A Norwegian cargo ship with 19 Filipino crew members has sunk off the coast of southern Vietnam with only one man known to have survived and he refuses to talk, officials said on Sunday.
Vietnam will begin producing its own chemical for executing prisoners after factories in the European Union stopped shipments because of objections there to the death penalty.
Vietnam’s prime minister admittied he had mismanaged the country’s slumping economy on Monday, as he pledged to push forward with reforms of state-owned enterprises.