Earlier, Air France said it would temporary suspend its non-stop flights linking the two Vietnamese cities to Paris between March 28 and Oct. 30, 2005. Instead, it will service the flights with a stopover in Bangkok for one and a half hours. The airline declared that their code-share contract with Vietnam Airlines for the non-stop flights from Vietnam to Paris would start up again from Oct. 31,...

However, Viet Kieu still anticipate visa exemptions, as the Vietnamese government has already granted them to tourists from Japan and Korea. Visa exemption for ASEAN member states, including Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand will also be applicable by the end of this year, as reported by Vietnam News Agency recently. According to...