FBI chief visits Vietnam: US embassy

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HANOI (AFP) — United States FBI chief Robert Mueller met top Vietnamese police officials Wednesday, a day before he opens an office for the agency in Phnom Penh that will cover Cambodia and Vietnam, the US embassy said.

Meeting senior Vietnamese Public Security Ministry officials on a tour that also took in China, the Federal Bureau of Investigation director thanked Vietnam for its law enforcement cooperation, a US embassy statement said.

Mueller wanted to "further enhance cooperation in a variety of critical areas in this era of increasing transnational crime," the statement said.

"No one person, no one agency, no one police department, and no one country has all the answers," Mueller was quoted saying in the statement. "This is why our relationship with...