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.

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Vietnam: news

Typhoon Ketsana blasts Cambodia

Wednesday, September 30th 2009, 4:10
related countries: Cambodia, Philippines

After killing hundreds and displacing hundreds of thousands in the Philippines and Vietnam, Typhoon Ketsana hits Cambodia.
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Faith suspicions

Wednesday, September 30th 2009, 0:46

Religious tolerance on the wane in Vietnam
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Faith suspicions

Wednesday, September 30th 2009, 0:46

Religious tolerance on the wane in Vietnam
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Typhoon leaves 31 dead in Vietnam

Tuesday, September 29th 2009, 17:47

A powerful typhoon hits central Vietnam, causing floods and landslides which have killed at least 31 people.
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Six jailed for Vietnam baby fraud

Tuesday, September 29th 2009, 8:56

Six people are jailed in Vietnam over the fraudulent adoption of more than 300 babies, a court official says.
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Five die as Vietnam boat capsizes

Sunday, September 27th 2009, 22:44
related countries: United Kingdom

The Foreign Office confirms that two British nationals were among five people who died when a boat overturned in wild seas.
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N Korean bid for Denmark asylum

Thursday, September 24th 2009, 11:29
related countries: Denmark

Nine North Koreans enter Denmark's embassy in Vietnam's capital Hanoi to claim political asylum, reports say.
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Vietnam baby fraud trial begins

Tuesday, September 22nd 2009, 14:21

Sixteen people go on trial in Vietnam accused of fraud linked to the foreign adoption of over 260 babies, a court official says.
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Vietnam releases detained blogger

Monday, September 14th 2009, 8:34

A detained Vietnamese blogger says she was freed after promising to quit writing her sometimes anti-government blog.
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Vietnam massacre soldier 'sorry'

Saturday, August 22nd 2009, 1:42
related countries: United States

The US army officer convicted for the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam offers his first public apology.
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Vietnam species 'risk extinction'

Thursday, August 13th 2009, 15:42

Experts in Vietnam warn that the Vietnamese could be eating a number of wild species into extinction.
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China releases Vietnam fishermen

Wednesday, August 12th 2009, 6:09
related countries: China

China frees 25 Vietnamese fishermen detained months ago near disputed islands after a huge outcry in Vietnam.
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Agent Orange campaign in Vietnam

Monday, August 10th 2009, 13:44
related countries: United States

Vietnam stages "Orange Day" to raise funds for people it says were victims of the Agent Orange chemical used by the US.
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Religious row

Thursday, July 30th 2009, 0:19

Vietnam monastery dispute highlights freedom issue
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Ex-Pentagon chief McNamara dies

Monday, July 6th 2009, 15:47
related countries: United States
related places: McNamara

Former US defence chief Robert McNamara, an architect of the Vietnam war who later regretted the US role, dies at 93.
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Hawk or dove?

Monday, July 6th 2009, 14:00

The Vietnam war hate-figure who changed his mind
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Deadly floods in China, Vietnam

Monday, July 6th 2009, 3:46
related countries: China

Heavy rains in south-central China and northern Vietnam kill at least 31 people, state media say.
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US call to free Vietnamese priest

Thursday, July 2nd 2009, 3:54
related countries: United States

A bipartisan group of US senators call for the immediate release of a Vietnamese priest, Father Nguyen Van Ly, jailed for dissent.
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Hanoi protests China fishing ban

Monday, June 8th 2009, 14:53
related countries: China
related places: Hanoi

Vietnam asks China to stop preventing its fishermen from working in what Hanoi says are its territorial waters.
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Burma rejects EU, Asian pressure

Monday, May 25th 2009, 8:55
related countries: Burma

EU ministers call for change in Burma as Burma rejects strongly rejects regional criticism of its trial of Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Fake or real?

Thursday, May 21st 2009, 23:07

Vietnam art world confused by originals and copies
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In pictures

Friday, May 15th 2009, 10:10

Hugh Van Es's enduring images of the Vietnam War
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Vietnam War photographer dies

Friday, May 15th 2009, 6:39
related countries: Netherlands

Dutch photographer Hubert Van Es, who captured some of the most iconic images of the Vietnam War, dies aged 67.
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Sect appeal

Tuesday, April 7th 2009, 17:37

Falun Gong draws many new followers in Vietnam
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Vietnam bus plunge 'kills 10'

Saturday, March 14th 2009, 15:03
related countries: Russia

At least nine Russian tourists and a Vietnamese national are killed in a bus crash in southern Vietnam, state media reports.
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