(Bloomberg) — The Philippines and Vietnam are set to sign a cooperation agreement between their coast guards as Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. boosts partnerships in the region amid lingering tensions with Beijing in the South China Sea. Most Read from Bloomberg Marcos, who’s scheduled to make a short visit to Vietnam from Monday, will […]
By Karen Lema and Francesco Guarascio HANOI/MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines and Vietnam will agree to boost coastguard cooperation during a visit to Hanoi next week by Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, officials said, a move that risks angering China. The two Southeast Asian countries have competing claims over swathes of the South China Sea, […]
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) — From the sky, the sprawling Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam appears to erupt from the green expanse of the riverine delta that surrounds it. Millions of lives – an estimated 9.3 million in 2023, according to the U.N. World Urbanization Prospects – intersect in Vietnam’s financial […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Vietnam’s ambassador to the United States on Tuesday urged Washington to end its “non-market economy” label on Hanoi, warning that maintaining the resulting punitive duties on Vietnamese goods is bad for increasingly close bilateral ties. Last year, the U.S. Commerce Department said it was reviewing Vietnam’s non-market economy status after Hanoi argued […]
HANOI (Reuters) – A court in Vietnam on Monday sentenced nine people to death after being convicted of involvement in one of the country’s largest drug trafficking cases in months, state media reported. They were found guilty of trafficking 105 kg (231.49 lb) of methamphetamine and heroine from Laos to Vietnam from 2021 until early […]
Jan. 6—Seventy-five-year-old Guadalupe “Lupe” Garza Reyna was surprised during a Veterans Day ceremony at Rio Vista High School when he was presented with his high school diploma, a rite of passage he missed when he joined the service and went to serve in Vietnam. Born May 8, 1948, in Robstown near Corpus Christi, Reyna grew […]
Vietnam’s former health minister and 37 others went on trial in Hanoi on Wednesday for their alleged roles in producing and distributing overpriced Covid-19 test kits. The Viet A scandal, named for the semi-private firm that made the kits, allegedly saw senior officials facilitate multiple million-dollar deals to supply hospitals and local communities with testing […]
The year 2023 didn’t turn out great for everybody, especially for one Joe Abodeely—who had his life’s work closed down due to his own stupid, hateful and discriminatory words. Abodeely is a Vietnam War veteran who has been the curator of the Arizona Military Museum in Phoenix for the last four decades. Only recently was […]
HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam and China signed a 16-page joint declaration and 36 co-operation documents in areas such as infrastructure, trade and security, during a visit to Hanoi by Chinese President Xi Jinping. Half the agreements signed this week by the Communist-ruled countries were non-binding. Their content was not made public. The list of deals […]
The Kremlin’s spy chief Sergei Naryshkin warned the U.S. that Ukraine will turn into its “second Vietnam,” amid disagreement in Congress over funding for Kyiv. “Ukraine will turn into a ‘black hole’ absorbing more and more resources and people,” Russian foreign intelligence chief Naryshkin said Thursday in a written statement published by his agency’s house […]