During the filming of Apocalypse Now, Martin Sheen had a heart attack and Coppola contemplated suicide. By the end, nearly everyone was either sick or exhausted. That is how some masterpieces are made... more
EpiKurean - a newly formed hotel group of former members of Six Senses Resorts and Spas - launched An Lam Ninh Van Bay Villas on April 2 on Vietnam's remote Ninh Van Bay... more
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in Vietnam for a South-East Asian leaders' summit, called on military-ruled Burma to free political prisoners before its first election for 20 years on November 7, saying it still had time to allay concerns.... more
Watching President Obama addressing the nation from the Oval Office on Tuesday night, I was reminded continuously of the early Seventies and the American withdrawal from Vietnam... more
Google, which this month pulled out of China after finding evidence the government there was hacking into email accounts of human rights activists and journalists, says it has identified similar cyber attacks in Vietnam... more
Soco International is avoiding the insolvency fears spreading through the exploration sector by reporting cash balances of $303 million (£219 million)... more
Former British glam rocker Gary Glitter, who is serving a jail sentence in Vietnam for molesting two girls, plans to return to singing after being released in August.... more
It has been the singular achievement of this Government to take the best private-sector occupational pension provision in Europe and, by a mixture of short sightedness and misplaced intervention, virtually to destroy it... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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