Posts Tagged ‘ Vietnam News ’

Vietnam to resume sending workers to Libya: report 

January 16, 2012
Vietnam to resume sending workers to Libya: report 

A file photo from VnExpress shows Vietnamese workers returning from Libya early last year Vietnamese workers will soon return to Libya, after a turmoil last year which prompted the Vietnamese government to bring more than 10,000 workers home. A number of Turkish contractors in Libya have pledged to re-recruit Vietnamese workers over the next six months, [...]

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Vietnamese finish second in Korean pop contest 

December 19, 2011
Vietnamese finish second in Korean pop contest 

Four members of Vietnam’s Tuxedo and Ao Dai received their second award at the contest in Korea last week. Vietnamese band Tuxedo and Ao Dai won the second prize at the World K-Pop Singing Contest held in Korea last week, Vietnam News Agency reported. The band was formed by putting together four members from the [...]

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Vietnam, China agree to solve sea issue with peaceful talks 

November 15, 2011
Vietnam, China agree to solve sea issue with peaceful talks 

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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Vietnam, US ink deal to boost defense ties 

September 25, 2011
Vietnam, US ink deal to boost defense ties 

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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Vietnam, China to try to hasten talks on sea dispute 

September 15, 2011
Vietnam, China to try to hasten talks on sea dispute 

Vietnam's Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong (R) and Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo at a meeting in Hanoi Wednesday China and Vietnam have agreed to speed up negotiations towards ending a long-running spat over the East Sea, media in both countries reported on Thursday, as Beijing continued a campaign to defuse tension. Both countries, [...]

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Vietnam to start alumina production in Nov: Vinacomin 

September 9, 2011
Vietnam to start alumina production in Nov: Vinacomin 

  Vietnam’s first alumina refinery would start producing in November, after several delays, and sell an expected 50,000 tons this year directly to clients without any tenders, the company operating the plant said on Friday. Alumina output at the $460 million Tan Rai plant would rise to 350,000 tons next year, around half its projected [...]

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East Sea issue in the spotlight 

May 31, 2011
East Sea issue in the spotlight 

This photo shows a part of the Truong Sa (Spratly) District in Truong Sa archipelago. On March 23, 2011, Xinhua, the official news agency of China, published an article titled "The Nanhai sea dispute from the perspective of the international law of the sea" by scholars He Jian and Wang Ao from the Xiang Tan [...]

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Q-Mobile sets ambitious 2011 target 

February 9, 2011
Q-Mobile sets ambitious 2011 target 

A Q-Mobile booth at a telecommunications exhibition. Local mobile phone maker ABTel has said it plans to overtake Nokia and achieve local market domination this year, the Vietnam News Agency reports. Nokia, the world’s biggest cellphone maker, now leads the Vietnamese market with a share of between between 48 and 52 percent. ABTel’s brand Q-Mobile [...]

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Vietnam reburies mummified corpse of ancient king

January 27, 2010
Vietnam reburies mummified corpse of ancient king

Soldiers carry the coffin containing the mummified corpse of Vietnamese King Le Du Tong The mummified corpse of a Vietnamese king who died hundreds of years ago was reburied on Monday, half a century after farmers accidentally dug it up. Local television showed a red cloth, decorated with dragons, being draped over the coffin at [...]

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Bus plows crowd at Da Nang death trap; one dead

January 21, 2010
Bus plows crowd at Da Nang death trap; one dead

A bus killed one and sent eight more to the hospital when it spun out and ran through a crowd of people on a road in Da Nang that has seen 9 deaths and 40 injuries in only two years. Investigators blamed the accident, one of three at the spot early Tuesday morning, on mud [...]

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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...