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Perth-based Atlantic has signed a memorandum of understanding to develop a 25 million tonnes per annum bauxite mine in Vietnam.

It seemed as if this village in northern Vietnam had struck gold when a Chinese and a Japanese company arrived to jointly build a coal-fired power plant.

They grow their crops on the rocks and walk several kilometers of steep, cold mountain roads to buy and sell small goods, but the Mong families on the Dong Van Plateau are some of the most hospitable in the world.

HANOI: Four people will be charged with trafficking in 400 women who were sent to Malaysia and other Asian countries.

Minister Thanh asked France to help Vietnam train its army medical personnel and sell the country helicopters, transport aircraft and other modern military equipment, Voice of Vietnam said.

A Vietnamese student was found dead in a closet in her dorm room in Singapore last Tuesday , local police said, adding she is likely to have died at least two days earlier.

In this May 20, 2007 file photo, Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh is seen upon his arrival at Suvarnabhumi international airport in Bangkok.

Russian energy giant Gazprom and Vietnam's oil and gas group Petrovietnam signed on Tuesday an agreement on establishing a joint venture.

Heavy-handed tactics by Vietnam's central government to disband followers of Thich Nhat Hanh, a prominent Buddhist monk who has called for religious reforms, illustrate Vietnam's ongoing contempt for human rights and religious freedom, Human Rights Watch said today.

International reinsurers CV Starr, AON, Chartis, Zurich and Allianz have jointly signed a US$1.5 billion contract in Ha Noi covering onshore projects and assets for the PetroVietnam Insurance Joint stock Co .

Russia-Vietnam trade will grow six-fold to $10 billion within the next few years, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said after Tuesday negotiations with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

For two hundred years Hue was the capital of a feudal dynasty that controlled most of southern Vietnam.

Mike Phillips remembers walking to his hooch from the communal hut in the smothering darkness of the Mekong River delta.

GENERAL Corp Bhd's 52 per cent unit, Low Keng Huat Ltd , has formed a joint venture company called OSC-Duxton Joint Venture Co Ltd to invest in a seafront development project in Vietnam.

San Francisco architect Mel Schenck, now settled in HCM City City, share his views on his new home.

Hanoi, Dec 9 The Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet will arrive to Rome Wednesday in his first stop over of a tour through Europe that will also include Spain and Slovakia, after a stop over in the Vatican An official communiqu emphasize that Minh Triet travelled along with First Vice Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem, the ...

Pope Benedict XVI and the president of Vietnam have held long talks at the Vatican, amid reports that the Communist country is seeking diplomatic ties with the Holy See.

Viet Nam kicked off an avian influenza survey on 12,000 over seven-year-olds in Thua Thien Hue and Tien Giang provinces, and Ha Noi yesterday, December 9. "Outbreaks of avian influenza have occurred in almost all provinces in Viet Nam, yet the frequency of human infection among exposed populations remains unknown". "Outbreaks of avian influenza ...

A large mob Thursday surrounded a pagoda for a second day where 190 monks and nuns had taken refuge, members of the group said.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked the Ministry of Information and Communications to conduct a comprehensive inspection of websites after local media sources ran stories featuring websites with large young readerships that hosted violent and pornographic information.