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North Korean leader rides train on way to Vietnam
World
February 24, 2019
North Korean leader rides train on way to Vietnam
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s armored train chugged across China on Sunday as he headed to his highly anticipated…
North Korea’s US envoy arrives in Hanoi ahead of Trump-Kim summit
World
February 20, 2019
North Korea’s US envoy arrives in Hanoi ahead of Trump-Kim summit
Pyongyang’s special representative for the US arrived in Hanoi on Wednesday with a North Korean delegation, an AFP reporter and…
Speculation swirls over Kim’s travel plans for Hanoi summit
World
February 19, 2019
Speculation swirls over Kim’s travel plans for Hanoi summit
A visit by a North Korean delegation to a Vietnamese city on a popular train route from China has sparked…
Vietnam’s ‘incense village’ blazes pink ahead of lunar new year
Life & Style
January 8, 2019
Vietnam’s ‘incense village’ blazes pink ahead of lunar new year
In Vietnam’s “incense village”, dozens are hard at work dying, drying and whittling down bamboo bark to make the fragrant…
Mattis tours contaminated Vietnam War-era Agent Orange site
World
October 17, 2018
Mattis tours contaminated Vietnam War-era Agent Orange site
US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis toured a former Agent Orange storage site in southern Vietnam on Wednesday, revisiting one of…
Vietnam’s president dies after viral illness
World
September 21, 2018
Vietnam’s president dies after viral illness
HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam’s President Tran Dai Quang, a former chief of internal security who became one of the…
Communist Hanoi gets its first McDonald’s
World
December 2, 2017
Communist Hanoi gets its first McDonald’s
Global burger behemoth McDonald’s opened its first branch on Saturday in the historic heart of communist Hanoi, a conservative city…
Vietnam battles dengue outbreaks with 42 percent more cases
World
August 18, 2017
Vietnam battles dengue outbreaks with 42 percent more cases
Vietnam has been battling raging dengue fever outbreaks with more than 10,000 new infections reported over the past week stretching…