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.
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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.
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.
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.
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 Saigon newspaper said.
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.
HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam said a U.S. Supreme Court decision not to hear appeals by Agent Orange victims was unfortunate for the development of bilateral ties, and said the court was denying the effects of the chemicals.(full text retrieval failed)
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, said the Tuoi Tre newspaper.
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 oil and natural gas. They straddle busy sea lanes and are rich fishing grounds.
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.
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.
HANOI (Reuters) - A 32-year-old Vietnamese man infected with H5N1 bird flu has died in a hospital in the capital, a state-run newspaper reported on Friday.(full text retrieval failed)
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 died Sunday at the age of 89.
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 in Binh Thuan province.
Yaska Saigon Nha Trang Resort & Spa- The most impressive service hotel. Sasco Tourist Service Centre- The most reliable travel agent.
The voting program “The most impressive service hotel and the most reliable travel agent” co- organized by Vietnam Tourism Association and website www.vietnamtourism.com.vn elected two above unit as winners after two and a half-month-voting process (from 15 April to 30 June 2008).
