World recognition is being sought for a vast archive of administrative
documents, many of them signed by the Nguyen kings from 1802 to 1945.
Some of them record Viet Nam''s ownership of islands in the East Sea.
Qatar is a peninsula on the western shore of the Ara-bian Gulf. Almost
80 per cent of its population of more than two million people reside in
the city of Doha, the nation''s business and administrative capital.
