November 5, 2011
Vietnamese Deputy Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son (L) shakes hands with the UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister of State Jeremy Browne on Oct 26, 2011. Vietnam and the UK found agreement on several regional and international issues that they discussed during their first strategic dialogue in London. A joint communiqué was issued following completion of [...]
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September 25, 2011
Vietnam Deputy Defense Minister Nguyen Chi Vinh (R) and US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Robert Scher sign MOU on defense cooperation Monday in Washington D.C The defense ministries of Vietnam and the US have agreed to promote cooperation in five priority fields, including sea security, according to the Vietnam News Agency. They signed a [...]
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August 14, 2011
Activists worry multinational corporations that produced Agent Orange could perpetrate another ecological disaster through genetically modified organisms Agent Orange victims Chu Quang Duc (C), 27 years old, and his father Chu Quang Chien (R) who served in Vietnam’s central Quang Nam – Da Nang area from 1971-1975 during the Vietnam War, attend a computer [...]
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June 1, 2011
A panel of foreign and local experts have called for improved transparency and accountability in Vietnam’s gas and mining sector A copper mine run by the Vietnam Coal and Mineral Industries Group in the north-western province of Lao Cai. An anti-corruption dialogue on May 25 called for improved transparency and accountability in Vietnam’s gas [...]
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May 31, 2011
South African army soldiers patrol at Matiga military airport in Tripoli, as part of a security delegation accompanying South African President Jacob Zuma, who held talks on ending the conflict in Libya. NATO pounded Libya’s capital on Tuesday, only hours after South Africa’s president left following talks that produced only a commitment to a peace [...]
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February 23, 2011
Thousands of supporters of Bahrain’s Shiite-led opposition demonstrate in Pearl Square in Manama calling for the government’s downfall. Tens of thousands of supporters of Bahrain’s Shiite-led opposition poured into Manama’s Pearl Square calling for the government’s downfall in the largest rally in more than a week of protests. The capital’s streets were clogged as protesters [...]
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January 15, 2011
A Vietnamese paratrooper Regiment C16 at a practice session on September 17, 2010. Regional defense experts argue that Vietnam’s recent weapons upgrades do not demonstrate participation in a regional arms race. Last year, Vietnam acquired new frigates, multi-role jet fighters, Kilo-class submarines and anti-shipping missiles. Foreign experts argue that the move is purely defensive. “Vietnam [...]
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December 24, 2010
Swedish Ambassador Staffan Herrström (R) talks with Thanh Nien Editor-in-Chief Nguyen Quang Thong during a visit to the newspaper’s editorial office last month. Sweden has announced that is would close its embassy in Vietnam next year because of a budget cut imposed on the current government by the Riksdag, the Swedish parliament. Swedish Minister for [...]
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November 27, 2010
A scavenger of recyclable items wanders through an industrial zone in central Vietnam. A recent foreign-backed study of Vietnam’s land system found what the people already know: it’s a disaster. A recent study has found that land management corruption has become a “source of social instability” in Vietnam. Experts warn that corruption within Vietnam’s land [...]
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December 12, 2009
Stephen Bosworth, U.S. special envoy to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), said Thursday that the U.S. and the DPRK reached a common understanding on the need for resuming the six-party talks. Stephen Bosworth, U.S. special envoy to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), addresses a press conference in Seoul, capital of South [...]
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