Awwal 14, 1432 H/Feb 17, 2011, SPA -- A tour boat sank in Vietnam's scenic Halong Bay before dawn on Thursday killing 12 people, a government official said.
"So far the rescue team has rescued 15 people, including nine foreign tourists and six (...)
Awwal 08, 1432, Feb 11, 2011, SPA -- Vietnam on Friday devalued its currency by a record
9.3 per cent against the dollar in a bid to promote growth and narrow
its trade deficit, according to dpa.
The State Bank of Vietnam set the reference rate (...)
Awwal 08, 1432, Feb 11, 2011, SPA -- Vietnam, the world's second-largest rice exporter,
plans to stockpile 1 million tons of rice to help sustain the market
for farmers amid low prices, authorities said Friday, according to dpa.
Truong Thanh (...)
Qa'dah 22, 1431, Oct 30, 2010, SPA -- Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Saturday discussed
bilateral issues, particularly in the context of the upcoming India visit of President Barack Obama.
Singh and (...)
Qa'dah 11, 1431, Oct 19, 2010, SPA -- Efforts to find a bus with 19 people swept away by high waters were hampered by raging currents Tuesday in central Vietnam as the country's overall death toll from flooding and heavy rains reached 41, officials (...)
Qa'dah 10, 1431, Oct 18, 2010, SPA -- Surging currents sucked a bus off a flooded highway and swept away 20 of its passengers, including a girl ripped from her mother's arms, as flooding caused 30 other deaths in Vietnam and a monster Typhoon Megi (...)
Qa'dah 03, Oct 11 (SPA) - Chinese Defence Minister Liang Guanglie on Monday formally invited his U.S. counterpart, Robert Gates, to China in another step towards normalizing relations between the two nations' militaries.
Guan Youfei, deputy (...)
Qa'dah 02, 1431, Oct 10, SPA -- Defense ministers from across Asia and as far away as the United States began arriving in Vietnam's capital Sunday for a regional security meeting, starting its two-day deliberations on Monday.
The meeting of the (...)