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Vietnam as Asia's first domino - Asia Times
BANGKOK - While global markets fret about European sovereign debts, could Vietnam be Asia's first over-stimulated economic domino? With a wobbly currency, fast and loose bank lending and an absence of local confidence in the government's economic ...

Inflation Pressures Brew in Vietnam - Salon
History has shown that countries where the central banks are independent from the governments experience more stable economic growth and lower inflation rates than countries whose central banks are not. Moody’s economy.com weighs in on the ...

Pro-democracy novelist on trial for assault in Vietnam - Monsters and Critics
Hanoi - A pro-democracy writer and her husband went on trial Friday in Hanoi in a case that has drawn condemnation from foreign governments and human rights organizations. Writer Tran Khai Thanh Thuy and her husband, Do Ba Tan, both 50, are accused ...

1st Vietnam vet in Congress was a capital P powerhouse - Minneapolis Star Tribune
WASHINGTON - Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, a gruff ex-Marine who used his immense power in military spending to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to his hard-luck district and who became an outspoken critic of the Iraq war, died on Monday ...

Vietnam’s Vinalines Hires Credit Suisse for $100 Million Loan - BusinessWeek
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group, known as Vinalines, hired Credit Suisse Group AG to help it get a $100 million, three-year loan, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Duong Chi Dung said in a telephone interview from Hanoi ...

John Murtha, Congressman from Pennsylvaia, dead at 77 - Nashville Tennessean
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Rep. John Murtha, a retired Marine Corps officer who became the first Vietnam War combat veteran elected to Congress and later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq War, died Monday. He was 77. The Pennsylvania Democrat ...

Rep. John Murtha, first Vietnam War combat vet in Congress, dies at 77 - Ledger-Enquirer
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Rep. John Murtha, the tall, gruff-mannered retired Marine who became the de facto voice of veterans on Capitol Hill and later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq War, died Monday. He was 77. The Pennsylvania Democrat ...

Foreigners Net Seller Of VND50.3 Billion Vietnam Shares Tuesday - NASDAQ
HANOI -(Dow Jones)- Foreign investors were net sellers of VND50.3 billion ($ 2.7 million) of Vietnamese stocks Tuesday out of a total VND1.12 trillion traded, the Hochiminh Stock Exchange said. Volume was 25.21 million shares, with foreigners ...

Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania Dies - WUSA
John Murtha of Pennsylvania ... Murtha became the first combat veteran of the Vietnam War elected to Congress. He wielded considerable clout for two decades as a leader of the House subcommittee that oversees Pentagon spending. But frustration over ...

Mexico arrests 2 reputed leaders of drug gang
Mexican authorities on Monday arrested two suspected leaders of a brutal drug trafficking gang that terrorized the border city of Tijuana for several years, a U.S. official said.

N. Korea’s Kim reiterates disarmament pledge
China's Xinhua News Agency says that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has reiterated his country's promise to achieve a denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.

Spring rains threaten Haitian survivors

Survivors of Haiti's earthquake in a makeshift tent at the Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince on Feb. 2. Officials are now worried about the coming of deadly spring rains.In Haiti's devastated capital city, early spring rains threaten to cause landslides and bring about health problems in the makeshift camps where more than 500,000 people are living.




Haiti awash in Christian aid, evangelism

Members of Idaho-based charity called New Life Children's Refuge are shown at a police station in Port-au-Prince on Jan. 31. The drama on the sidelines of Haiti's earthquake, in which 10 American missionaries were arrested trying to take children out of the country, was a fiasco waiting to happen. By Kari Huus.




Report: Iran begins controversial nuke process

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, is seen visiting the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility some 200 miles south of the capital Tehran, on April 8, 2008.Iran's state TV said the country started enriching its uranium to a higher level of 20 percent, over the objections of the international community.




Afghan avalanches kill at least 28, strand 1,500

An Afghan army soldier carries a child during an evacuation from the avalanche which struck the Salang Pass, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. Avalanches on a mountain pass north of Kabul have killed at least 28 people, with another 1,500 stranded in their vehicles on snow-blocked roads, Afghan officials said Tuesday.




Anti-whalers, Japanese fleet fire water cannons

In this photo released by the Institute of Cetacean Research of Japan, anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd's ship the Bob Barker, right, and the Japanese whaling ship Yushin Maru No.3 collide in the waters of Antarctica Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. It was the second major clash this year in the increasingly aggressive confrontations between conservationists and the whaling fleet. (AP Photo/Institute of Cetacean Research) ** MANDATORY CREDIT, NO SALES, EDITORIAL USE ONLY **Activists vowing to stop the killing of whales exchanged water-cannon fire with a Japanese whaling fleet they are tailing in the Antarctic Ocean, as sea confrontations that have led to collisions and a sunken vessel continue.




Recovery effort revives China’s quake zone

A car drives in a town destroyed from the 2008 earthquake in Wenchuan, China. Just 22 months from the 7.9-magnitude quake struck, scarred mountain sides are often the only physical indication of the devastation that left nearly 90,000 dead or missing and another 5 million homeless. China is showing off the results of its massive drive to rebuild its own quake zone  22 months after a 7.9-magnitude temblor struck and devastated the region and left at least 90,000 dead.




World Blog: Did 'pandering' cost U.S. lives at Afghan base?
Why did eight American soldiers die defending an remote outpost the U.S. military no longer wanted to hold? NBC News' Richard Engel reports from Kabul.

NATO: Afghans to play big role in offensive

British and Afghan soldiers practice drills at Military Operating Base Shorabak in Helmand, Afghanistan, on Monday, in preparatoin for a major offensive that also will include thousands of U.S. troops. Thousands of Afghan soldiers and police will join U.S. and NATO troops in an offensive in southern Afghanistan, playing their biggest role in any joint operation of the Afghan war.



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