https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Slovakia may freeze diplomatic relations with Vietnam if allegations that it used the EU country to secretly transport a Vietnamese oil executive back to Hanoi are confirmed, a Slovak foreign ministry spokesman told AFP on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.de/20181021/berlin-kidnapping-leads-to-diplomatic-freeze-between-slovakia-and-vietnam Sun, 21 Oct 2018 17:40:07 +0200 berlin-kidnapping-leads-to-diplomatic-freeze-between-slovakia-and-vietnam A German court on Wednesday sentenced a Vietnamese man to nearly four years in jail for taking part in a brazen Cold War-style kidnapping ordered by Hanoi of an oil executive from a Berlin park. https://www.thelocal.de/20180725/germany-jails-vietnamese-man-who-aided-cold-war-style-abduction Wed, 25 Jul 2018 19:00:41 +0200 germany-jails-vietnamese-man-who-aided-cold-war-style-abduction Last summer a former Vietnamese state official was walking through a central Berlin park with his mistress when he has abducted by armed men. A trial which starts on Tuesday will pose questions about how he ended up in Hanoi a few days later. https://www.thelocal.de/20180424/trial-could-shed-light-on-violent-cold-war-kidnapping-in-berlins-tiergarten-park Tue, 24 Apr 2018 10:53:45 +0200 trial-could-shed-light-on-violent-cold-war-kidnapping-in-berlins-tiergarten-park German prosecutors Wednesday laid charges against a suspected Vietnamese agent over last year's Cold War-style kidnapping of a fugitive state company official in Berlin which has badly strained bilateral ties. https://www.thelocal.de/20180307/federal-prosecutors-charge-vietnamese-man-over-cold-war-style-abduction Wed, 07 Mar 2018 15:08:55 +0100 federal-prosecutors-charge-vietnamese-man-over-cold-war-style-abduction A Vietnamese former oil executive allegedly kidnapped from Germany was jailed for life on Monday for embezzlement, state media reported, his second life sentence tied to a corruption crackdown in the communist country. https://www.thelocal.de/20180205/vietnamese-oil-exec-kidnapped-in-berlin-gets-second-life-sentence Mon, 05 Feb 2018 09:40:32 +0100 vietnamese-oil-exec-kidnapped-in-berlin-gets-second-life-sentence A Vietnamese former state oil executive who was allegedly kidnapped from Germany was on Monday jailed for life for embezzlement, in the highest-profile corruption trial to target the Communist country's business and political elite. https://www.thelocal.de/20180122/vietnam-oil-exec-kidnapped-from-germany-jailed-for-life-in-graft-trial Mon, 22 Jan 2018 10:06:36 +0100 vietnam-oil-exec-kidnapped-from-germany-jailed-for-life-in-graft-trial The corruption trial of a Vietnamese former oil executive who was allegedly kidnapped from Germany opened on Monday, a high-profile case that can carry the death sentence. https://www.thelocal.de/20180108/vietnamese-oil-exec-kidnapped-from-germany-goes-on-trial Mon, 08 Jan 2018 10:19:03 +0100 vietnamese-oil-exec-kidnapped-from-germany-goes-on-trial Germany said Friday it had expelled a second Vietnamese diplomat over what it calls the brazen kidnapping by Hanoi agents of a fugitive state company official in Berlin. https://www.thelocal.de/20170922/germany-expels-second-vietnam-diplomat-in-row-over-berlin-park-kidnapping Fri, 22 Sep 2017 16:02:14 +0200 germany-expels-second-vietnam-diplomat-in-row-over-berlin-park-kidnapping Germany on Thursday remanded in custody a suspected Vietnamese agent accused in the brazen kidnapping of a fugitive state company official in Berlin last month, a case that has badly strained bilateral ties. https://www.thelocal.de/20170824/how-a-kidnapping-in-a-berlin-park-has-led-to-a-diplomatic-spat-between-germany-and-vietnam Thu, 24 Aug 2017 11:05:12 +0200 how-a-kidnapping-in-a-berlin-park-has-led-to-a-diplomatic-spat-between-germany-and-vietnam Germany on Wednesday accused Vietnam of kidnapping a former oil executive and asylum seeker on German soil, but who is this man stirring up an international row? https://www.thelocal.de/20170803/meet-the-the-lexus-driving-vietnamese-tycoon-who-was-kidnapped-in-berlin Thu, 03 Aug 2017 17:07:15 +0200 meet-the-the-lexus-driving-vietnamese-tycoon-who-was-kidnapped-in-berlin Germany on Wednesday accused Hanoi of kidnapping an asylum seeker on German soil, as Berlin furiously summoned Vietnam's ambassador and expelled one of the southeast Asian nation's spies. https://www.thelocal.de/20170802/berlin-accuses-vietnam-of-kidnapping-asylum-seeker-on-german-soil Wed, 02 Aug 2017 16:10:16 +0200 berlin-accuses-vietnam-of-kidnapping-asylum-seeker-on-german-soil German Vice-Chancellor Philipp Rösler is campaigning to save the Catholic orphanage in Vietnam where he spent nine months of his childhood before being adopted by German parents. https://www.thelocal.de/20120920/45101 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:17:00 +0200 45101 Fresh from a euro crisis meeting with France, German Chancellor Angela Merkel embarks Monday on a visit to Vietnam and Mongolia, hoping to clinch deals on trade and precious raw materials. https://www.thelocal.de/20111010/38109 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:33:00 +0200 38109 The döner kebab, Germany’s most famous street snack, is making a splash in the unlikely city of Hanoi, Vietnam thanks to an enterprising cook at the Goethe Institute. https://www.thelocal.de/20100108/24453 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:26:00 +0100 24453 A Vietnamese reporter has been sacked after he made a blog post about the Berlin Wall in which he criticised his country's former communist ally, the Soviet Union. https://www.thelocal.de/20090828/21545 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:03:00 +0200 21545 Some 200 people protested Monday at a Berlin airport against a mass deportation of Vietnamese asylum-seekers from Germany and Poland. https://www.thelocal.de/20090609/19801 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:01:00 +0200 19801 German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on a visit to Vietnam on Friday that Berlin will greatly expand its economic and educational presence in the country. https://www.thelocal.de/20080229/10425 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:46:00 +0100 10425