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Defence Academy honour guards march during their graduation ceremony in Yokosuka, some 80 kilometres south of Tokyo on March 22, 2010. A total of 375 students graduated from the academy including five from Thailand, two from Vietnam, two from Indonesia and two from Mongolia.

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Graduates of the country's Defence Academy stand at attention during their graduation ceremony in Yokosuka, some 80 kilometres south of Tokyo on March 22, 2010. A total of 375 students graduated from the academy including five from Thailand, two from Vietnam, two from Indonesia and two...

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Graduates of the country's Defence Academy throw their caps into the air at the end of the graduation ceremony in Yokosuka, some 80 kilometres south of Tokyo on March 22, 2010. A total of 375 students graduated from the academy including five from Thailand, two from Vietnam, two from...

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Graduates of the country's Defence Academy queue to receive certificates during their graduation ceremony in Yokosuka, some 80 kilometres south of Tokyo on March 22, 2010. A total of 375 students graduated from the academy including five from Thailand, two from Vietnam, two from...

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Japanese Defence Minister Toshimi Kitazawa delivers a speech while attening the graduation ceremony for the country's Defence Academy in Yokosuka, some 80 kilometres south of Tokyo on March 22, 2010. A total of 375 students graduated from the academy including five from Thailand, two...

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Vendors carry their wares in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Thursday, March 18, 20010.

Vietnamese dissident priest Father Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly (R) is escorted by police as he faces a court in Vietnam's central Hue City in this March 30, 2007 file photo. Vietnam freed one of its highest-profile political prisoners on March 15, 2010, releasing outspoken Catholic priest...

Vietnamese detainee Father Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly talks to the media at Nam Ha prison in Ba Sao county, Nam Ha province, 80 km (50 miles) south of Hanoi, in this February 1, 2005 file photo. Vietnam freed one of its highest-profile political prisoners on March 15, 2010, releasing...

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Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry Chairman Vu Tien Loc attends a press conference following the Asian Bussiness Summit meeting in Tokyo on March 15, 2010. Representatives from 13 business organizations from 11 Asian economies came together in Tokyo to take part in the Asian...

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A street vendor pushes her vegetable cart in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on Thursday, March 18, 2010.

A man works at an Italian invested scooter and motorcycle Piaggio factory in Vietnam's northern Vinh Phuc province, outside Hanoi March 17, 2010. Piaggio SpA, the Italian company that makes the iconic Vespa scooters, has relocated its Asia headquarters to Vietnam from Singapore and will...

Cambodian vendor transport goods on truck across the Cambodia-Vietnam border at Bavet in Svay Rieng province 120km (72miles) east of Phnom Penh, February 26, 2010.

Cambodian vendors transport goods using motorcycle at the Cambodia-Vietnam border at Bavet in Svay Rieng province 120 km (72 miles) east of Phnom Penh, February 26, 2010.

A woman pumps petrol at a Petrolimex petrol station in Hanoi March 18, 2010. Vietnam plans to sell stakes in leading telecoms firm MobiFone, the country's top oil product distributor Petrolimex and state lender BIDV this year among major state-owned companies, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan...

A Cambodian farmer collects water for his crops during the dry season in Kandal province, on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, March 18 ,2010. Severe drought has hit Southeast Asian countries, parching the region's major river, Mekong, whose water level has dropped to only 33 centimeters,...

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Vietnam veteran and American Red Cross volunteer Craig Johnson, 63, of Savannah, is on hand to salute every soldier of the 48th Brigade Combat Team as the first flight home arrives at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010. Georgia's 48th Brigade spent the last year...

Catholic priest Nguyen Van Ly is seen in Hue in this March 15, 2010 family handout photo. Vietnam freed one of its highest-profile political prisoners on Monday, releasing outspoken Catholic priest Nguyen Van Ly five years before his sentence was up, a U.S.-based advocacy group said.

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In this book cover image released by LSU Press, "On the Front Lines of the Cold War: An American Correspondent's Journal from the Chinese Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam (From Our Own Correspondent)" by Seymour Topping is shown.

Dancers from Vietnam's National Opera and Ballet perform during a reception for foreign diplomats hosted by the Foreign Ministry to celebrate the upcoming lunar new year festival Tet at the Opera House in Hanoi February 5, 2010. The traditional festival Tet will take place from February...

Vietnam's General-Secretary Nong Duc Manh speaks during a ceremony to mark the 80th foundation of the Communist Party of Vietnam in Hanoi February 2, 2010. Vietnam celebrates the 80th anniversary on Tuesday of its ruling party, which the late revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh founded in...

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Nguyen Tan Dung, Prime Minister of Vietnam, getures while speaking during a session 'Toward an East Asian Community' at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Saturday Jan. 30, 2010.

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Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, gestures while speaking on a panel"Rethinking How to Feed the World"at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Friday, Jan. 29, 2010.

Cuban school children carry a portrait of Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh, leader of the communist Viet Minh organization, during celebrations for Cuban's independence hero Jose Marti's 157th birth anniversary in Havana January 28, 2010.

Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung attends a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 28, 2010.

New Zealand's Foreign Minister Murray McCully (L) talks with Vietnam's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem at the Government Guest House in Hanoi January 26, 2010. McCully is in Hanoi for a two-day visit.