A Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, computer sales person looks on Friday, Nov. 10, 2006. Intel Corp. is expected to announce that it will triple its initial $300 billion investment in Vietnam, expanding the size of a chip testing and assembly plant it is building in Ho Chi Minh City. Company officials are expected to make the announcement later today. AP Photo logo AP Photo 32 months ago

A Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, computer sales person looks on Friday, Nov. 10, 2006. Intel Corp. is expected to announce that it will triple its initial $300 billion investment in Vietnam, expanding the size of a chip testing and assembly plant it is building in Ho Chi Minh City. Company officials are expected to make the announcement later today.

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  2. A street vendor walks past a fashion shop with partly dressed mannequins in downtown Hanoi on July 2, 2009. Shop mannequins displaying underwear will have to take cover under a regulation passed by authorities in Vietnam's commercial capital. The models must no longer be visible from shop fronts under the rule controlling various forms of advertising in the southern Ho Chi Minh city, former Saigon.
  3. A picture taken on February 29, 2009 show newly built buildings in the fast growing southern part of Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam's economy grew at 3.9 percent in the first half of the year, the lowest level in a decade, but is on course to meet the government's full-year target, officials said.
  4. A picture taken on February 25, 2009 show motorcyclists riding past residential buildings under construction at the fast growing southern part of Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam's economy grew at 3.9 percent in the first half of the year, the lowest level in a decade, but is on course to meet the government's full-year target, officials said.
  5. A picture taken on February 25, 2009 show residential buildings under construction at the fast growing southern part of Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam's economy grew at 3.9 percent in the first half of the year, the lowest level in a decade, but is on course to meet the government's full-year target, officials said.
  6. A female street vendor looks at a shop window displaying the latest fashion lingerie in the coastal city of Da Nang on September 7, 1995. Shop mannequins displaying underwear will have to take cover under a regulation passed by authorities in Vietnam's commercial capital. The models must no longer be visible from shop fronts under the rule controlling various forms of advertising in southern Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, the Phap Luat Ho Chi Minh City newspaper said on its website. "Putting the mannequin somewhere that people in the streets cannot see it is OK," on June 19, 2009 the report quoted local official Le Quang Vinh as saying.
  7. This photo taken in May, 2009 shows Vietnamese lawyer Le Cong Dinh during a meeting in Ho Chi Minh City. Communist Vietnam has defended on June 18, 2009 its commitment to "freedom of speech" in the face of widening global opposition to the recent arrest of a prominent lawyer and writer. Dinh, 40, was arrested on June 13, 2009 for allegedly colluding "with domestic and foreign reactionaries to sabotage the Vietnamese state," the government's Vietnam News Agency said.
  8. In this Dec. 24, 2007 photo, Vietnamese lawyer Le Cong Dinh is seen in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The U.S. Embassy in Vietnam expressed deep concern Tuesday, June 16, 2009, about the arrest of the prominent lawyer known for his pro-democracy writings and defense of human rights activists. Dinh was arrested Saturday, June 13, 2009, at his home in Ho Chi Minh City and accused of violating Article 88 of Vietnam's criminal code, which prohibits distributing information harmful to the government.
  9. A photo of a local police newspaper page on June 16, 2009 in Hanoi shows a photo of lawyer Le Cong Dinh being arrested in Ho Chi Minh city on June 13, 2009. Calls mounted for the release of the prominent lawyer in communist Vietnam, with Human Rights Watch saying his arrest would have a "chilling effect" on the country's legal professsion.
  10. A Buddhist monk (R) displays a container holding what is believed to be a relic of Buddha for devotees during a welcoming ceremony for the relics in Hanoi June 6, 2009. The relics, a gift from Myanmar in 1956 according to Vietnam's Buddha Association, were originally housed in Ho Chi Minh city and will now be kept by the association in Hanoi.
  11. A Buddhist monk carries a container holding what is believed to be the relics of Buddha during a welcoming ceremony for the relics in Hanoi June 6, 2009. The relics, a gift from Myanmar in 1956 according to Vietnam's Buddha Association, were originally housed in Ho Chi Minh city and will now be kept by the association in Hanoi.
  12. Devotees attend a welcoming ceremony for what is believed to be the relics of Buddha in Hanoi June 6, 2009. The relics, a gift from Myanmar in 1956 according to Vietnam's Buddha Association, were originally housed in Ho Chi Minh city and will now be kept by the association in Hanoi.
  13. A Buddhist monk prays during a welcoming ceremony for what is believed to be the relics of Buddha in Hanoi June 6, 2009. The relics, a gift from Myanmar in 1956 according to Vietnam's Buddha Association, were originally housed in Ho Chi Minh city and will now be kept by the association in Hanoi.
  14. A Buddhist monk carries a container holding what is believed to be the relics of Buddha during a welcoming ceremony in Hanoi June 6, 2009. The relics, a gift from Myanmar in 1956 according to Vietnam's Buddha Association, were originally housed in Ho Chi Minh city and will now be kept by the association in Hanoi.
  15. Buddhist monks carry a container holding what is believed to be the relics of Buddha during a welcoming ceremony in Hanoi June 6, 2009. The relics, a gift from Myanmar in 1956 according to Vietnam's Buddha Association, were originally housed in Ho Chi Minh city and will now be kept by the association in Hanoi.
  16. Trinh Quan Huan, Vietnam's vice minister of health, center, talks to hospital staff members concerning preparations to fight against swine flu, at a hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on Monday, June 1, 2009. An American woman of Vietnamese origin and her 9-year-old son who recently returned from the U.S. have tested positive for swine flu, bringing the country's total cases to three, doctors said Monday.

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