Russian President Medvedev meets with Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) welcomes Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Minh Triet before their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow on October 27, 2008. Russia and Vietnam agreed Monday to boost their energy cooperation and explore new prospective oil fields.(UPI Photo/Anatoli Zhdanov)
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HANOI, Vietnam, July 25 (UPI) -- Top Communist Party official Truong Tan Sang was elected president of Vietnam by the country's Parliament Monday.
HANOI, Vietnam, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Vietnam's president used the 1,000th anniversary of the founding of Hanoi to urge continued development and unity for the whole country.
NEW YORK, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. President Obama Friday in New York lauded the first U.S.-ASEAN leaders meeting in the United States as an opportunity to boost trade relations with Asia.
HAI DUONG, Vietnam, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- A Vietnamese jewelry company said a team of 50 artisans will be employed to turn a 35-ton block into the world's largest jade statue of Buddha.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Russia and Vietnam recently signed agreements deepening their cooperation in an energy joint venture to develop Vietnamese energy reserves. In an ironic twist of history, it was the United States in 1975, two months before the fall of Saigon, that discovered two offshore fields in the South China Sea that were determined to hold 50 percent of South Vietnam's offshore reserves.
HANOI, Vietnam, April 4 (UPI) -- A mentally ill British man condemned in Vietnam to the firing squad for smuggling heroin has had his sentence commuted to life in prison.
CAN THO, Vietnam, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Rescue workers searched the wreckage Thursday of a bridge that collapsed while under construction in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam.
HANOI, Vietnam, June 26 (UPI) -- Despite U.S. denials of compensation to Vietnam for injuries caused by the Agent Orange defoliant, Washington has loosened its purse strings.
WASHINGTON, June 22 (UPI) -- U.S. President George W. Bush Friday urged Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet to move to a more open society during a meeting in Washington.
WASHINGTON, June 7 (UPI) -- Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet will visit the White House June 22 to meet with U.S. President George Bush.
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