71.   Vietnamese leaders will send congratulatory messages to British prime minister-designate Tony Blair, a foreign ministry spokesman said Friday.

72.   Vietnamese leaders have frequently called for Japanese firms to overcome timidity about investing in Vietnam and commit some of the capital the country needs for its development plans.

73.   Vietnamese leaders have called for bureaucrats to be required to reveal their wealth for at least the past three years.

74.   Vietnamese leaders, who courted Japanese financial assistance and backing for their return to the international community, said it was time to turn the page.

75.   Kiet and Deve Gowda met twice for official talks after the Vietnamese leader arrived here on the first leg of a four-day trip to India and Bangladesh.

76.   Luong is the first top Vietnamese leader to visit Stalinist North Korea in four decades.

77.   Kiet and his Indian counterpart H.D. Deve Gowda held talks after the Vietnamese leader started his two-day visit to India.

78.   Officials said Kiet and his Indian counterpart H.D. Deve Gowda held preliminary talks after the Vietnamese leader started his two-day visit to India earlier Saturday.

79.   On Sunday he will lay a wreath at the mausoleum of Vietnamese revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh and visit a Japanese school before leaving for Singapore.

80.   Ramos is to officially welcome the Vietnamese leader at the riverside palace shortly after his arrival at Manila airport on Wednesday, after which both will meet privately.