Vietnam offers condolences for AP war correspondent

6 February 2012, 8:08 pm

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam has extended its condolences for late Associated Press correspondent George Esper, who covered both war and peace in the country he came to love. The Foreign Ministry delivered a letter to the AP’s Hanoi bureau Monday remembering a “kind and caring gentleman and f... Read More »

Vietnam Staff Hanoi Office

6 February 2012, 8:59 am

Minh Chau Nguyen became the Country Director for East Meets West in March 2009. Her previous positions at EMW include a board member and Chief Strategy Officer.... Read More »

Vietnam to auction 7.8 trillion dong bonds this week

6 February 2012, 6:33 am

HANOI : Vietnam 's Hanoi stock exchange will hold three auctions this week to sell bonds worth a combined 7.8 trillion dong ($373.2 million) for two policy lending banks and Vietnam Expressway Corp, the exchange said.... Read More »

Vietnam gives condolences for AP war correspondent

6 February 2012, 3:02 am

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam has extended its condolences for late Associated Press correspondent George Esper, who covered both war and peace in the country he came to love. The Foreign Ministry delivered a letter to the AP’s Hanoi bureau Monday remembering a “kind and caring gentleman and f... Read More »

Vietnam Hanoi Uncovers 117 Food Safety Violation Cases on Tet Holiday

5 February 2012, 9:12 pm

Market regulators in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi found 117 cases violating the regulations on food hygiene and safety on the occasion of Lunar New Year or Tet Holiday.... Read More »

Vietnam reports 2nd bird flu death in a month

2 February 2012, 11:18 am

HANOI, VIETNAM (AP) - A Vietnamese official on Thursday confirmed the country's second human death from bird flu in less than a month, after it went nearly two years with no reported fatalities. Test results confirm that a 26-year-old woman died of the disease Jan. 28 after being hospitalized in... Read More »

Vietnam's awakening youth circumvent censorship

2 February 2012, 12:07 am

MIKE IVES Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam When student Nguyen Hong Nhung saw "Killer with a Festering Head" on someone's smartphone, she wanted the banned comic book too. Though Vietnam's censors had yanked it from stores, finding a digital copy wasn't exactly hard. Nhung simply Googled ... Read More »

Vietnam’s tech-savvy youngsters take on the censors

2 February 2012, 12:03 am

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — When student Nguyen Hong Nhung saw “Killer with a Festering Head” on someone’s smartphone, she wanted the banned comic book too. Though Vietnam’s censors had yanked it from stores, finding a digital copy wasn’t exactly hard. Nhung simply Googled the title, and with ... Read More »

Comic book ban highlights Vietnam's censorship struggle; youth find ways to circumvent control

1 February 2012, 11:51 pm

HANOI, Vietnam - When student Nguyen Hong Nhung saw "Killer with a Festering Head" on someone's smartphone, she wanted the banned comic book too. Though Vietnam's censors had yanked it from stores, finding a digital copy wasn't exactly hard.... Read More »

Vietnam Q1 rice exports seen down 39pc y/y

29 January 2012, 9:18 pm

HANOI : Vietnam 's rice exports in the first quarter of 2012 are expected to fall 39 percent from a year ago to around 1.1 million tonnes due to fierce competition from Indian and other Asian grains in its major markets, a state-run newspaper said on Monday.... Read More »