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Vietnam ratifies anti-corruption pact: UN

Vietnam ratifies anti-corruption pact: UN

AFP - Saturday, July 4

HANOI (AFP) - - Vietnam, ranked as one of the world's most corrupt countries, has ratified the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, the UN said Friday. More »

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  • Vietnam students seek help from ancient tortoise

    Vietnam students seek help from ancient tortoise

    AFP - Friday, July 3

    HANOI (AFP) - - The procession of young people continues all afternoon in the muggy heat, and so does the message from Phan Bich Hong's megaphone. More »

  • Vietnam sees alarming rise in boy births vs girls

    AP - Friday, July 3

    HANOI, Vietnam - For every 100 girls born to Vietnamese families, there are 112 boys born, a disparity in the sex ratio that has been rapidly increasing in recent years, an official said Thursday. More »

  • US senators urge Vietnam to release dissident priest

    US senators urge Vietnam to release dissident priest

    AFP - Thursday, July 2

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - - A bipartisan group of 37 US senators have sent a letter to Vietnam's president calling for the "immediate and unconditional release" of a dissident Catholic priest jailed for eight years in 2007. More »

  • 37 senators seek freedom for Vietnamese priest

    AP - Thursday, July 2

    WASHINGTON - Thirty-seven U.S. senators are asking Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet to release a dissident Roman Catholic priest serving prison and house arrest terms totaling 13 years. More »

  • Arrested Vietnam lawyer barred from practising

    Arrested Vietnam lawyer barred from practising

    AFP - Wednesday, July 1

    HANOI (AFP) - - A Vietnamese human rights lawyer arrested for "propaganda" against the state has been barred from practising his profession, a bar association official has said. More »

  • Vietnam War leftover ordnance has killed 42,000

    AP - Monday, June 29

    HANOI, Vietnam - Unexploded ordnance left over from the Vietnam War has killed more than 42,000 people in the country since the conflict ended more than three decades ago, and deadly accidents continue daily, a senior military official said Monday. More »

  • Vietnam asks China to free boat, fishermen

    Vietnam asks China to free boat, fishermen

    AFP - Saturday, June 27

    HANOI (AFP) - - Vietnam has asked China to release a fishing boat and 12 sailors detained about one week ago while fishing in waters around the Paracel archipelago. More »

  • US Vietnam veterans send home fallen comrades

    US Vietnam veterans send home fallen comrades

    AFP - Thursday, June 25

    DANANG, Vietnam (AFP) - - Standing to attention in the hot sun, a Marines baseball cap over his heart, US veteran Alan Segal watched as an honour guard carried the flag-draped coffins of his fellow servicemen onto an Air Force plane, taking them home 34 years after the Vietnam War ended. More »

  • Suspected US troop remains sent home from Vietnam

    AP - Thursday, June 25

    HANOI, Vietnam - Remains believed to be those of two American servicemen killed during the Vietnam War were placed on a plane in central Danang city on Wednesday and sent back to the United States to be identified. More »