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The Vietnam National Mekong Committee held a seminar in Hanoi on building a national action plan to implement the Mekong River basin development strategy.

Catastrophes like Japan's 2011 tsunami cost the world over $3.5 trillion over the last 30 years, a conference heard, as the World Bank called for better disaster planning.

19 crew members of a Vinalines ship lying in the UAE are calling for help as they have been out of food and water and have not been paid for months.

Korean sensation Psy, whose hit song "Gangnam Style" has taken the pop world by storm, will wave the chequered flag at his home grand prix on Sunday, where he will also be performing live.

The World Bank has lowered its economic growth forecast for Vietnam to 5.2% from its earlier forecast of 5.7% given in May, citing unfavorable environments in the region and the world.

Over the last three years, the people living along the Vu Gia – Thu Bon River have been struggling hard with floods in rainy season and facing the drought in the dry season.

Two American scientists won the 2012 Nobel Prize for chemistry for research into how cells respond to external stimuli that is helping to develop better drugs.

Vietnam plans to spend around VND2.7 trillion ($1.3 billion) to increase the average income of poor households nationwide by 160 percent during the period of 2012 – 15.

Toyota said it would recall 7.43 million vehicles globally over a fire risk caused by a power-window defect in models including the popular Camry and Corolla.

Indonesia declared its top security alert, citing "credible information" of a threat to a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the Bali bombings which killed 202 people.

Ticket brokers selling high priced tickets to tourist and boats leaving in no order are placing tourist at risk in Halong Bay.

A number of businesses in Binh Duong Province has turned down to workers from the some central provinces.

Fifty eight years after its liberation from French occupation, Hanoi has now taken on a new face with bright prospects.

There are plans to set up an official National Reading Day in Vietnam to encourage the once strong Vietnamese fondness for reading.

Vietnamese students have to learn harder and do more home exercises than foreign students, but this does not mean that Vietnamese are better than foreign.

Inviting supporters to taunt Barack Obama with chants of "four more weeks," rival Mitt Romney surged into the lead in US opinion polls.

Most provinces in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta are experiencing a shortage of medical workers because preferential policies are not attractive enough.

Europe must do more to tackle a fiscal crisis that is heaping extra pressure on an already-strained global financial system, the International Monetary Fund warned in a new report.

The Vietnamese football team appears to be rather lucky in the coming qualifying round of the 2015 Asian Cup.