Vietnam News

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.