Tag: Vietnam

India may rent out 50 locomotives to Pakistan

As part of the efforts to strengthen bilateral trade ties, the Indian Railways is mulling to rent out 50 diesel locomotives to Pakistan. ...

Pakistan’s options

Must be in line with our national interests Governments in Pakistan have often taken decisions that in the long term benefitted others than the country...

Floods kill hundreds in Southeast Asia

Massive floods have left 500 people dead across Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, officials said Monday, as authorities stepped up efforts to reach victims of...

18 dead in Vietnam floods

The death toll from the worst floods to strike Vietnam’s Mekong Delta in a decade has risen to 18, the government said on Friday...

Waziristan to prove Vietnam for US: Salim

PML (Like-minded) President Senator Salim Saifullah has said North Waziristan will prove Vietnam if US tries to invade it. He said this while addressing a...

Vietnam, Pakistan promote bilateral trade cooperation

The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) and the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan held Friday a workshop on trade cooperation between the...

Vietnam storms kill 10, seven struck by lightning

At least 10 people have been killed, seven of them struck by lightning, during several days of storms and heavy rain in northern Vietnam,...

Pakistan, Vietnam to negotiate Free Trade Agreement

Pakistan and Vietnam is going to discuss the prospects of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two countries next month. Both countries will...

Vietnam complains to China as sea tensions rise

Vietnam protested to China on Thursday after what it described as a “premeditated” attack on an exploration ship in its waters, raising tensions between...

Bob Dylan makes debut in Vietnam

HO CHI MINH CITY - Legendary American musician Bob Dylan, whose songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam war movement, played a symbolic first-ever concert in the communist country on Sunday. A hero for the West's ageing "counter-culture" generation, Dylan and his protest songs are less well-known among the young population of the communist nation, who have no memory of the years of war with the United States.
But that didn't stop a number of young Vietnamese, as well as

Bob Dylan set for Vietnam debut

HO CHI MINH CITY - Legendary American musician Bob Dylan, whose songs became anthems of the 1960s anti-Vietnam War movement, was set to make his debut in the communist nation on Sunday.
The concert may be symbolic for the West's ageing "counter-culture" generation, but many in youthful Vietnam have never heard of the man who wrote "Blowin' in the Wind" and other songs of protest and struggle.
About half of Vietnam's 86 million-strong population is aged under 30, with no

Bob Dylan to perform in Vietnam

American singer Bob Dylan, famous for his anti-war songs during the Vietnam War, will perform in the Communist country for the first time next month, his promoter said Tuesday. Dylan will appear at an 8,000-plus-capacity university stadium in the southern commercial hub of Ho Chi Minh City on April 10.
Dylan is popular in Vietnam because of his anti-war songs. His 1960s songs 'Blowing in the Wind' and 'The Times They Are a-Changing' were inspirations for the American civil