January 17, 2012
The state-owned Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) said despite "complications" last year, it was business as usual for it in the East Sea. Phung Dinh Thuc, the chief executive of PetroVietnam, which explores and drills oil in the sea, said at a press conference Monday that thanks to assistance from the ministries of public security, defense, [...]
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January 9, 2012
Genocidal Khmer Rouge regime was backed by the US in ‘shameful foreign policy episode’ The skulls of Khmer Rouge victims are displayed in a memorial to the genocide at the Killing Fields Museum outside of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Vietnam had saved his country in the 1970s, not invaded [...]
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January 6, 2012
An unnamed official in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang is suspected of gambling away billions of dong on Chinese chess games after being fingered by a former official who is in custody for alleged gambling. The provincial police said Wednesday that the arrested official, Nguyen Thanh Leo, former deputy chief of the provincial [...]
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January 3, 2012
Leeches have been spreading rapidly in Ho Chi Minh City ’s Hoc Mon District. Locals began breeding them based on demand from China , but dumped them in local fields and other areas after the main buyer closed shop three months ago. Vietnam’s agriculture ministry has issued a ban on the breeding of leeches [...]
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December 31, 2011
A file photo shows telecommunications equipment confiscated by Vietnamese police in raids of Chinese and Taiwanese gangs in Vietnam. Police in Ho Chi Minh City have arrested one Taiwanese and four Chinese nationals on suspicion that they cheated people in several countries and territories via the Internet and international phone calls. A report on Tuoi Tre [...]
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December 5, 2011
 Mai Phung Luu, a fisherman in the central Vietnamese province of Quang Ngai who said he has been to every nook and cranny of the Hoang Sa (Paracel) Archipelago, asserts that he will continue heading to the Hoang Sa seas without fearing anything. International experts have encouraged Vietnam to take further actions to reaffirm [...]
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December 3, 2011
A man in Ho Chi Minh City cautiously stretches a leech. Locals are worried the uncontrolled population of the blood-sucking worms could harm their children People in certain Ho Chi Minh City areas are having sleepless nights worrying about a leech invasion after an enterprise buying them to send to China moved suddenly last month, [...]
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December 2, 2011
With two silver and one bronze, Vietnam finished second behind China at the 12th World Xiangqi (Chinese chess) championships that ended in Jakarta on Saturday. Nguyen Thanh Bao won the men’s bronze medal behind Chinese champion Jiang Chuan and his compatriot Xu Yinchuan who took the second place. Another Vietnamese player Vo Minh Nhat finished in [...]
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November 19, 2011
US President Barack Obama (R) listens as Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao speaks during their meeting on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and East Asia summits in Nusa Dua, on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, on November 19. Of all the people Barack Obama thought he would be running against next [...]
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November 15, 2011
President Truong Tan Sang (L) shakes hands with his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Nov 12, 2011. Vietnamese and Chinese leaders agreed at a meeting on Saturday that the East Sea territorial disputes will be solved through peaceful talks. Vietnam’s President Truong Tan Sang and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao met in Honolulu, Hawaii, [...]
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