Vu Van Ninh, Vietnam's finance minister, said fuel prices are lower than in other countries in spite of the steep increase. The increases were expected to "limit smuggling of fuel across the borders ….

Kantharalak (Thailand), July 21 : Hundreds of Thai and Cambodian soldiers remained locked in a tense standoff at the ruins of an ancient Hindu temple here for a sixth straight day on Sunday, in a mode…

Italian shoemakers are collecting information to continue to oppose Vietnamese leather upper shoes exported to the European Union (EU), and planning to require the European Commission (EC) to lengthen…

A newly-arrived Thai soldier, center, walks through Cambodian soldiers as he heads from the border to a Cambodian Buddhist temple which Thai soldiers have occupied Saturday, July 19, 2008 near Preah V…

page . As a Vietnamese American writer who often addresses East-west relations, I have been asked over and over again: Why are Vietnamese so good at poker? Why indeed when many didn’t really pl…

Struggling with high food and fuel prices, rural Thais say protesters in Bangkok ought to let the government concentrate on the economy rather than make it expend energy on survival after just five…

-(Dow Jones)- Vietnam had to hike retail prices of gasoline and other refined oil products to reduce the huge cost of state subsidies, Minister of Finance Vu Van Ninh said Monday.

Britain's money for Mideast peace Jul 20 - Britain's Prime Minister has urged Israel to stop settlement expansion on occupied land saying it was making it harder to reach a peace deal with the Pales…

Kantharalak (Thailand), July 21 : Hundreds of Thai and Cambodian soldiers remained locked in a tense standoff at the ruins of an ancient Hindu temple here for a sixth straight day on Sunday, in a modern-day echo of the age-old clash of empires across Indochina.

London, July 21 : Carbon isotopes trapped for thousands of years in coral skeletons could establish the long-term frequency of major earthquakes in southeast Asia and the South Pacific, and perhaps enable these events to be forecast.