Bird flu breaks out AGIAN in Vietnam

http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=122965

Hanoi (dpa) – Vietnam has detected a new bird flu outbreak that has killed hundreds of ducks in a central province, the second outbreak found this month in the country, officials said Thursday.
More than 290 ducks were found dead at a small farm in Quang Tri province this month [...]

Vietnam grants amnesty to prisoners

http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20070030375&ch=10/23/2007%202:34:00%20PM

Associated Press

Tuesday, October 23, 2007 (Vietnam)

Vietnam will release more than 8,000 prisoners as part of a regular presidential amnesty, officials said on Tuesday.
Those to be released include 13 foreigners convicted of various crimes, including drug trafficking, human trafficking and fraud.
Among them were eight Chinese citizens, two Singaporeans, one Laotian, one Malaysian [...]

Vietnam ready to have religious dialogue with U.S.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-10/24/content_6934515.htm HANOI, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) — Vietnam is ready to have dialogues on religious differences with the United States, local newspaper Vietnam News on Wednesday quoted Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung as saying.
    The Vietnamese government is always willing to listen and enter into dialogues with the United States on the [...]

Vietnamese seek Czech “Eden”

October 19th, 2007 http://www.praguepost.com/articles/2007/10/17/vietnamese-seek-czech-eden.phpBy Kimberly Ashton
Staff Writer, The Prague Post
October 17th, 2007
Phan Kien Cuong arrived in the Czech Republic in 1993 to join his father, who had studied electrical engineering here and owned a business. Now, Cuong says, “I don’t feel as if I am in a foreign country.” He’s fluent [...]

Vietnam steps up relocation for dam reservoir

 http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gpWjwXkwxY2uW1HMXgXoHL-0QIFQ
HANOI (AFP) — Vietnam has started relocating 14,000 more people to build the country’s largest hydro-electric dam reservoir in a northwestern mountain region near Laos, officials said Tuesday.
The group, many of them from the Hmong and Thai ethnic minorities, are the second large group to be resettled for the 2.6-billion-dollar dam project, [...]

U.S. ambassador to Vietnam calls human rights a priority

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-ambassador16oct16,1,3602561.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california&ctrack=1&cset=true
By My-Thuan Tran, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 16, 2007
Speaking in the heart of the nation’s largest Vietnamese American community, the newly appointed U.S. ambassador to Vietnam warmed up the crowd by saying that he would push for human rights as he took a critical look at Vietnam’s Communist regime.
But, he [...]

Who will take care of poor farmers?

 
The rich gets richer,  the poor battles harder… the jobs that does not pay well, but is essential – everyone needs to eat! My heart goes out to all the poor farmers back home – they work hard, sell their best harvest keep the worst for themselves, and do anything just to survive…
 
H7

http://www.thanhniennews.com/commentaries/?catid=11&newsid=32339
State-owned bank’s [...]

Police close in on internet paedophile

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2666735.ece
Murad Ahmed
A prolific paedophile at the centre of an international manhunt is believed to be an English language teacher living in Thailand, police said yesterday.
Last week Interpol made an unprecedented global appeal to catch the man, codenamed Vico, who is shown sexually abusing children in about 200 images on the web.
The [...]

IOM instructs Viet ladies headed for South Korean hubbies

http://www.thanhniennews.com/overseas/?catid=12&newsid=32462
International Organization of Migration (IOM) announced Thursday it would organize a course for Vietnamese women planning to get married to South Korean men.
Participants at the free course from Dec. 8-30 will be trained and provided with information about culture, customs, behaviors, eccentricities, expectations and traditions of Koreans to help them adapt.

IOM Vietnam Head [...]

Typhoon, floods kill 58 in Vietnam

*sigh* what more can i say. knowing that every year Vietnam faces damaging typhoon – its a wonder why there seems to be no plan in place to protect the people against them and against the flooding that occurs with them. IT seems like they are reacting after an event in stead of proactivitly preventing [...]