AP – Friday, March 27 HANOI, Vietnam – Eight Vietnamese Roman Catholics plan to ask an appeals court Friday to overturn their convictions for disturbing public order and damaging property during a series of demonstrations last year to demand the return of former church lands. The defendants were convicted and given light sentences in December. [...]

AFP – Monday, March 23 HANOI (AFP) – – A Vietnamese man and his wife were arrested in Ho Chi Minh City for running an illegal marriage brokerage for South Korean men looking for Vietnamese brides, state media reported Monday. Pham Van Thang and his wife, Truong Thi Thuy Diem, were arrested when police raided [...]

AFP – Saturday, March 21 HANOI (AFP) – – Vietnam and China have officially agreed to set up a hotline between leaders of the two countries, which fought a war in 1979, Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry said Friday. The agreement was signed after a meeting between visiting Chinese State Councillor Dai Bingguo and Vietnam’s Foreign Minister [...]

AFP – Friday, March 20 HANOI (AFP) – – A three-year-old Vietnamese boy died Thursday from bird flu, a doctor in southern Ho Chi Minh City said, becoming the country’s third human victim of the disease this year. Tran Cong Phuc was admitted to the city’s Tropical Diseases Institute on Monday where he tested positive [...]

AP – Friday, March 20 HANOI, Vietnam – Health officials say a Vietnamese boy has died of the H5N1 virus. It is the country’s third human bird-flu death this year. Nguyen Huy Nga of Vietnam’s Ministry of Health said the 3-year-old boy died Thursday at a hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. Provincial health director [...]

AP – Saturday, March 7 HANOI, Vietnam – Authorities in northern Vietnam have confiscated nearly seven tons of elephant tusks smuggled from Africa in the country’s biggest-ever such seizure, state media reported Saturday. Customs officials in the northern port city of Haiphong on Friday discovered the tusks in a container shipped from Tanzania, the Liberated [...]

AFP – Wednesday, February 25 HANOI (AFP) – – UN agencies called on Tuesday for Vietnam to be vigilant in fighting bird flu after three new human cases were discovered this year, including one woman who died. The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said Vietnam, which has seen [...]

HANOI( Reuters) – Vietnam pronounced a U.S. Supreme Justice preference not to listen to appeals by Agent Orange victims was hapless for a growth of shared ties, as well as pronounced a justice was denying a goods of a chemicals.( full content retrieval unsuccessful)

AFP – Saturday, March 7 HANOI (AFP) – – Vietnam customs officials have uncovered up to five tonnes of elephant tusks smuggled in from Tanzania, state media said Saturday. The tusks were found Friday hidden in around 114 boxes of plastic waste after being transported from Africa through Malaysia to Vietnam’s northern Hai Phong port, [...]

AP – Friday, March 13 HANOI, Vietnam – Vietnam has protested a Chinese tourist company’s plan to begin tourist trips to the disputed Paracel archipelago in the South China Sea. China and Vietnam have argued for years over the Paracels and the Spratlys islands. Largely uninhabited, the island chains are believed to be rich in [...]

AP – Friday, February 27 HANOI, Vietnam – A health official says a 32-year-old man from northern Vietnam has died of bird flu, in the country’s second death from the disease this year. The man was from the northern province of Ninh Binh and died Wednesday at a disease clinic in Hanoi. Vu Van Can, [...]

AFP – Tuesday, March 3 HANOI (AFP) – – A Vietnamese human rights lawyer defending Catholics in a land dispute with the communist authorities was taken in by police for questioning Tuesday, he told AFP, days after they raided his office. Lawyer Le Tran Luat said he had been taken to a police station in [...]

HANOI( Reuters) – The 32-year-old Vietnamese male putrescent with H5N1 bird influenza has died in the sanatorium in the collateral, the state-run journal reported upon Friday.( full content retrieval unsuccessful)

AP – Thursday, February 26 HANOI, Vietnam – Thousands of people attended funeral services Thursday for Cardinal Paul Joseph Pham Dinh Tung, the retired archbishop of Hanoi and advocate for restoring ties between Vietnam and the Vatican. Tung’s funeral was held at St. Joseph’s Cathedral. He was to be buried on the church grounds. Tung [...]

AP – Sunday, March 15 HANOI, Vietnam – Police say a speeding bus fell off a cliff in southern Vietnam, killing at least 10 people. Nine were Russian tourists. Eight people died instantly, and two died later in the hospital. Fourteen others remain hospitalized, some in critical condition, said Nguyen Van Lam, a police officer [...]