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Vietnam, which presently has tense relations with China, is building a 5G network without using products from China’s telecom giant Huawei.

Police in Vietnam broke up a demonstration outside the Chinese embassy in Hanoi as protesters campaigned against Beijing’s aggressive pursuit of territory in the South China Sea, Reuters reported Tuesday.

Something I’ve heard discussed since I was a child in my parent’s family room is how presidents dramatically age while in office.  While it is true that everyone “looks” different after four-to-eight years of life, presidents seem to age more dramatically than the rest of us.

In the 1990s sportswear giant Nike became a target of complaints because it used sweatshop labor in Asia to manufacture its products. Despite subsequent efforts to end the practice, some human rights activists say the company still has issues with unsafe and unfair labor practices.

A court in Vietnam jailed an American citizen for 12 years on Monday after he was found guilty of attempting to “overthrow” the ruling communist regime. 

A document from the Workers’ Party of North Korea obtained by Voice of America News and published on Monday indicated dictator Kim Jong-un hoped the United States would formally recognize North Korea as a nuclear weapons state at the second summit meeting between Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump.

An anonymous “person knowledgeable about the matter” told the Wall Street Journal in a report published Monday that Kim Jong-nam, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un’s late older brother, was a CIA informant before his 2017 assassination.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration will sell 34 surveillance drones to four American allies in the South China Sea, Reuters reported Tuesday.

North Korean state media reported Monday that former senior diplomat Kim Yong-chol had resurfaced at an art event in Pyongyang Sunday, several days after South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo claimed that dictator Kim Jong-un had sentenced him to time in a labor camp over his failed summit with President Donald Trump.

The conservative South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo reported Friday that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un executed senior diplomat Kim Hyok-chol and sentenced two others to prison camps over President Donald Trump’s abrupt withdrawal from a summit with Kim Jong-un in February.

North Korea’s Foreign Affairs Ministry hurled a tirade of personal insults at National Security Adviser John Bolton in remarks published Monday, dismissing his complaints that Pyongyang had violated U.N. Security Council limits on weapons testing by asserting that those limits were “illegal.”

“What we’ve got to learn is how to kind of stiff-arm him, it’s almost sort of a ‘crazy uncle’ management,” he said.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg believes that choosing America first is not always “the right thing to do.”

President Donald Trump emphasized Monday the U.S. could employ tariffs on yet another $325 billion in Chinese goods while revealing that decision has yet to be made.

Doan Thi Huong, the second of two women accused of murdering North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un’s half-brother, Kim Jong-nam, in 2017, was released from prison in Malaysia on Friday. Her co-defendant, Siti Aisyah, was abruptly released in March, with all charges dropped.

North Korean state media quoted dictator Kim Jong-un on Friday as expressing to Russian President Vladimir Putin his frustration with President Donald Trump, claiming that America acted “in bad faith” when Trump walked out of Kim’s summit with the president in February.

Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday published the 2018 edition of its annual report on the death penalty. The report found a 31 percent decrease in executions compared to 2017, “the lowest number of executions that Amnesty International has recorded in the past decade.”

A Vietnamese woman has been sentenced to just three years and four months in jail for her involvement in the assassination of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un’s half brother Kim Jong-nam. 

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), a progressive Democrat, told Breitbart News he is supporting President Donald Trump’s efforts to broker a peace deal with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Three weeks after charges were suddenly dropped against her Indonesian co-defendant, 30-year-old Doan Thi Huong of Vietnam pled guilty to lesser charges and was sentenced to three years and four months in jail for the murder of Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.

The Trump administration delivered six patrol boats worth $12 million to Vietnam’s Coast Guard, the American embassy in Hanoi announced on Monday, saying the move represents the “deepening cooperation” in law enforcement and humanitarian efforts between the former enemies.

Beto O’Rourke joined a select group of lawmakers on Air Force One in 2016 as they traveled to Vietnam and Japan to promote the trade deal.

Pop icon and left-wing celebrity activist Cher exploded on President Donald Trump Thursday, claiming that he kisses the “A**es” of “white supremacists” and “child molesters.”

While the summit meeting between North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and President Donald Trump ended with no deal being made on Pyongyang’s de-nuclearization, it was not the first time Americans were engaged by North Koreans in Vietnam – the Americans just did not know it.

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho gave a press conference from Hanoi, Vietnam, on Thursday in which he disputed U.S. President Donald Trump’s account of unsuccessful negotiations with dictator Kim Jong-un.

The South Korean government expressed regret on Thursday that President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un could not reach an agreement in Hanoi. South Korea applauded the progress made so far and said it remains committed to dialogue with North Korea.

President Trump has it right — sometimes when you’re trying to negotiate with the spoilt, unaccountable, unelected rulers of a dictatorial foreign power you just have to know when to walk away.

“I think having a fake hearing like that and having it in the middle of this very important summit is a really terrible thing,” Trump said during a press conference after the nuclear talks were cut short.

President Donald Trump explained Thursday why he cut short a negotiation summit with Kim Jong-Un in Vietnam.

“No agreement was reached at this time, but their respective teams look forward to meeting in the future,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement to White House reporters.

President Donald Trump emphasized there was “no rush” to get a deal with North Korea as he sat with Chairman Kim Jong-un at their summit in Vietnam Thursday.

President Donald Trump seemed to be in very good humor following his meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.

“I have now spent more time in Vietnam than Da Nang Dick Blumenthal, the third rate Senator from Connecticut,” Trump wrote on Twitter from Vietnam.

“I think they’re going to be very successful we look forward to it, we both do,” Trump said. 

A group of key Democrats in the House of Representatives have come forward to publicly back President Donald Trump ahead of his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, Vietnam.

He traveled about 30 minutes to his hotel, as thousands of people lined the street to welcome Trump, according to reporters traveling with the president. Many of them waved U.S. and Vietnamese flags.