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The 350 room hotel is to be built in the city centre in District 1 and is scheduled to open in 2012.

Pham Huu Khoi, who is in the advanced stages of AIDS, lays in his bed at the Mai Hoa Center for HIV and AIDS patients in the village of An Nhon Tay, 60 kilometers, northwest of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

The architectural character of Ho Chi Minh City lacks coherence, creativity and a specific identity of its own, experts said at a meeting held last week.

DAY 1: SAIGON - CAI BE - PHU AN - DONG HOA HIEP - VINH LONG - SA DEC Morning pick up from hotel around 08:00 am, departur for Cai Be.

When her husband fell ill with AIDS, doctors at the hospital turned him away, fearing they would catch the virus.

Telstra International, a leading global provider of managed network solutions, today unveiled a series of initiatives to deepen its connectivity in key Asian growth markets in Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia and Indonesia.

Tajikistan News.Net Friday 27th November, 2009 There are only 80 elephants left in the wild in Vietnam and they are in danger due to illegal hunting and deforestation, state media reported Friday.

Getting away from restaurants crowded with tourists can reveal intriguing options, including geese with shaved necks.

Vietnam's Communist-dominated parliament on Wednesday brushed aside criticism and approved building the country's first nuclear power stations, a project keenly watched by potential foreign partners.

It sounds like the plot of a tear-jerking movie a ' a nurse travelled to Vietnam to help an orphaned boy with a horrific skin disorder.

French supermajor Total announced a new discovery of light crude oil off the coast of Vung Tau in the south of Vietnam in the Mekong delta region.

SMITH LAKE -- Wayne Patton doesn't consider himself a hero, but in a dense jungle on March 26, 1970, he sure acted like one.

With Q4 2009 not even at its halfway point, the PALME team has already planned a host of activities for both exhibitors and visitors for next year's exhibition to capitalise on the present market opportunities in the Indochina.

International and domestic delegates gathered on November 19 in central Quang Tri Province to find ways of minimising accidents caused by post-war bombs and landmines and boosting clearance activities in central provinces.

An appeals court on Thursday upheld the eight year jail sentence handed down last August on the former director of a collective farm who had been named a Labor Hero by the government.

The fifth conference on cooperation in the economic corridor between China's Yunnan province and four Vietnamese localities of Hanoi, Lao Cai, Hai Phong and Quang Ninh opened in Hanoi on Friday.

When the USS Lassen made its official port call to Da Nang, Vietnam last week, it marked the first time a Vietnamese-American U.S. warship commander had returned to the Vietnamese shore.

SK Energy Co., Korea s leading refiner, has discovered an oil deposit at a jointly owned offshore field in Vietnam, the Seoul government said yesterday.

Hundreds of mostly elderly Vietnamese people surrounded San Francisco's City Hall on Sunday and Monday.

Vietnam and Finland have agreed to step up cooperation in trade and investment to increase bilateral trade turnover to US$1 billion within the next few years.

Nine fishermen returned home safely to the central province of Quang Ngai in July after their vessel was sunk by a foreign ship Indonesian authorities will ensure the safe repatriation and humane treatment of Vietnamese fishermen found in Indonesian waters, Ambassador Pitono Purnomo told Thanh Nien Weekly.

By Tran van Minh Vietnam evacuated coastal areas Monday as tropical storm Mirinae approached after battering the Philippines, where it left 20 people dead.

Construction of the second of three deep-sea ports planned for Vietnam has just begun on the central coast, a year after ground was broken for the first in the south.

The United States said on Saturday it would help transform an obscure trade pact that leaders say could become the nucleus for a massive trans-Pacific free-trade zone covering 2.6 billion people.

Tourists enjoy a sampan ride in the Mekong River Delta in Vietnam. Photograph by: John and Sandra Nowlan, Special to Canwest News Service Modern Vietnam has many attractions, but one event from its recent past still looms above all others: Don't mention the war.

"Climate change is already shattering cities across developing Asia and will be even more brutal in the future," said Kim Carstensen, leader of the WWF Global Climate Initiative.

Food, shelter and medical assistance are urgently needed by victims of Typhoon Mirinae, Vietnamese leaders said Sunday.

Police in Ho Chi Minh City have arrested a man who posed as a journalist to blackmail a customs officer, a police official said Wednesday.

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Naples attorney Tom Grogan spent between December of 1966 and December 1967 as a heavy truck driver for the U.S. Air Force in Vietnam.

Coffee exports topped 800,000 tons, worth US$1.3 billion in the first nine months of this year, the Vietnam Coffee and Cocoa Association announced at an annual meeting November 6 in Ho Chi Minh City.

The Vietnam Electricity Telecom Company on Nov. 6 launched the trans-Asia submarine cable system , making it the country's second telecom company after VNPT to operate a modern this type of optical cable network.

Japan and five Mekong nations agreed Saturday to cooperate on issues such as environmental protection and climate change in the next ten years.

Mai said Hung had not eaten and had drunk nothing but water since his conviction, and now weighed just 30kg.

Vietnama TMs doors have been propped wide open for toxic waste smugglers by lax regulations and apathy, security officials told a meeting on Thursday.

On the day his side lost the Vietnam War, Hung Ba Le fled his homeland at the age of 5 in a fishing trawler crammed with 400 refugees.

A mudslide buried thirteen people in the central province of Quang Nam Thursday night in a stern warning that the dangers of storm Mirinae have not yet receded.

" Queen Margrethe II and Prince Consort Henrik of Denmark left Hanoi on November 4 to continue their trip to other cities and provinces in the central and southern regions.

With a bevy of development projects in the works, and a strong year-end performance projected, Vietnam is carving out a spot in the emerging property market.

People ride boats to get relief from municipal workers in Ninh Hoa, Khanh Hoa province, Vietnam 04 November 2009.

The 69-year-old watchman couldn't swim so when Tropical Storm Mirinae sparked a flash flood he ran, shimmied up a tree and hung on - for three nights and two days.

THE number of people killed by floods in central Vietnam has risen to 107, as officials said the new estimate of damage caused by Mirinae was at least $US120 million .

My daughter, Carolyn, and I found ourselves in Ho Chi Minh City after a leisurely trip from Cambodia on a motorized boat.

Vietnam's President Nguyen Minh Triet , his wife Tran Thi Kim Chi pose for a photo with visiting Denmark's Queen Margrethe and her husband Prince Consort Henrik , Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary during a welcoming ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi November 2, 2009.

A motorcyclist goes through flooded water on Nguyen Thien Thuat street in Nha Trang, a central south coast city in Vietnam, Tuesday, Nov.

Herbalife Ltd. , a global nutrition and direct-selling company, announced that it has begun operations in Vietnam, making this the 71st country where the company conducts business.

Rescuers from Da Nang have saved 12 crew members of a Chinese cargo ship which was sinking off the citya s coast, local newswire Vietnamnet reported on Tuesday.

Tropical storm Mirinae killed 42 people after ploughing into central Vietnam this week and several others are missing, state media reported on Wednesday.

Typhoon Mirinae, the 11th so far this year that hit Vietnam, has killed at least 30 people and left eight missing in the central provinces of Vietnam, Vietnamese official newspaper People reported Wednesday.

Officials say the death toll from Tropical Storm Mirinae has risen to 57 in central Vietnam as authorities step up rescue and relief operations.

Tropical Storm Mirinae unleashed severe flooding in parts of central Vietnam, killing 11 people, leaving two missing and forcing families onto rooftops, disaster officials said Tuesday.

A new and powerful storm called Mirinae is threatening to enter the East Sea today with winds of up to 183km/h. Meanwhile, some provinces in the central region and Central Highlands are still suffering from the effects of recent typhoon Ketsana.

Typhoon Mirinae brought strong wind to Vietnam's central coast and heavy rain to the nearby coffee region on Monday, disrupting early harvesting, after killing at least two people in the Philippines at the weekend.

HANOI: Vietnam has started building a major US$ 3.6-billion international container port in central Khanh Hoa province to boost regional economic development, state media said yesterday.

VietNamNet Bridge a ' Mirinae, the 11 th storm in the East Sea this year, is forecasted to hit the central Vietnam from Binh Dinh to Khanh Hoa provinces on November 2. The Prime Minister sent three working groups to the central region to supervise actions against the typhoon.

A tropical storm roared toward Vietnam on Sunday after battering the Philippine capital and surrounding provinces, leaving 14 people dead in a region still waterlogged from three previous, back-to-back storms.