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Six Dead After Dialysis Treatment In Vietnam

Six people are dead and 12 others have been sent for treatment after undergoing kidney dialysis at a hospital in...

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Taiwan Steel Plant Opens In Vietnam After Fish Deaths

A Taiwanese steel firm behind a toxic waste dump that killed tonnes of fish in Vietnam last year started operations on...

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Pacific Rim Nations Fight To Save TPP Trade Pact

Asia-Pacific trade ministers agreed Sunday to resuscitate a massive free trade pact thrown into doubt by a Donald...

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TPP Members Aim To Revive Deal After US Pullout

Asia-Pacific nations will try to rescue a massive trade deal scuppered by the pullout of the United States, a source...

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Vietnam Sentences Eight To Death For Heroin Smuggling

Vietnam has sentenced eight drug traffickers to death for smuggling 300 kilos (660 pounds) of heroin to China, some of...

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Vietnam Village Sealed Off As Hostage Crisis Deepens

A group of Vietnamese farmers who took more than a dozen police and officials hostage over a land dispute said Thursday...

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Paedophilia Cases Spark Social Media Outcry In Vietnam

Vietnamese cops took three months to respond seriously to allegations that an eight-year-old girl had been molested,...

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Vietnam Seizes 100 Kgs of Rhino Horn From Kenya

Vietnam police seized more than 100 kilograms of rhino horn smuggled into the country in suitcases from Kenya on...

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Japan Emperor Meets Vietnam Kin of Tokyo’s WWII Soldiers

Japan's royal couple on Thursday listened to the tearful stories of Vietnamese children who were abandoned by their...

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Kim Jong-Nam Death: Two Women Charged With Murder

Latest: Ebola fighter, Time person of the year, dies in childbirth Two women accused of killing Kim Jong-nam, the...

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Two Women Charged With Murder

Two women accused of killing Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korea's leader, have been charged with...

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Two Women To Be Charged With Kim Murder

Two women arrested over the nerve agent assassination of Kim Jong Nam are to be charged with his murder, Malaysia said...

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Two Women To Be Charged With Kim Murder

Two women will be charged with the murder of Kim Jong-Nam, who was assassinated with a lethal nerve agent at Kuala...

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Japanese Emperor Heads To Vietnam For First Time

Japan's emperor left for Vietnam on Tuesday to meet families of Japanese soldiers sent there by his father more than...

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60 Years After Japan Army Husband Fled, Vietnam War Bride Clings To…

It's been more than sixty years since Nguyen Thi Xuan's husband, a Japanese soldier, left her in Vietnam, but the...

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EU Says Trade Pact Approval Rests On Vietnam’s Rights Record

European parliamentarians warned communist Vietnam on Thursday that a failure to improve its human rights record...

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Vietnam Suspect Was Country Girl, Say Neighbours

The Vietnamese suspect in the killing of Kim Jong-Un's half-brother was renowned for her fashion, funky hairstyles and...

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The Fall of Kwame Nkrumah

Latest: GSE: Financial stocks to further drive returns On February 24, 1966, the first President of Ghana, Osagyefo Dr....

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Where Are the Vuvuzelas and Cheering Flags?

I had the privilege to visit Vietnam late 2006 and was amazed at the nationalistic instincts of the people. ...