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Safari park plan draws fire

The Cambodian government is considering a Spanish company’s plan to create a hunting park in the country. The Madrid-based safari company wants to use 100,000 hectares of jungle in northeast Cambodia …

Capital on alert after blasts

Authorities in the Thai capital, Bangkok, are on alert as two hotels in southern Thailand were targetted in a series of bomb blasts this morning. Police say there were five blasts, and dozens of peopl…

Vietnam Airlines 2007 profit rises 6.4 pct

(Reuters) - National carrier Vietnam Airlines earned a gross profit of 370 billion dong ($23 million) this year, up 6.4 percent from last year after revenues grew more than 15 percent, it said in a st…

Photo from Linux Devices The OLPC and Asus EE PC have had most of the coverage, but there are other designs out there based on the Intel Classmate PC prototype mentioned here in October 2006. The Haca…

Vietnam has attracted a record amount of foreign direct investment this year and Japanese automaker Toyota says the company’s future in 2008 looks bright. Claudia Blume at VOA’s Asia News Center in Ho…

HA NOI — An electricity-sharing deal was struck by Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia at a meeting in Phnom Penh last week. Under the terms of the agreement, Viet Nam and Laos will sell electricity to Cambodia’s two provinces of Kampong Cham and Stung Treng.

BANGKOK–Security was beefed up across Bangkok Monday, as thousands were expected to throng the streets for New Year celebrations a year after bomb blasts in the Thai capital killed three people. Extr…

(Reuters) - Singapore’s United Overseas Bank (UOBH.SI: Quote, Profile, Research) has sought permission to double its holding in Vietnam’s Southern Commercial Bank to 20 percent, the Vietnamese bank sa…

United Nations (PTI): Vietnam, Burkina Faso, Libya, Costa Rica and Croatia will join the 15-member United Nations Security Council (UNSC) as non-permanent members for a two-year term on Tuesday. They …

Vietnam will open Internet Protocol (IP) phone-to-phone services in the areas bordering China in 2008,local newspaper Vietnam Investment Review reported Monday. The new service will encourage resident…

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