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Vinacomin will export approximately 25,000 tonnes of coal to South Africa next month while planning to ship an addtional of 18,000 tonnes to Cuba in November.

Vietnam’s number-one badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh has advanced to the second round of the men’s singles at the ongoing Yonex Sunrise Vietnam Open 2012 tournament.

Hanoi has applied a change in office and school hours, but there has not been much improvements on major streets.

A pack of fake one-hundred dollar bills has been haunting DTiNews' Brian Webb.

Wrongdoings at Vinalines and the appointment of its former chairman topped the Q&A session for chief inspector of the Government Inspectorate.

At least 52 Kenyans were hacked or burnt to death in ethnic clashes between two rival groups, the worst single attack since deadly post-election violence four years ago, police said Wednesday.

Taiwanese authorities said nearly 2,000 people had been evacuated as the island braced for Typhoon Tembin.

Vietnam and China’s Ministries of Transport held a ceremony at the Huu Nghi Border Gate to inaugurate the new highways linking Hanoi with Nanning and Shenzhen in China.

The Deputy general director of the ACB denied rumors that the bank’s general director Ly Xuan Hai was arrested yesterday evening.

The PM called for more awareness against corruption at the 18th session of the Central Steering Committee for Anti-Corruption.

The British royal family said nude photographs of Prince Harry cavorting with friends on holiday in Las Vegas were genuine.

The capital of Hanoi and the central ancient city of Hoi An have been listed in the 2012 top-ten attractive travel destinations in Asia.

Syrian army shells crashed into southern Damascus on Wednesday and helicopters fired rockets and machineguns.

China's rural inequality is nearing "danger" levels as hundreds of millions of people shun farming for better paid city work, causing a widening wealth gap, a report said.

A hands-on French education method or the “La main à la Pâte” programme will be piloted at junior high schools in five districts in the 2012-2013 academic year.

The running event Sapa21 Challenge Race for charity purposes will be organised in the tourist hotspot Sapa in northern Vietnam in a bid to raise funds to offer free swimming classes to poor children in the central region.

Global miner BHP Billiton on Wednesday announced a 34.8 percent dive in annual net profit to $15.42 billion and delayed a key project, citing weakness in commodity prices and cost pressures.

Hanoi will take thousands of metres of land in Thong Nhat Park to build parking facilities.

Hundreds of hectares of natural reforest in Quang Ninh province, the most beautiful forest in the locality, has been devastated simply because people need charcoal to do cooking.