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Police arrested Miss South Mekong 2009 for allegedly running an escort service, which involved models and beauty contestants.

Vietnam joins the 150 or so countries around the globe to celebrate World Environment Day with a series of events starting in Quang Ninh Province.

55-year-old T.K.P of HCM City might never have imagined a day when her siblings and adoptive daughter would get into a dispute over her fortune, but it happened after she passed away.

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta visited USNS Richard E.Byrd, a dry cargo/ammunition ship, which has anchored at Cam Ranh Bay in central Vietnam for maintenance.

A plane carrying 153 people plunged into a residential area of Nigeria's largest city, with all those aboard presumed dead.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan had a meeting with Li Jiheng, Governor of Yunnan province, on June 2 as part of his working visit to China.

Referring to the case of Denmark recently suspending funds to three out of four research programmes in Vietnam, Bui Quang Vinh, minister of Planning and Investment, stressed that any wrongdoings or misuse of ODA will be severely dealt with.

Hundreds of Egyptians occupied Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday after a night of rage against what they feel are lenient sentences given to ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak and his security chiefs.

A total of more than 963,000 students sit high-school graduation exams on the morning of June 2 with their first subject being literature.

Sovereignty disputes at sea should be directly settled between concerned parties, said Vietnam's Deputy Defence Minister Nguyen Chi Vinh.

The US will shift the bulk of its naval fleet to the Pacific by 2020 as part of a strategic focus on Asia, Pentagon chief Leon Panetta said.

Illegal sand mining in the Sai Gon River has caused severe erosion of the river's banks, including farmland in Cu Chi District.

A filmmaking team from Thailand began to shot a documentary featuring the daily life of Vietnamese people living on the banks of Mekong River.

The number of interbank transactions have risen sharply after SBV cut its deposit interest rate by 1% to 11% per year.

Megaupload has filed papers in US District Court to dismiss the federal government's massive online piracy case against the file-sharing website and its founder.

US added a scant 69,000 jobs in May and the unemployment rate rose for the first time in almost a year, spelling more trouble for President Obama's reelection.

Bad news about domestic economy and changes in world market would be a big challenge for Vietnamese banks' plan to issue international bonds in 2012.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton flew to Tromsoe in the Arctic Circle to see first hand the way climate change is opening a once frozen region to competition for vast oil reserves.

The East Asia Summit on tourism, trade and travel was held in Bangkok , Thailand, as part of the World Economic Forum on East Asia .