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- Int'l community pledges more aid to China
Spain to deliver emergency aid to China Japanese rescue team arrive in quake-hit area China accepts quake rescue offers from Russia, ROK, Singapore Vietnam financially helps Chinese earthquake victims Related Channel News · 7.8 Richter scale earthquake
- Elixir Gaming Technologies to Host Asian Gaming Market Tour
Elixir Gaming Technologies announced that it will host an investor tour of gaming venues in the Philippines, Vietnam and Cambodia markets from Friday, June 6th through Monday, June 9th. Elixir Gaming s senior management team will accompany interested
- Treaty for cluster bombs expected during upcoming conference
Support for a ban on cluster weapons has risen sharply since 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon, when, according to United Nations estimates, Israeli troops fired some four million Vietnam War-era submunitions, of which a quarter failed to explode.
- Vietnam ranks fourth in rubber export
In April, the country fetched 113 million USD from exporting 46,000 tonnes of rubber, recording year-on-year increases of 10.5 percent in revenue and 12.47 percent in volume. As a result, Vietnam in the first four months of 2008 exported 169,000 tonnes
- Expo opens to help Vietnam's nuclear power project
Addressing the event, Minister of Sciences and Technology Hoang Van Phong said the ministry has submitted a bill on nuclear power to the ongoing third session of the National Assembly in a bid to formulate a legal foundation for nuclear energy-related
- US experts to research Vietnamese's anti-H5N1 ability
VietNamNet Bridge - As of October 2008, American experts will conduct wide-scale research in Vietnam on antibodies countering H5N1 that may exist in Vietnamese people's bodies. The research, which will be carried out by experts of the US National Health
- Vietnam to increase exports to Africa & the Middle East
- -- Vietnam plans to increase exports to the Middle East and South Asia to US$2.3 billion this year, an increase of 33 per cent compared to last year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade. Vietnam's main exports to these areas include rice,
- Vietnam, Hungary cooperation thrives
VietNamNet Bridge - The Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom will pay an official visit to Vietnam from May 15-19 at the invitation of President Nguyen Minh Triet, the first visit by a head of the Central European state in 10 years. The visit is aimed at
- Somali issue needs comprehensive solution
VietNamNet Bridge - A Vietnamese representative to the UN Security Council expressed concerns about insecurity and political instability in Somali and called for a comprehensive solution to the issue. Ambassador Hoang Chi Trung, Deputy Representative to
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France occupied all of Vietnam by 1884. Independence was declared after World War II, but the French continued to rule until 1954 when they were defeated by communist forces under Ho Chi MINH, who took control of the north. US economic and military aid to South Vietnam grew through the 1960s in an attempt to bolster the government, but US armed forces were withdrawn following a cease-fire agreement in 1973. Two years later North Vietnamese forces overran the south. Economic reconstruction of the reunited country has proven difficult as aging Communist Party leaders have only grudgingly initiated reforms necessary for a free market.
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