Vietnam News

PM Nguyen Tan Dung exchanges documents with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin Deals signed for buying subs, warplanes, nuclear plants from Russia.

A Vietnamese court sentenced five Chinese men to death by firing squad for trafficking nearly 8 tons of hashish in one of the country's biggest drug hauls ever, state media reported Saturday.

In a motorcycle shop on the Tay Son Street in Vietnamese capital city of Hanoi, two young attendants were busy introducing motorcycles with the logo of Chinese brand Lifan to customers.

Intensifying a crackdown on dissent in advance of a Communist Party Congress, Vietnam has charged a prominent American-educated human rights lawyer and at least two associates with the capital crime of subversion, the official press reported Wednesday.

Vietnama s central bank will keep the benchmark interest rate at a one-year high of 8 percent in January to help strengthen the economy.

Hanoi - Vietnamese authorities have charged a well-known human rights lawyer and his associates with subversion, a charge that could carry the death penalty, state news media reported Wednesday.

Two South Korean tourists died and three people were critically injured when a taxi crashed into a crane in the central province of Khanh Hoa on Monday morning.

The failure of a new Russian intercontinental ballistic missile during testing was the cause of spectacular spiraling blue lights in the skies over northern Norway, analysts said Thursday.

The trial of a group of former students accused of running Vietnam's largest and best-known pornographic website was due to begin this week in Ho Chi Minh City, a court official said Monday.

Perth-based Atlantic has signed a memorandum of understanding to develop a 25 million tonnes per annum bauxite mine in Vietnam.

It seemed as if this village in northern Vietnam had struck gold when a Chinese and a Japanese company arrived to jointly build a coal-fired power plant.

They grow their crops on the rocks and walk several kilometers of steep, cold mountain roads to buy and sell small goods, but the Mong families on the Dong Van Plateau are some of the most hospitable in the world.

HANOI: Four people will be charged with trafficking in 400 women who were sent to Malaysia and other Asian countries.

Minister Thanh asked France to help Vietnam train its army medical personnel and sell the country helicopters, transport aircraft and other modern military equipment, Voice of Vietnam said.

A Vietnamese student was found dead in a closet in her dorm room in Singapore last Tuesday , local police said, adding she is likely to have died at least two days earlier.

In this May 20, 2007 file photo, Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh is seen upon his arrival at Suvarnabhumi international airport in Bangkok.

Russian energy giant Gazprom and Vietnam's oil and gas group Petrovietnam signed on Tuesday an agreement on establishing a joint venture.

Heavy-handed tactics by Vietnam's central government to disband followers of Thich Nhat Hanh, a prominent Buddhist monk who has called for religious reforms, illustrate Vietnam's ongoing contempt for human rights and religious freedom, Human Rights Watch said today.

International reinsurers CV Starr, AON, Chartis, Zurich and Allianz have jointly signed a US$1.5 billion contract in Ha Noi covering onshore projects and assets for the PetroVietnam Insurance Joint stock Co .

Russia-Vietnam trade will grow six-fold to $10 billion within the next few years, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said after Tuesday negotiations with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.