Agent Orange work progresses in Vietnam
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More than three decades after the Vietnam War, the United States and Vietnam have just completed temporary steps to contain dioxin contamination at a former U.S. air base in Danang.
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Digital cartographer Tele Atlas NV has brought its first orange mapping van to Asia as a part of its effort to collect global data for portable, Internet, in-car and wireless navigation systems.
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Vietnam approves plans to build a $33bn (Â£15bn) rail link between the capital, Hanoi, to Ho Chi Minh City in the south.
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Four countries discuss Mekong river water use    HANOI, Dec.
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By Joe Light, The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville  Dec. 14--About 71 Clay County workers will lose their jobs or relocate  starting in February as Fujifilm Hunt Chemicals U.S.A. Inc. winds down its  operations in Orange Park.
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The head of the European Union's executive arm, Romano Prodi, said Vietnam was making solid progress in bilateral talks aimed at clearing the way to its entry into the World Trade Organisation.
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Among three recent human deaths in Vietnam&#39;s northern Thai Nguyen province, two were initially reported to have contracted an unidentified dangerous virus, local newspaper Labor reported Monday.
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Several major U.S. chemical companies are directly accountable for supplying the U.S. military with dioxin, or "agent orange," during the Vietnam War and causing widespread dioxin poisoning, a lawyer for Vietnamese plaintiffs told a federal appeals court on Monday.
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The European Union has concluded talks  with Vietnam on its entry into the World Trade Organization,  clearing a major hurdle in the Southeast Asian country's  attempts to join the group by 2005.
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By Yuthana Praiwan, Bangkok Post, Thailand  Feb. 8--Authorities say they will move quickly to set limits on volatile  organic compounds following the discovery of about 500 leaks of various  substances from factories in the Map Ta Phut area of Rayong.
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Anheuser-Busch teams up with Vietnam's largest brewer, laying the groundwork for future growth in the region.
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Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said Tuesday he will lead a trade mission to Vietnam later this year, hoping to boost export opportunities for American companies.
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The government is taking steps to preserve data and biological specimens from a quarter-century investigation into the effects of Agent Orange on Vietnam veterans, having found an elevated risk for diabetes but no clear links to cancer from the soon-to-end study.
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Thousands of Vietnamese living illegally in the United States now face deportation after the two countries completed an agreement Tuesday following a decade of work on the pact, a U.S. official said.
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Counterinsurgency efforts focus on better grasping and meeting local needs.
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Vietnam wants help from foreign epidemiologists, pathologists, toxicologists, veterinarians and lab technicians.
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Vietnam's leading information technology group FPT has received the green light to list on the communist country's stock exchange, just days after teaming up with software giant Microsoft.