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Rampaging buffalo injures 10 in Vietnam

By AP News Tue, May 15, 2012 9:21AM UTC View Comments

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A water buffalo injured 10 people in central Vietnam while rampaging down crowded streets, across a river and through a house before being gunned down at a kindergarten, an official said Monday. The young male buffalo, normally a docile species used to plow rice fields, ran wild for about three hours...

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Vietnam detains 20 following mass land eviction

By AP News Wed, Apr 25, 2012 2:10PM UTC View Comments

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -Witnesses and state media say authorities in northern Vietnam have detained 20 people after thousands of police evicted farmers from their land to make way for a satellite city. A protester who gave her name only as Thinh says more than 1,000 villagers were overpowered by some 3,000 police and militiamen, many...

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Vietnam hosts naval exchange with US Navy

By AP News Mon, Apr 23, 2012 8:45AM UTC View Comments

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam is hosting a weeklong naval exchange with the U.S. Navy this week amid percolating tensions in the South China Sea with China. Three ships from the U.S. 7th Fleet began their five-day visit to central Danang city Monday. No live-fire drills are planned, but the two sides are expected to...

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Vietnam seeks help with mystery disease; 19 dead

By AP News Fri, Apr 20, 2012 1:37PM UTC View Comments

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam has asked the World Health Organization to help investigate a mystery disease that has killed 19 people and sickened 171 others in central Vietnam. Le Han Phong, chairman of the People’s Committee in Ba To district in Quang Ngai province, says patients first experience a rash on their hands and...

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Vietnamese priest beaten at planned orphanage

By AP News Wed, Apr 18, 2012 1:10PM UTC View Comments

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — The Catholic church in Vietnam says a priest has been beaten unconscious by a mob of “thugs” and the house he intended to turn into an orphanage has been destroyed. The Office of the Hanoi Archdiocese said in a statement posted on its website that the Rev. Nguyen Van Binh had...

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