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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 24 January 2008 South and Southeast Asian countries are grappling with new outbreaks of bird flu as winter weather sweeps across the region. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, the latest outbreaks are still confin
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 19 June 2008 Vietnamese-American groups, human rights organizations, and members of Congress are urging President Bush to make human rights in Vietnam a priority in his talks next week with visiting Vietnamese Prime Mini
By Matt Steinglass Hanoi 11 March 2008 Vietnam's financial markets have had a tumultuous year. The once high-flying stock market has fallen more than 30 percent, since January 1, and inflation has ballooned. A major investors' conference was schedule
By Matt Steinglass Hanoi 16 October 2006 Ly Tong, center, a South Vietnamese air force veteran who later became a US citizen, talks to reporters at Criminal Court in Bangkok, September 7, 2006 A small but growing number of dissidents in Vietnam is c
By Matt Steinglass Hanoi 12 October 2006 A Vietnamese delegation in Geneva is negotiating with a group of other countries to hammer out a final agreement on Vietnam's accession to the World Trade Organization. A deal could be reached in a day or two
By Matt Steinglass Hanoi 08 May 2008 There are a 100,000 fishing boats in Vietnam - too many, say conservation experts, who warn of overfishing in Vietnam's coastal waters. But Vietnamese fishermen are hurting from rising fuel prices. To help them, t
By Matt Steinglass Ho Chi Minh City 22 February 2007 The renowned Zen Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh has returned to his native Vietnam. Hanh, who has tens of thousands of followers in France and the United States, plans to conduct mass prayer ceremon
By Matt Steinglass Hanoi 28 August 2006 The government of Vietnam says it has granted amnesty to one of the country's highest profile dissidents, Pham Hong Son. Western governments and human rights organizations considered Son a political prisoner.
President Bush has met at the White House with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports the wide-ranging talks covered issues from trade to human rights. President Bush, right, meets with Vietnamese PM Nguyen Tan Dung i
A senior U.S. Navy admiral says Vietnam is considering fresh offers he made this week for joint naval exercises. The admiral made the offers during the first ever visit to Vietnam by one of the U.S. Navy's hospital ships. VOA's Al Pessin reports fro
By Stefan Bos Budapest 19 September 2009 Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung (r) and his Hungarian counterpart Gordon Bajnai inspect the honor guards in front of the Parliament building in Budapest, 18 Sep 2009 Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen
Beth Collum finds the name of a family friend, John Barovetto, who was killed in Vietnam, 31 May 2010 The U.S. National Park Service and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund say six names have been added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, bringing the t
A delegation of U.S. military veterans and their families recently traveled to Vietnam, more than 30 years after the war in the southeast Asian nation. A private organization, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, organized the trip. Many U.S. military
Infectious disease specialists from Australia, Japan and Vietnam are addressing an international seminar in Sydney. Doctors are sharing their experience of caring for patients with the H1N1 virus. Negative stain EM image of the swine influenza A/CA/
By Paula Wolfson Hanoi 17 November 2006 U.S. President George W. Bush is escorted by Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet during a welcome ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Friday, November 17, 2006 President Bush has arrived in Hanoi
By Matt Steinglass Hanoi 25 April 2008 A new report by the U.S. Embassy in Vietnam says fraud is pervasive in the Vietnamese international adoption system. Matt Steinglass reports from Hanoi. A nine-page report released Friday by the embassy charges
By Matt Steinglass Hanoi 17 January 2007 Lee Kuan Yew (file photo) Lee Kuan Yew, the former prime minister of Singapore, is visiting Vietnam. Many people in Vietnam admire Mr. Lee for building Singapore into a modern, developed nation, and they see t
Instructors from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency are in Vietnam this month training Vietnamese officers in conducting drug raids. The United States wants Vietnam's cooperation in fighting international drug traffickers. But experts say police work
By Gary Thomas Washington 08 October 2009 Glasse report Download (WM) US Soldiers in Afghanistan As the situation in Afghanistan grows more deadly and complex, the Obama administration finds itself confronted with difficult questions over strategy a
By Ron Corben Bangkok 16 October 2009 Vietnam's economic recovery from the global financial downturn has been marked by large increases in government spending. Much of the expenditure has been directed towards infrastructure. But economists say the