41.   The group, affiliated with the International Federation of Human Rights, called on Chirac to raise its concerns during meetings with Vietnamese leaders.

42.   The planned visits would be the first by a top Vietnamese party leader to either country.

43.   The report said the founders claim they can receive supernatural power from deceased Vietnamese leaders.

44.   The Vietnamese leader, who had been in Brazil, plans to visit a conference of non-aligned leaders in Colombia and the United Nations in New York.

45.   The Vietnamese leader is to visit Shanghai, Tianjin and other cities during his visit, the Vietnam News Agency said.

46.   Top Vietnamese leaders announced new legislation Thursday that would cut the high costs and bureaucratic barriers that have plagued foreign investors in the country.

47.   Top three Vietnamese leaders to quite National Assembly.

48.   Truckloads of riot police later took up positions around the Royal Palace where Phieu was staying, the highest-ranking Vietnamese leader to visit Cambodia since elections last year.

49.   U.S. State Department experts on human rights discussed religious conditions when they conferred with Vietnamese leaders in Hanoi last week.

50.   Vietnamese leaders are especially eager to make friends with countries such as Bahrain that have the money or technology Vietnam needs to help develop its backward economy.