Babies squirmed and wailed as needles plunged into their chubby thighs at a public health clinic on the outskirts of Hanoi on Friday. ...
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Nine North Koreans who took refuge in Denmark's embassy in Hanoi nearly four weeks ago have left the mission and ...
Environmental authorities have seized two frozen tigers in Vietnam, where only a few dozen of the animals remain in the wild, state-linked media said Saturday. The tigers, weighing 40 and 90 kilograms (88 and 198 pounds) were discovered Friday in a suburban ...
With help from Beethoven and Brahms, the United States and Vietnam will engage in musical diplomacy this weekend when the New York Philharmonic debuts in the communist nation after a historic visit to Stalinist North Korea last year. The orchestra, one of ...
New York Philharmonic new music director Alan Gilbert, right, conducts Master Class during his visit to the Vietnam National Academy of Music in Hanoi, Vietnam, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009. The New York Philharmonic will makes its debut in Vietnam with concerts at ...
A group of North Korean asylum seekers who have been living at the Danish embassy in Hanoi for three weeks could leave the compound within days, a Vietnamese diplomatic source said Thursday. "If (there's) no change, they could leave the embassy in ...
A group of North Korean asylum seekers who have been living at the Danish embassy in Hanoi for three weeks could leave within days, a Vietnamese diplomatic source said Thursday. "If no change they could leave the embassy in one week," said ...
HANOI (Reuters Life!) - More than 150 restaurants have joined a campaign against the consumption of endangered wildlife in Vietnam's capital Hanoi, where animals from porcupines to pangolins are considered delicacies. WWF and TRAFFIC launched the "Green Restaurant" drive to promote establishments ...
Six dissidents went on trial in Vietnam on Thursday charged with hanging pro-democracy banners, distributing leaflets and spreading their views on the Internet. They are among nine people being tried this week for propaganda against the state under Penal Code Article 88, ...
A former teacher who said he wanted his "little voice" to help improve Vietnamese society was sentenced to three years in prison Wednesday for hanging a banner calling for political reform. Vu Van Hung is one of nine people being tried this ...
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Gold received a lukewarm reception a day after racing to a record high, with consumers in Asia more likely to be cashing in than panic buying. Profit taking -- read selling -- replaced gold purchases that in New York ...
A group of North Koreans living in a tent at the Danish embassy in Hanoi could spend two weeks there while authorities decide how to deal with their political asylum claim, a source said Friday. After entering the Danish compound Thursday morning ...
