UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- Relations between the international community and Iraq will help sustain a positive future for the war-torn nation, Vietnam's envoy to the United Nations said.

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.

CAN THO, Vietnam, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- At least 36 workers died Wednesday in the southern Vietnamese city of Can Tho when a partially completed bridge collapsed on them.

HANOI, Vietnam, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Asia-Pacific leaders pledged "to revive moribund world trade talks" and combat terrorism as their economic cooperation meeting in Vietnam closed Sunday.

DA NANG, Vietnam, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Typhoon Kai-Tak has killed at least nine people in coastal provinces of central Vietnam, including a third-grade schoolgirl. The storm forced Chinese President Hu Jintao to cancel a visit to the city of Da Nang, the BBC reported Wednesday.

HANOI, Vietnam, May 21 (UPI) -- The wife of a jailed Vietnamese dissident petitioned Friday to see her husband, on a two-week hunger strike to protest his seven-year sentence for espionage.