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Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam ( ; , ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (, ) – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia.
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A mom with a screaming child wanted a quick getaway from a plane on the tarmac in Vietnam and asked for help.
The man next to her obliged by opening the emergency exit and triggering the escape slide.But that's as far as they got.A state media report on Tuesday's incident at Ho Chi Minh City airport says nobody used the slide. It wasn't clear if they got second thoughts or if the cabin crew intervened.The man, identified as 29-year-old Le Van Thuan, told authorities the child's mother asked him to open the door so she and the child could exit faster.An airport official says the man will be fined up to $950, and it will cost $10,000 to refit the slide....The U.S., France and a human rights group have strongly criticized the conviction of a French-Vietnamese math professor who was sentenced to three years in a Vietnam...
Draped in red Communist banners and propaganda slogans, Vietnam's capital turned 1,000 years old Sunday in an extravagant ceremony intended to stoke national pride a...
Hundreds of people in Vietnam launched a third week of protests against China on Sunday amid escalating tensions in the disputed waters of the South China Sea, where...
Time was running out, and it wasn't safe to stay. Sixty upright pianos had to be moved from Hanoi's music conservatory to a village in the countryside where students...
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An official says Vietnam will deport the last of three Vietnamese-American activists who participated in a protest in Ho Chi Minh City.Foreign Ministry spokeswoman N...
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — The United Nations has launched a $5 million project to clean up Agent Orange contamination at a former U.S military air base in Vietnam, the w...
A well-known Vietnamese pro-democracy dissident has been released on bail after calling for a revolution inspired by protests in the Middle East, state-controlled me...
Vietnamese divers on Monday recovered the final body of the 16 people who drowned when a party boat sank in a river during a boy's birthday celebration, while the bo...
A tour boat cruising a river to celebrate a 3-year-old's birthday capsized during a violent storm in southern Vietnam, killing the boy, four other children and 10 ad...
International human rights groups called on Vietnamese police to quickly find the attacker who barged into a journalist's bedroom and set him on fire while he was sl...
The wife of a Vietnamese journalist has been arrested for allegedly murdering her husband by setting him on fire as he slept, police said Wednesday.Tran Thi Thuy Lie...
Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, the outspoken beauty who served as South Vietnam's unofficial first lady early on in the Vietnam War and earned the nickname "Dragon Lady" for h...
A U.S.-based pro-democracy group says two Vietnamese-Americans have been detained in Vietnam and another released after participating in a protest in Ho Chi Minh Cit...
One of Vietnam's most prominent pro-democracy dissidents has been detained after calling for a revolution to overthrow the Communist government following a wave of M...
Three U.S. Navy ships were welcomed Friday by former foe Vietnam for joint training, despite China's irritation following weeks of fiery exchanges between the commun...
Three U.S. Navy ships were welcomed Friday by former foe Vietnam for joint training, despite China's irritation following weeks of fiery exchanges between the commun...
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) — Some walked with canes, others with limps. Their hair stained with streaks of silver, their faces mapped by years of pressure and de...
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A mass grave has been found containing the remains of 30 communist soldiers believed to have been killed during the Tet Offensive, seen by many...
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