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In Vietnam, a Cuban rat poison finds new market
HANOI, Vietnam - His wares banned in much of the world, the Vietnamese salesman hawking a rat poison laced with salmonella sought to prove the bait was as safe as claimed. He sliced open a packet with...
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Vietnamese police break up anti-China protest
HANOI, Vietnam - Police detained about 15 anti-China protesters Sunday during a march in the Vietnamese capital that showed the domestic pressure the government faces when dealing with Beijing's...
View ArticleVietnam trip makes new memories, stirs the old
HANOI - My mind is adrift in search of old enemies as the bus crosses Victory Bridge over the Red River. It maneuvers in the riot of trucks, horns and motor scooters toward the stilled heartbeat of Ho...
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Vietnam hunger strike tests official intimidation
HANOI, Vietnam - Cu Huy Ha Vu's books come with pages torn out by prison guards. Only some of his letters reach home. He is not allowed to access evidence from his trial or to see his wife alone.
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Ecuador says Snowden seeking asylum there
HANOI, Vietnam - Ecuador's foreign minister said Monday his country will act not on its interests but on its principles as it considers an asylum request from National Security Agency leaker Edward...
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Humerus reunion: Doc returns Vietnamese vet's arm
HANOI, Vietnam - An American doctor has arrived in Vietnam carrying an unlikely piece of luggage: the bones of an arm he amputated in 1966.
View ArticleVietnam dismisses US concerns on human rights
HANOI, Vietnam - American concerns over the arrests of dissidents and other human rights abuses in Vietnam shouldn't stand in the way of closer military and economic ties with the Southeast Asian...
View ArticleUS criticizes Vietnam new Internet control decree
HANOI, Vietnam - The United States joined global Internet giants Google and Facebook on Tuesday in criticizing a new decree in Vietnam that further curbs online free speech and forces foreign companies...
View ArticleVietnam executes 1st prisoner by lethal injection
HANOI, Vietnam - Vietnam executed its first prisoner by lethal injection on Tuesday, ending a two-year pause in capital punishment caused by difficulties in obtaining the needed chemicals, state media...
View ArticleCyr: Vietnam's tighter controls on speech draw U.S....
Last month, Vietnam's government announced further restrictions on free speech, saying that Internet content and social media should only be used to "exchange personal information" and not the...
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Vietnam offers free Marxism degrees to draw takers
HANOI, Vietnam - Market forces are working against college degrees in Marx, Lenin and Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, where the Communist government has resorted to offering free tuition to attract students.
View ArticleFreed from prison, Vietnamese dissident speaks out
HANOI, Vietnam - A young Vietnamese dissident released early from prison said Monday she will continue fighting for multiparty democracy in the Communist-ruled Southeast Asian country after the...
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Pope taps Vatican diplomat to be his top aide
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis on Saturday tapped a veteran Vatican diplomat to be his top aide, replacing the Holy See's secretary of state who in recent years increasingly became a divisive figure in a...
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US developer leaves anger behind in Vietnam
HANOI, Vietnam - As Vietnam's first property boom crashed around him, American developer Edward Chi kept promising investors their flashy apartments were on track. The businessman even told them he...
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Canadian weed finds export market in Asia
HANOI, Vietnam - For the young Vietnamese dope smokers rolling up outside a smart Hanoi cafe, local cannabis is just not good enough. As with their Adidas caps, IPhones and Sanskrit tattoos, so with...
View ArticleVietnam blogger airs news of detention on Facebook
HANOI, Vietnam - A pro-democracy blogger broke the news of his own detention and eventual release in Vietnam through Facebook, another sign of how the social network is shaking up the country's...
View ArticleVietnam POWs living in Texas recall war service
FORT WORTH, Texas - Fighter pilot Jim Latham had just marked a target of abandoned supply trucks in a heavily populated area of North Vietnam when the right wing of his aircraft tore off.
View ArticleVietnam reaffirms party role in new constitution
HANOI, Vietnam - Vietnam passed a revised constitution on Thursday that reaffirms the dominant political and economic role of the Communist Party, disappointing reform advocates who had taken advantage...
View ArticleLongtime AP photographer Fred Waters dies
ST. LOUIS - Fred Waters, a longtime Associated Press photographer who covered everything from the Korean and Vietnam wars to construction of the Gateway Arch, has died, his daughter said Thursday.
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In Vietnam, Kerry takes on a new enemy
KIEN VANG, Vietnam - Along the winding muddy waters of the Mekong Delta where he once patrolled for communist insurgents on a naval gunboat, Secretary of State John Kerry turned his sights Sunday on a...
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