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Party chief laments eroding morality 

January 6, 2012
Party chief laments eroding morality 

  Warns the lack of rectitude among Party members threatens political system Pedestrians and traffic pass down a street which is decorated with national flags and banners celebrating the Party Congress in Hanoi last January. Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has admitted that morality is eroding among Party members. Vietnam’s top leader has admitted [...]

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Vietnam, China agree to boost ties 

December 25, 2011
Vietnam, China agree to boost ties 

China’s Vice President Xi Jinping (L) is greeted by Vietnam’s Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan (R) and Party’s Senior Politburo member Le Hong Anh (C) upon his arrival at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi December 21. Vietnam and China agreed to comprehensively boost strategic cooperation during Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping’s three-day visit to Hanoi [...]

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Canine avengers 

July 16, 2011
Canine avengers 

  Vigilante mobs in northern Vietnam are beating and murdering men who attempt to profit by kidnapping their dogs and selling them to butchers. The charred remains of a motorbike that belonged to a slain dog thief in Nghe An Province. Rampant dog theft has lead to widespread vigilante justice in the north-central province. Nguyen [...]

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How US spies found bin Laden’s hideout 

May 3, 2011
How US spies found bin Laden’s hideout 

Pakistani army soldiers leave the area near the hideout of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden after a ground operation by US Special Forces in Abbottabad on May 2, 2011. It took years of painstaking intelligence analysis to find Osama bin Laden in Pakistan — but only three words “It’s a go” uttered by President Barack [...]

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Six cops suspended as clip of nude sex workers hits worldwide web 

November 27, 2010
Six cops suspended as clip of nude sex workers hits worldwide web 

A snapshot from an online clip filming Quang Ninh's police's prostitution raid which has provoked public's protests and experts' concerns. Police in Quang Ninh Province have promised to investigate a case involving six policemen who have been suspended for their alleged involvement in spreading a clip of two nude sex workers on the Internet recently. [...]

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Obama summons intel chiefs for security talks

January 1, 2010
Obama summons intel chiefs for security talks

U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington December 14, 2009 President Barack Obama on Thursday summoned U.S. intelligence chiefs to a meeting next week at the White House to discuss how to prevent a repeat of the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner on December 25. Seeking to quell criticism of his administration over an intelligence [...]

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Vietnam modernizing military for self-defense, says general

December 29, 2009
Vietnam modernizing military for self-defense, says general

Vietnamese navy vessels on an exercise in the East Sea. General Le Van Dung rules out an arms race or abandonment of the country’s traditional peaceful diplomacy. Vietnam’s efforts to bolster its military strength go hand in hand with the peaceful diplomatic approach it consistently adopts for resolving international disputes, a senior military official has [...]

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Vietnam-US relations develop in various fields

December 29, 2009
Vietnam-US relations develop in various fields

The Voice of Vietnam interviewed the Vietnamese Ambassador to the US, Le Cong Phung, on the efficiency of relations between Vietnam and the US in 2009 and future cooperation. Vietnamese Ambassador to the US Le Cong Phung,In 2009, Vietnam and the US deepened their relationship in different areas such as economics, politics, trade, education and [...]

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Giant flower Buddha stands above Da Lat flower festival

December 25, 2009
Giant flower Buddha stands above Da Lat flower festival

Around 600 Buddhists and 30 artists are working at the Linh Phuoc pagoda in Da Lat to complete an 18m flower Buddha statue for the Da Lat Flower Festival in early January 2010.  Linh Phuoc pagoda’s senior monk Thich Tam Vi said they will use 600,000 specially preserved flowers (over 1.5 tonnes) to make the [...]

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Swimming with shark

December 6, 2009
Swimming with shark

LookAtVietnam – Predatory stock ‘sharks’ hunt in packs, grouping together to invest big money small-time companies to boost share prices and feast on profits. Big-time investment “teams” whose members are known as “sharks” have been fixing stock prices by investing via several different accounts to manipulate market sentiment, a Thanh Nien investigation has found. Though [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...