Vietnam urges China to take action after guards kill nine fishermen
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Vietnam has urged China to severely punish the border guards it says shot dead nine Vietnamese fishermen for allegedly straying into Chinese waters.
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Twenty one people, 19 of them children, may have died in central Vietnam in two boat accidents, officials and state media said on Sunday.
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Fifteen people died or went missing after their boat capsized on Thursday on Cua Luc River in Vietnam&#39;s northern border province of Quang Ninh, Vietnam News Agency reported on Friday.
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Vietnam needs to control blogs to prevent the spread of subversive and sexually explicit content, communist government officials said according to a state media report Wednesday.
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Hanoi - Vietnam&#39;s death toll from flash floods triggered by Typhoon Muifa has risen to 11, officials said on Saturday. The deaths all occurred in central Vietnam, with Quang Ngai, Quang Nam and Thua Thien-Hue
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Vietnam said two children who died of bird flu this month had tested positive for the H5N1 strain, bringing to three the number of fatalities from the latest outbreak of a virus that killed 24 people across Asia earlier this year.
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There were three swift boats on the river that day in Vietnam more than 35 years ago - three officers and 15 crew members. Only two of those officers remain to talk about what happened on February 28, 1969.
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Vietnam has released nearly 9,000  prisoners, including 10 inmates whose cases it says had drawn  international attention, as part of traditional pardons granted  ahead of independence celebrations on September 2.
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At least 37 people have died when severe tropical storm Durian hit southern Vietnam, destroying boats and houses after leaving more than 1,000 dead or missing in the Philippines.
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China will consider adopting measures to protect its interests and those of its trading partners once global textile quotas are scrapped at the end of this month, a government spokesman said on Friday.
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Chinese food safety officials are calling for more stringent inspections and testing of exports, saying international alarm over the quality of its products is threatening China's image and relations with other countries.
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Nine people are killed in Burma during a violent crackdown on protests against the junta, state media says.
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NHA TRANG, Vietnam  - It was the destruction of coral reef and over-fishing that moved artist Nguyen Lieu to paint brightly coloured canvasses warning Vietnamese that their coastal environment is in peril.
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A boat capsized in heavy winds on a river in northern Vietnam, killing 16 people, an official said Saturday.
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Families of victims of the military crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests have urged the Chinese government to publish a true account, apologize and pay compensation to bereaved relatives and survivors.
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Vietnam's death toll from Typhoon Xangsane has risen to 59 as floods triggered by heavy rains submerged tens of thousands of homes, disaster officials said Wednesday.
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An oil spill from an unidentified source has hit Vietnam's central coast, blackening popular resort beaches as thousands of local people help with the cleanup, officials said Thursday.