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News: Vietnam

We have started to collect the most important news related to Vietnam in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

World news related to Vietnam – overview

Vietnam: news

Vietnam firms in 'land grabs' charge

Monday, May 13th 2013, 12:38
related countries: Cambodia Cambodia, Laos Laos

Environmental group Global Witness accuses two Vietnamese rubber companies of massive land grabs in Cambodia and Laos.
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Return to Vietnam

Saturday, April 6th 2013, 23:09

A soldier's view of the war in Vietnam
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Vietnam land eviction trial begins

Tuesday, April 2nd 2013, 8:17
related places: Haiphong

The trial of four Vietnamese farmers who used home-made bombs and shotguns to fight land eviction opens in the port city of Haiphong.
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China 'fired flares' at Vietnam boat

Wednesday, March 27th 2013, 8:07
related countries: China China

China says it fired flares, not weapons, at a Vietnamese fishing boat in the South China Sea last week, after a protest from Vietnam.
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Vietnam-China spat over sea clash

Tuesday, March 26th 2013, 12:07
related countries: China China

China defends the action of one of its patrol boats which is accused of opening fire on a Vietnamese fishing boat last week in the South China Sea.
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The ex-POW teaching Vietnam to swim

Saturday, March 23rd 2013, 0:35

The ex-POW on a mission to stop Vietnam's children drowning
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Richard Nixon's Vietnam 'treason'

Saturday, March 16th 2013, 1:09

Did Richard Nixon commit 'treason' before he was elected?
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Vietnam bus collision 'kills 11'

Friday, March 8th 2013, 5:35

Two passenger buses collide in central Vietnam, leaving at least 11 people dead and dozens of others injured, police say.
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Hanoi bans short, fat traffic police

Wednesday, March 6th 2013, 15:34
related places: Hanoi

Vietnam takes short, obese and abusive traffic police off the streets of Hanoi to improve the force's tarnished public image, reports say.
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Vietnam jails 22 for subversion

Monday, February 4th 2013, 11:46
related places: Phu Yen

A court in Vietnam's Phu Yen province jails 22 people for trying to overthrow the government, the latest move in a crackdown on dissent.
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Subversion trial opens in Vietnam

Monday, January 28th 2013, 13:42
related places: Phu Yen

The trial of 22 people charged with attempting to overthrow the government has begun in the central Vietnamese province of Phu Yen, officials say.
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Vietnam to make execution poison

Wednesday, January 23rd 2013, 12:47

Vietnam is to begin producing home-grown poison for use in executions, after overseas producers refused to export drugs for use in lethal injections.
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Reprieve for Vietnam bear centre

Wednesday, January 16th 2013, 15:02

Vietnam abandons plans to close a bear sanctuary at the heart of a land dispute in a national park.
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Hanoi admits online interference

Saturday, January 12th 2013, 0:50

Vietnamese propaganda officials admit deploying people to engage in online discussions supporting the Communist Party's policies.
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Vietnam convicts 'plot' activists

Wednesday, January 9th 2013, 14:28

A court in Vietnam convicts 14 political activists, most of them Catholics, of plotting to overthrow the communist state.
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Vietnam subversion trial starts

Tuesday, January 8th 2013, 12:42
related countries: China China

Fourteen mostly Catholic activists go on trial in Vietnam accused of plotting to overthrow the government and taking part in anti-China protests.
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Starbucks to open shop in Vietnam

Thursday, January 3rd 2013, 5:39

Starbucks, the world's biggest coffee-shop company, is set to open its first store in Vietnam next month as it continues expanding in Asia.
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Vietnam bloggers' appeal rejected

Friday, December 28th 2012, 14:10

An appeals court in Vietnam upholds the sentences of two prominent bloggers jailed in September for "anti-state propaganda", a lawyer tells the BBC.
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Remembering the Christmas bombing of Hanoi

Monday, December 24th 2012, 23:57
related countries: United States United States
related places: Hanoi, Christmas

The massive US assault that may have helped end the Vietnam war
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