Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

DANANG — Vietnam and the United States will stage a fresh demonstration this week of their military ties at a time of escalating tensions with China over territorial claims in the South China Sea.

WASHINGTON—The Obama administration is in advanced negotiations to share nuclear fuel and technology with Vietnam in a deal that would allow Hanoi to enrich its own uranium—terms that critics on Capitol Hill say would undercut the more stringent demands the U.S. has been making of its partners in the Middle East.

Fifteen years after a divisive decision to normalize relations with Vietnam, the United States is finding to its surprise that the onetime foe has quickly emerged as one of its growing partners.

Vietnam must allow free workers' unions if it wants to liberalise trade with the US, a group of American senators said Wednesday during a visit to the communist country.

HANOI — In Le Dan's cinematic vision, a tormented former US army lieutenant returns to Vietnam to personally apologise for organising the wartime massacre at My Lai.

Vietnam on Wednesday criticized the United States' decision to impose heavy tariffs on imported Vietnamese plastic bags.

Vietnam's prime minister promised US businesses Wednesday to work to improve the investment climate, acknowledging concerns about shoddy infrastructure.

HANOI — The United States and Vietnam signed an agreement Tuesday that may pave the way for U.S. firms to help build nuclear plants in the Southeast Asian country as it strives to meet booming energy demand.

WASHINGTON-- The sole Vietnamese American member of the US Congress deplored Tuesday what he called worsening repression in his native country and appealed for pressure on Hanoi to respect religious freedom.

Of 43 foreign investors in Vietnam, US climbed from the third position in 2008 to become the biggest investor of Vietnam with the registered investment capital of $9.8 billion last year.

HANOI — Vietnam has filed its first case over anti-dumping measures under World Trade Organisation rules since joining the body three years ago, official media reported.

The only Vietnamese-American member of Congress said Wednesday he urged Hanoi's communist government to improve human rights on a quiet, restricted visit back to his nation of birth.

HO CHI MINH CITY — More than many countries, Vietnam has been buffeted by the ups and downs of globalization.

DANANG — On the day his side lost the Vietnam War, Hung Ba Le fled his homeland at the age of 5 in a fishing trawler crammed with 400 refugees. Thirty-four years later, he made an unlikely homecoming — as the commander of a U.S. Navy destroyer.

Hanoi - Vietnam called a US State Department report on religious freedom in the country "biased" and "misleading," the official Vietnam News reported Thursday.