Excavation of an ancient Vietnamese site has thrown up the earliest evidence of rice cultivation, while shedding new light on how the death of young children was viewed by community...

A Sioux Falls man's grief over a friend lost in the Vietnam War has taken a startling change of direction that now mixes a fresh blessing with deep pain.Mario Kemp weeps to tell what happened.Kemp...

Hanoi - Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung is facing a second lawsuit over controversial bauxite mining projects, a lawyer said Saturday. "I, Cu Huy Ha Vu, have filed a lawsuit against PM...

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By Fisnik Abrashi,Jason Straziuso, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS U.S. Marines sit with Afghani residents of the village of Noghara in the Nawa district in Afghanistan's Helmand province. (THE ASSOCIATED...

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stock prices are once again soaring. The Shanghai Composite Index rose 52 points Thursday, to close at 3,060.25, putting the index up 68 percent this year. In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng Index fell...

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Spanish oil major Repsol, sources said on Friday, in a deal that could be worth around $17 billion. A deal would mark the latest in a recent string of foreign takeovers by China's oil majors,...

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system of electing a leader, saying it was essential to keep step with the larger world and to ensure the continuity of their government. Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama speaks at...

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Washington, July 3: An archaeological excavation in southern Vietnam of a site more than 3000 years old has shed new light on how the death of young children was viewed by community members and...

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Hanoi - Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet has promulgated a new law removing death sentences for eight crimes, state media reported Friday. The state-run Viet Nam News said the new law took...

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cut for Pune, beginning Wednesday. A 20 per cent cut has already been in force in the city since June 21, which will be increased by 10 per cent. Avinash Surve, superintending engineer of the Pune...

is something else: a cheap variety that's usurping the humble catfish's place on Americans' tables and threatening their livelihoods. So after years of arguing that the Vietnamese fish isn't catfish...

campaign ahead of voting on July 8. Three presidential-vice presidential teams are running: President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his deputy, former...

takes to the world stage by announcing the programme for this year's G8 summit. Mr Berlusconi will say that the economic crisis and the need for...

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that criminalizes adult homosexual relations. It said such laws drive the problem of HIV underground and hamper efforts to prevent HIV/AIDS from spreading in the societies where they exist. UNAIDS...

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The procession of young people continues all afternoon in the muggy heat, and so does the message from Phan Bich Hong's megaphone. "Please don't touch the head of the tortoise!" Hong, 20, calls. She...