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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.

PTT Plc Investment thesis At the group analyst meeting, we feel that the firm was more optimistic that the govt will increase the cooking gas price than it was three months ago.

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.

In collaboration with major labels and over 75 independents, ZUUS will give music fans an expertly curated, lean-back viewing experience.

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.

Round-table talks with inhabitants of the DPRK were held at the Koryo Compatriots House on Friday upon their return home from south Korea to which they had been taken due to south Korean puppet agents' sinister plots and allurement and appeasement.

Moscow, May 19 : A Russian tourist died in Vietnam after a fight with a compatriot and fellow-traveller in the coastal city of Nha Trang.

Hanoi, May 19 : Vietnam Sunday successfully conducted test flights of six indigenously-made unmanned aerial vehicles, a media report said.

Limitless has signed a new joint venture agreement for the construction of Halong Star, its mixed-use residential and tourism project in Vietnam.

Intrepid My Adventure Store has an eight-day tour of Tuscany including five nights' hotel accommodation, two nights on a farm estate, seven breakfasts, three lunches, three dinners, transport and sightseeing on tour, and an expert English-speaking tour leader from $3490 a person, twin share.

New Hampshire police say a motorist who presented herself as a good Samaritan who drove an injured pedestrian to the hospital is the same person who caused the injuries.

Volunteers at a bus station in Ho Chi Minh City hold banners offering free job search guidance to youngsters coming in from other provinces Enterprises in Ho Chi Minh City are short of manual labor as the unskilled workforce has largely become skilled in search of well-paid jobs in a country with a per capital income of US$1,540. HCMC this month ... (more)

A Russian tourist allegedly cut his friend's throat with a broken bottle during a quarrel they had on Nha Trang beach early Thursday morning, Tuoi Tre newspaper reported.

US veteran Mike Kerber, now a peace activist in Chicago, pictured here at the War Remnants Museum, Ho Chi Minh City, operated large artillery like this in the A Shau Valley As we made our way in the darkness of the Vinh Moc tunnels, I ran my hands over the well-worn rock of the narrow passageway.