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He has been spoiling for a fight for months but now it is official: US President Barack Obama will hold the first proper political rallies of his reelection bid in early May.

The HCM City Department of Transport has proposed that the city People’s Committee ban business activities on the roadsides of 112 streets in 16 districts.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has submitted the draft of the National Tiger Conservation Programme by 2022 to the Prime Minister.

Ten Vietnamese records in the intellectual property were announced at a ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City.

Vietnam and the UK have vowed to continue strongly promoting bilateral economic, trade and investment cooperation, describing it as the key area of their cooperation.

The government is drafting a circular that prohibit organisations and individual employers from hiring children for hazardous work.

Students nowadays do not want to study at pedagogical schools to become teachers, even though they do not have to pay tuition for university study.

Domestic air travel during the coming month-end holidays is expected to see a sharp drop in the number of travellers, with travel companies set to lose hundreds of millions of VND.

The IMF said the Vietnamese Government’s macroeconomy stabilising policies have started to yield high effect, with quickly decreasing inflation, trade deficit and pressure on VND.

The United States scrambled to contain the fallout from the discovery of mad cow disease in California as the top beef exporter insisted the outbreak posed no threat to consumers.

Bassoonist Van Thanh Ha will perform recitals at the Workers Theatre, featuring material from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Ferdinand David's Concerto for Bassoon.

Many banks have recently met with serious obstacles in promoting lending despite abundant liquidity and continuously cutting interest rates on loans.

The Department of Animal Health has warned localities about the wide spread of blue-ear pig disease.

Mitt Romney effectively claimed the Republican presidential nomination, reveling in a five-state primary sweep and urging voters to help him oust President Barack Obama.

Minister of Transport Dinh La Thang answered questions from National Assembly deputies on problems in the country's traffic system.

EVN has been asked to invite competent foreign contractors to deal with the leakage problem at Song Tranh 2 hydropower plant.

President Truong Tan Sang on April 24 affirmed that Vietnam is willing to open its doors for Mongolian businesses to invest in the country.

The security force of South Africa’s OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg arrested a Vietnamese man when he was about to leave the country with three rhino horns, authorities said.

Bartenders from the top luxury hotels and bars across the country are competing to get a place in the Global Final of Diageo Reserve World Class 2012 to be organised in Brazil.