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20/10/2010 - France - Vietnam

Vietnam airlines passsengers injured on flight to Paris

Twenty-four people on board a Vietnam Airlines flight to Paris have suffered injuries ranging from bruises to broken bones after their airplane lurched violently during flight on Wednesday, French ...

06/10/2010 - Vietnam

Vietnam flood toll rises, firework blast kills four

The death toll from floods in central Vietnam has reached at least 28, officials said Wednesday.

23/09/2010 - cambodia

Opposition leader Rainsy jailed in absentia

A court in Cambodia has sentenced exiled opposition leader, Sam Rainsy, to 10 years in jail for forging and publishing a false map of the border with Vietnam.

26/07/2010 - Vietnam - France

Vietnam snubs French general's ashes

Vietnamese authorities have objected to a proposal to scatter the ashes of a French general in Vietnam during the first visit by a French defence minister since Vietnamese independence.

US looks to Asia at As-Pac security meet
24/07/2010 - Asia Pacific

US looks to Asia at As-Pac security meet

The US has been putting Asia high on its agenda recently, and this week we saw that in action, with a focus on the Korean peninsula and Pakistan.

22/07/2010 - Vietnam

Clinton reaches out to south-east Asia

The United States will deepen its engagement with Southeast Asia, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday in Hanoi.  She reminded ministers from the ten-member Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) that in Thailand last year, the US had "recommitted" to the region.

18/06/2010 - France

French Battle of Algiers general Bigeard dies

French General Marcel Bigeard, a leading figure in France's defeat in Indochina as well as its failed campaign to hold on to Algeria, died on Friday at the age of 94.

20/05/2010 - Vietnam

Vietnam's own 'Facebook' fuels rumours of spying

Vietnam’s communist government has launched its own social-networking site following allegations of spying and restricting access to Facebook, the world’s most popular online ...

12/05/2010

Vietnam's Mark Trân and Lê Van Kiêt

The young Vietnamese director Phan Dang Di is competing at Cannes for the Caméra d'or prize in the Critics' Week selection, but there is a fine selection of other young expatriate ...

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