11.   In its statement, the State Department said Vietnamese embassies were informing would-be tourists that they must postpone their trips until after the congress in Hanoi.

12.   A man of Vietnamese origin attacked the Vietnamese embassy in Paris, ripping off a metal gate with a bulldozer and shooting at security guards, police said Tuesday.

13.   Bang, who has studied in Australia and worked as third secretary to the Vietnamese embassy in London, is fluent in English and Spanish.

14.   Biggs said he had written in protest to the Vietnamese embassy here and is organizing a letter-writing campaign by American churches.

15.   The Vietnamese embassy condemned Wednesday the murder by suspected Khmer Rouge guerrillas of four ethnic Vietnamese and two Khmer nationals in Kandal province which borders the Cambodian capital.

16.   The Vietnamese embassy here has protested the massacre and called for a full investigation into the incident.

17.   They alleged that the Vietnamese embassy in Manila has been slow to attend to its detained nationals.

18.   Vietnamese embassy officials here were unavailable for comment Friday due to a public holiday and a US embassy spokesman said he had no immediate comment.

19.   Vietnamese embassies are also informing would-be tourists that they must postpone their trips until after the congress in Hanoi, it said.

20.   Vietnamese embassy officials could not immediately be reached for comment but workers outside the compound were putting the finishing touches on a new security wall.