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Tropical storm Mirinae leaves four dead in Vietnam

AFP Asian Edition yesterday

Tropical storm Mirinae killed four people and left two missing after slamming into coastal Vietnam, the national flood and storm control committee said Tuesday. Mirinae, which battered the storm-weary Philippines as a typhoon at the weekend, was downgraded to a tropical depression ...

Vietnam reports bird flu outbreak among poultry

AFP Asian Edition 2 days ago

Vietnam has announced the reemergence of bird flu among its poultry after six months with no reported outbreaks of the H5N1 virus, the country's animal health department said. The infected poultry were reported in nine farming households in the northern mountainous Dien ...

4th typhoon leaves 20 dead in Philippines

AP News 3 days ago

4th typhoon leaves 20 dead in Philippines, then heads toward Vietnam as tropical storm A tropical storm roared toward Vietnam on Sunday after battering the Philippine capital and surrounding provinces, leaving 20 people dead in a region still soggy from three recent ...

Former refugee to return to Vietnam as US Navy officer

AFP Global Edition 4 days ago

A US military officer who fled Vietnam as a boy and was picked up by an American ship will soon visit the country in command of a destroyer, the US Navy said on Friday. Born in the Vietnamese city of Hue, Commander ...

Vietnam ready to host its biggest sporting event

AFP Global Edition 6 days ago

Vietnam hosts its biggest-ever sporting event from Friday when thousands of regional athletes gather for the third Asian Indoor Games, and it has high hopes of putting on a successful show. Despite the challenge of finding sponsors during the global financial crisis, ...

Asiad: Vietnam ready to host its biggest sporting event

AFP Global Edition 6 days ago

Vietnam hosts its biggest-ever sporting event from Friday when thousands of regional athletes gather for the third Asian Indoor Games, and it has high hopes of putting on a successful show. Despite the challenge of finding sponsors during the global financial crisis, ...

Samsung opens Vietnam mobile phone plant

AFP Asian Edition 6 days ago

A new Vietnam mobile phone plant opened by South Korea's Samsung Electronics aims to generate an export turnover of five billion dollars annually by 2010, the Vietnamese government said Thursday. Samsung plans to initially produce 1.5 million handsets a month in its ...

First lady hears cheers before World Series opener

AP Features 6 days ago

First lady Michelle Obama received a warm welcome from Yankees fans and a kiss from the captain before Game 1 of the World Series on Wednesday night. Mrs. Obama and Jill Biden, wife of the vice president, escorted Hall of Fame catcher ...

Vietnam estimates trade deficit at 8.78 bln dlrs

AFP Asian Edition 8 days ago

Vietnam on Tuesday estimated its trade deficit for the first ten months had almost halved from the same period last year. Hanoi said the shortfall between exports and imports was 8.78 billion dollars from January to the end of October, compared with ...

Correction: Obama-Presidential Unit Citation story

AP News 8 days ago

Correction: Obama-Presidential Unit Citation story In an Oct. 20 story about President Barack Obama awarding an Army squadron the military's highest unit honor for its Vietnam War rescue of fellow soldiers, The Associated Press misidentified the unit. It was Troop A, 1st ...

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