PHNOM PENH, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - Cambodia sentenced an American man to more than two years in prison for committing indecent acts against minors, and has arrested a Frenchman accused of abusing boys, officials said Wednesday.

HANOI, August 4, 2008 (AFP) - Swiss President Pascal Couchepin met Vietnamese leaders Monday on the second day of a three-day visit during which both sides were due to sign a university cooperation agreement.

HANOI, August 4, 2008 (AFP) - Vietnam's appetite for illegal wildlife meat and demand for traditional medicine is devastating animal and plant species within and beyond its borders, experts warn in two new reports.

HANOI, August 1, 2008 (AFP) - British pop singer Gary Glitter will be freed from a Vietnam prison on August 19 after serving a three-year term for child molestation, an official said Friday.

HANOI, July 29, 2008 (AFP) - Vietnam received a record 45.3 billion dollars in foreign direct investment (FDI) pledges in the first seven months -- more than double the total of last year, the government said Tuesday.

HANOI, July 24, 2008 (AFP) - Vietnam on Thursday signalled it wants to continue with a joint oil exploration project with ExxonMobil in disputed waters, despite a warning from China to the US energy giant to drop the deal.

BRUSSELS, July 23, 2008 (AFP) - The European Union has decided to end preferential tariffs for Vietnamese-made footwear and some other goods, the European Commission said Wednesday.

EU foreign ministers, at a meeting in Brussels, on Tuesaday backed the renewal of the bloc's system of general preferences for products from developing countries from January 2009 to the end of 2011.

HONG KONG, July 20, 2008 (AFP) - China has warned US oil giant ExxonMobil to drop an exploration deal in the seas off Vietnam and said the project could threaten any future mainland contracts, a Hong Kong newspaper reported Sunday.

HANOI, July 16, 2008 (AFP) - Police in communist Vietnam have arrested the heads of two health centres suspected of forging documents in a scam that put up infants for overseas adoptions, a senior official confirmed Wednesday.

NHA TRANG, July 13, 2008 (AFP) - Locked away in a Vietnamese luxury resort on Sunday, the eve of the Miss Universe pageant, are 80 of the world's most beautiful women, anxiously wondering who is the best of them all.