25 January 2012, 9:51 pm
HANOI (AFP) - From irreverent cartoons to "depraved" short stories, Vietnam's pop culture is attracting the attention of print censors who experts say are struggling to accept an increasingly brash literary scene.... Read More »
24 January 2012, 11:50 pm
HANOI - Buffeted by persistent double-digit inflation, slowing economic growth and rising worker unrest, Vietnam's economic reforms are at risk of coming undone.... Read More »
19 January 2012, 5:31 pm
HANOI : Vietnam on Thursday reported its first human death from bird flu in nearly two years, as the virus also claimed the life of a toddler in Cambodia.... Read More »
19 January 2012, 8:01 am
HANOI, Vietnam—Vietnam on Thursday confirmed its first human death from bird flu in nearly two years, a day after neighboring Cambodia also logged its first fatality this year as new cases of the H5N1 virus are reported in Asia and the Middle East.... Read More »
19 January 2012, 2:42 am
HANOI, VIETNAM (AP) - Vietnam has recorded its first human bird flu death in nearly two years, and although the victim worked at a duck farm the H5N1 virus has yet to be found in poultry there, officials said Thursday. Test results confirmed that an 18-year-old man died of the disease ...... Read More »
18 January 2012, 9:05 pm
HANOI, Vietnam - Vietnam on Thursday confirmed its first human death from bird flu in nearly two years, a day after neighbouring Cambodia also logged its first fatality this year as new cases of the H5N1 virus are reported in Asia and the Middle East.... Read More »
17 January 2012, 3:04 am
Vietnam's prime minister called for an investigation Tuesday into a guerrilla-style clash between authorities and farmers who tried to fend off a land eviction by laying homemade land mines and firing improvised shotguns.... Read More »
16 January 2012, 6:30 pm
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — State media say Vietnam has launched its first domestically made warship equipped with artillery and missile systems. Online newspaper VnExpress says the ship took a military-run company two years to build. It was delivered to the navy on Monday. It did not describe the shipâ... Read More »
15 January 2012, 7:30 pm
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnamese authorities have released a French-Vietnamese dissident after he spent 17 months in jail after being convicted of attempting to overthrow the government. Lawyer Tran Vu Hai said Monday that 56-year-old Pham Minh Hoang was freed from jail Friday and will now serve t... Read More »
9 January 2012, 11:43 pm
HANOI, Vietnam — Police have confiscated the carcass of an endangered wild tiger from a Hanoi restaurant where it was being boiled down to make an expensive traditional medicine. The Tuoi Tre newspaper said restaurant owner Nguyen Thi Thanh was rendering the animal to make tiger bone paste — whi... Read More »
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