Vietnam
New Red List aims to reduce Cambodian stolen antiquities
March 03, 2010By Robert Carmichael Cambodia recently released a publication that it hopes will help reduce the number of artifacts being stolen from sites and temples and sold on the international market. One thousand years ago, Cambodia's Angkorean empire was...
U.S. media bias revealed: Bush volunteered for the Vietnam service
August 25, 2009By Edmund Jenks An outside panel CBS brought into to get to the bottom of the so-called “Rathergate” mess says on Page #130 on an online report resource that George W. Bush had volunteered for fighter pilot service in the Viet Nam theater...
- October 06, 2007
Rain continued to inundate northern Vietnam after Typhoon Lekima passed through, causing devastating flooding. The government-run Vietnam News Service put the death toll from Lekima at three with six missing. Other news agencies said far more people...
Bird Flu Spreads to 10th Province in Vietnam
May 29, 2007Vietnamese agriculture authorities say the current outbreak of bird flu has spread to two more provinces, bringing the number of cities and provinces affected by the disease to 10. The national animal health department says about 2,000 birds were...
Vietnamese family tests negative to bird flu
January 02, 2007Hanoi (dpa) - A Vietnamese family hospitalized with suspected avian influenza last week has tested negative for the H5N1 virus, suspending fears of a return of human deaths from bird flu after a year's respite, an official said Tuesday. Do Thi Hoa...
Land disputes rise with Vietnam's booming economy
December 29, 2006Hanoi (dpa) - Police came early to cordon off the neighborhood, just in case there was trouble, and by mid-morning Friday, the roar of bulldozers on the small Hanoi street was cut with the shouts of outraged shopkeepers. "Let our people see the...
Vietnam battles three new bird flu outbreaks in poultry
December 22, 2006Hanoi (dpa) - Authorities in Vietnam have identified three new outbreaks of bird flu in the Mekong Delta, raising fears of a larger-scale return of the deadly H5N1 virus after a year of relative calm, an official said Friday. No human cases of bird...