Vietnam

HANOI, Feb 26 (NNN-VNA) – More than 100,000 poultry have been culled in 10 provinces and cities of Vietnam, where A/H5N6 and A/H5N1 bird flu broke out, the country’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development reported today (Wednesday).

HANOI, Feb 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Police in Vietnam have charged seven people in connection with the deaths of 39 migrants whose bodies were discovered in the back of a truck near London last year.

The victims, who included two 15-year-old boys, were mostly from two provinces in north-central Vietnam, where poor job prospects, encouragement by authorities, smuggling gangs and environmental issues have fuelled migration.

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet Air will resume flights to Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau from Sunday, the companies said, after the Hanoi government eased restrictions over virus concerns.

Vietnam on Saturday declared a public health emergency over the coronavirus epidemic and said it would halt all flights to and from China including Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

HANOI, Jan 15 (NNN-XINHUA) – Song Tao, head of the International Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, stressed to promote the development of China-Vietnam relations in the new era.

Song made the remarks during his visit to Vietnam, ahead of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Vietnam.

China-Vietnam ties are essentially the relations between two socialist countries under the leadership of communist parties, Song said.

HANOI, Nov 21 (NNN-VNA) – The Vietnamese government will advance payment, to bring back remains of 39 local people found dead in a lorry in Britain, a senior official of the country’s foreign ministry said today (Thursday).

The government decided to make advance payments, to make sure the victims are brought home as ashes or in coffins, as soon as possible, Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bui Thanh Son, said.

HANOI (Reuters) - The United States announced on Wednesday it will provide Vietnam with another coast guard cutter for its growing fleet of ships, boosting Hanoi’s ability to patrol the South China Sea amid tensions with China.

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper disclosed the decision during an address in Vietnam, which has emerged as the most vocal opponent in Asia of China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea.

In the same speech, Esper sharply criticized China.

VINH, Vietnam, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- Cao Huy Thanh's old run-down house is nestled deep into a narrow and winding road covered with big bushes and trees, a typical landscape of rural Vietnam.

HANOI, Nov 9 (NNN-VNA) – The Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security, announced here on Friday, the list of all 39 Vietnamese victims, in the incident of the container truck detected in the British county of Essex.

After determining the 39 people’s identities, Vietnam’s relevant authorities contacted each bereaved family, to provide them with information related to the victims, the ministry said in a statement, posted on its website.

HANOI, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) -- Police of Vietnam's central Ha Tinh province have filed charges against criminal activities of organizing, brokering illegal immigration and residence in foreign countries following reports of local families seeking for their missing relatives in Britain.

HANOI, October 29. /TASS/: Russia has resumed wheat supplies to Vietnam, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Akimov, who chairs a bilateral intergovernmental commission for trade and economic, scientific and technical cooperation, said on Tuesday.

"We have ironed out the issue on supplies [of wheat]. <...> We had some issues related to weed seeds found in the grain. We have solved this issue and settled this with the Vietnamese side, and Russia’s grain has already entered the Vietnamese market," Akimov said.