Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

Vietnam will file suit with the World Trade Organisation to challenge the US's imposition of anti-dumping tariffs on Vietnamese shrimp, a government official confirmed Tuesday.

WASHINGTON — Vietnam needs to improve its human rights record if it wants to build a close relationship with the United States, a senior US envoy said Wednesday ahead of a visit to the region.

Hanoi - Vietnamese officials Thursday criticized a proposed US rule change that could result in Vietnamese catfish being temporarily blocked from the US market.

There has been a spike in human rights issues in Vietnam but dialogue, not harsher measures, is the way to respond, the United States ambassador said Wednesday.

Vietnam has invited President Barack Obama to visit the Southeast Asian country later this year for a regional summit.

It is predicted that Vietnam's plastic packaging export this year would reduce by 40 percent after the US's Department of Commerce and the US's International Trade Committee released their final decisions on applying the anti-dumping duty on February 2010.

Former US president Jimmy Carter will visit Vietnam to build houses for the poor on November 18, local newswire Vietnamnet reported on Thursday.

A Vietnamese student will sue San Jose police officers for using excessive force when arresting him on suspicion of assaulting his roommate, his attorney said in a telephone interview with Tuoi Tre.

Hanoi - The Vietnamese government rejected a US call for it to 'immediately and unconditionally' release nine dissidents sentenced to prison last week for criticizing the government, state media reported Friday.

HANOI — The United States has condemned Vietnam's recent conviction of nine democracy activists, the arrest of a writer and the expulsion of Buddhist monks from a monastery where they practiced the teachings of a renowned Zen master.

Hundreds of yellow and red South Vietnamese flags attached to plastic poles lean against the wall of Phung Nhu Truong's garage, ready for a protest of Vietnam's new consulate office in Houston.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday offered Vietnam aid for typhoon victims during wide-ranging talks here with Vietnamese Foreign minister Pham Gia Khiem.

Mai Khai contentedly grows his potatoes and melons smack up against an old brick wall surrounding a former US airbase in Vietnam which experts say remains highly contaminated.

HO CHI MINH CITY - Coca-Cola plans to invest $200 million in Vietnam over the next three years, nearly doubling its total investment since returning to the Southeast Asian country 15 years ago, CEO Muhtar Kent said on Friday.

HANOI - The U.S. government was "disturbed" by the negative portrayal of its assistance to Vietnam in a state TV broadcast last week, and remains concerned about Vietnam's human rights practices, the U.S. ambassador said on Wednesday.