tourists enjoy a sampan ride in the Mekong River Delta in Vietnam. Photograph by: John and Sandra Nowlan, Special to Canwest News Service Modern Vietnam has many attractions, but one event from its recent past still looms above all others: Don't mention the war.
"Climate change is already shattering cities across developing Asia and will be even more brutal in the future," said Kim Carstensen, leader of the WWF Global Climate Initiative.
Food, shelter and medical assistance are urgently needed by victims of Typhoon Mirinae, Vietnamese leaders said Sunday.
Police in Ho Chi Minh City have arrested a man who posed as a journalist to blackmail a customs officer, a police official said Wednesday.
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Naples attorney Tom Grogan spent between December of 1966 and December 1967 as a heavy truck driver for the U.S. Air Force in Vietnam.
image/jpeg ( 7 ko) Coffee exports topped 800,000 tons, worth US$1.3 billion in the first nine months of this year, the Vietnam Coffee and Cocoa Association announced at an annual meeting November 6 in Ho Chi Minh City.
image/jpeg ( 17 ko) The Vietnam Electricity Telecom Company on Nov. 6 launched the trans-Asia submarine cable system , making it the country's second telecom company after VNPT to operate a modern this type of optical cable network.
image/jpeg ( 13 ko) Japan and five Mekong nations agreed Saturday to cooperate on issues such as environmental protection and climate change in the next ten years.
Mai said Hung had not eaten and had drunk nothing but water since his conviction, and now weighed just 30kg.
Vietnama TMs doors have been propped wide open for toxic waste smugglers by lax regulations and apathy, security officials told a meeting on Thursday.
On the day his side lost the Vietnam War, Hung Ba Le fled his homeland at the age of 5 in a fishing trawler crammed with 400 refugees.