21.   Three Vietnamese nationals face the death penalty here after being arrested for plotting against the communist regime from neighbouring Cambodia and Thailand, prosecutors said Wednesday.

22.   Two men, including one Vietnamese national, were shot by the gunmen Saturday.

23.   Two Vietnamese nationals were injured overnight in an attack by far-right skinhead youths here, police said Sunday.

24.   US Ambassador to Thailand David Lambertson said he was supporting the Vietnamese nationals request and is urging immigration authorities to reconsider their decision.

25.   Two passengers, an Algerian off-duty policeman and a Vietnamese national, were shot to death on Saturday, their bodies also hurled out of the aircraft.

26.   The Algerian authorities confirmed Sunday that a Vietnamese national had been shot dead by Islamic gunmen who hijacked an Air France airliner at Algiers airport.

27.   The bodies of two Vietnamese nationals were found strangled to death in eastern Germany, a police spokesman said Tuesday.

28.   The bullet-riddled bodies of six Vietnamese nationals were found in a Berlin apartment Sunday, police announced.

29.   The hijackers on Saturday killed an off-duty Algerian policeman and a Vietnamese national who sources in Hanoi identified as commercial attache from the Vietnamese embassy in Algiers.

30.   The nine were scheduled to fly back to Hanoi with scores of fellow Vietnamese nationals on Tuesday.