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By LCN Staff Bristol resident, Donald Smith is in line for the most prestigious honor given to an enlisted man by the United States of America.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung yesterday hailed Vietnam's valued relationship with France and declared that the two nations are making efforts to develop their ties to the strategic partnership level in 2013.

The foundation stone on West Quay. Photo shows the Vietnamese Ambassador, Newhaven mayor, young mayor Charlotte Crookston and president of Chamber of Commerce Annie Lorys.

The massive power outage that struck in Ho Chi Minh City and Vietnam's southern provinces Wednesday was caused by the cargo of a crane truck that struck a main cable.

A man was killed and three others seriously injured in the resort town of Da Lat on Wednesday after being hit by a car driven by a senior official of the Lam Dong provincial government.

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The little female Manis javanica has been released and seems to find this habitat to her satisfaction, given her liking for ants and termites; Pangolin image ; Credit: A© CPCP/ Royal Zoological Society Tran Quang Phuong is an EDGE worker who has the Zoological Society of London to thank for his membership of an exclusive club: program manager ... (more)

The main English-language daily newspaper in Vietnam had a front-page story on Wednesday mentioning Louisiana officials and others who are participating in the Deltas 2013 Vietnam conference there this week in Ho Chi Minh City.

More than 5kg of rhino horns were seized by customs officers at the Tan Son Nhat Airport in Vietnam yesterday.

A Greater Manchester man who tried to smuggle more than 700 rare and endangered corals and clams into the UK has been jailed for six months.

At 96-and-a-half years old, Christine Jones still remembers well that day in 1972 when she learned her son was missing in action.

In June 1866, an adventurous French expedition consisting of two steam-driven gunboats, filled with liquor, flour, guns and other goods, left Saigon and headed up the Mekong River to find a new inland way to China.

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In a statement Tuesday, said the package included return economy class air ticket, airport taxes, return airport transfer, accommodation at Equatorial Hotel and daily breakfast.

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Despite the continued slowdown in the economy, Vietnam's nutrition industry saw robust growth in the last 12 months, with local consumers still rating health as a major concern behind the economy and job security, according to a recent report from market-research company Nielsen.

Louisiana officials on Monday tour the Can Gio Mangrove Forest southeast of Ho Chi Minh City.

A wholesale market in Ho Chi Minh City has banned traders from selling Chinese ginger after tests found a highly poisonous chemical in the products.

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Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Saturday launched the construction of the 140km Da Nang-Quang Ngai Expressway project, the expansion of National Highway 1A and a new tunnel through two passes near the Hai Van Tunnel, all in central provinces.