81.   US officials reportedly raised their cases on numerous occasions with Vietnamese authorities, who are eager to win trade concessional US trade status.

82.   Vietnamese authorities appear unable to stop rice smuggling and only a small part of illegally exported rice is seized by customs officials.

83.   Vietnamese authorities have for nearly two years refused to agree to the nomination by Pope John Paul II of apostolic administrator Huynh Van Nghi as his successor.

84.   Vietnamese authorities also want to revamp the Tan Son Nhat airport outside Ho Chi Minh city.

85.   Vietnamese authorities have broken up two networks smuggling goods by sea from Hong Kong, the Communist Party newspaper Nhan Dan said Tuesday.

86.   Vietnamese authorities have executed a policeman found guilty at a retrial of shooting dead a young man after his earlier acquital sparked public outrage, a report said Monday.

87.   Vietnamese authorities stepped in last November to stop a campaign launched by the Buddhist church to help victims of flooding in the Mekong delta.

88.   Vietnamese authorities have arrested ethnic Montagnards along its Cambodian border for celebrating Christmas and attempting to organise prayer ceremonies, a human rights group said here Tuesday.

89.   Vietnamese authorities have refused to allow the next James Bond movie to be filmed either on the spectacular beaches of Halong Bay or in Ho Chi Minh City.

90.   It said the office would be in Hanoi, and the Vietnamese authorities have granted approval.