
Russians attempt to topple Google in Vietnam
Vietnam's booming Internet scene is littered with failed startups that tried to take on Google and other entrenched U.S web companies. That's not ...

Vietnamese hopeful of Scientology 'detox'
North Vietnamese army veteran Nguyen Anh Quoc grimaces as he forces down the last of the 35 vitamins he takes each morning. After decades of suffering ...
40 years on, Laotians tell of US war legacy
Forty years after the secret U.S. bombing that devastated Laos, heirs to the war's deadly legacy of undetonated explosives are touring America to prod ...

Maduro: Chavez long-term embalming unlikely
Venezuela's acting president said Wednesday that it is highly unlikely Hugo Chavez will be embalmed for permanent viewing because the decision to do ...

Chavez tattoos, kitsch in demand since death
Business has never been better for Eudis Carrillo. Sure, he's heartbroken over the death of his hero Hugo Chavez, but there's precious little time for ...

Preservation of Venezuelan leader's body not easy
No one lives forever — nor do they last forever. At least not without a lot of tuneups. As much as it may seem like the bodies of famous world leaders ...

Other world leaders whose bodies are on display
World leaders whose bodies have been preserved and put on perpetual display, as Venezuela's government plans to do with Hugo Chavez: ___ VLADIMIR ...

Hugo Chavez's body to be put on permanent display
Vladimir Lenin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, and now Hugo Chavez. The late leader's supporters have put him on a pedestal long provided for the world's ...

Chavez body to be put on permanent display
Hugo Chavez's body will be preserved and forever displayed inside a glass tomb at a military museum not far from the presidential palace from which ...

The wild card in Venezuela: Armed Chavistas
The banner just inside the poor neighborhood in western Caracas reads, "Loyal to Comandante Chavez." The guard at the gate ensures no one enters ...

Vietnam deports US activist held for 9 months
A Vietnamese-American accused of conspiring to overthrow Vietnam's communist government smiled broadly as he reunited with his family after he was ...

In Vietnam, rage growing over loss of land rights
Faced with a group of farmers refusing to give up their land for a housing project, the Communist Party officials negotiating the deal devised a ...

Starbucks enters entrenched Vietnam coffee market
Nghiem Ngoc Thuy has been slinging coffees to thirsty Vietnamese for 20 years in her colonial-style villa with peeling shutters, and she and her ...
Starbucks to open 1st Vietnam cafe
Starbucks Corp. will open its first Vietnam cafe early next month in Ho Chi Minh City as part of its strategy to expand across Asia, the company said ...
Vietnam police arrest well-known dissident lawyer
Vietnamese police have detained a well-known dissident lawyer, escalating a crackdown on those who speak out against the country's one-party, ...

Meeting delay a sign of cooling US-Vietnam ties
The U.S. and Vietnam, former enemies who share concerns about China's rise, are finding that one issue — human rights — is keeping them from becoming ...