DOCTORS have removed a bullet from the heart of a Vietnamese soldier nearly four decades after he was shot by US troops during the Vietnam War, doctors said yesterday.

AS bird flu cases rise at a disturbing pace in Turkey, new research offers a bit of hope - it’s likely that many people who get it don’t become seriously ill and quickly recover.

Vu Ky, the long-time personal secretary and confidant of Vietnam’s revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh, has died, a doctor said.