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Polar bears diverged from their closest relatives 600,000 years ago, far earlier than previously thought, suggesting more challenges in the face of climate change, scientists said.

The prediction was confirmed by Minister of Planning and Investment Bui Quang Vinh at a working session of the National Assembly Standing Committee on April 20.

The Vietnam High Equality Education for All report was aimed at analysing the performance of domestic primary and secondary schooling during 1992-2008.

Britain voiced its frustration at the legal tangle in the European Court of Human Rights preventing London from deporting a radical cleric, as it hosted talks on taming the court's powers.

Outfits for spring and summer by Vietnamese designers will be on show tonight at Hanoi Fashion Week.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung and the Vietnamese delegation arrived in Tokyo, Japan to attend the 4th Mekong-Japan Summit at the invitation of Japanese Prime Minister Noda Yoshihiko.

Air cargo security in Asia and the Pacific is being hotly discussed at a workshop in Ho Chi Minh City to facilitate trade exchanges and counter terrorism.

Experts have proposed that Hanoi should not encourage taxi development but foster public transport instead.

Vietnam is struggling to deal with illegally trafficked offal coming via its northern border gates.

A wave of apparently coordinated bombing and shooting attacks in seven different provinces across Iraq killed at least 38 people and wounded more than 170, security officials said.

Many farmers in Dalat City have actively invested billions of VND to establish plant tissue culture laboratories and create high quality breeds of plants for export.

Credit institutions which have high bad debts or violate the regulations on capital contributions will have their credit growth restricted.

Hundreds of K-12 students at two schools in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai risk their life to wade a fast-flowing river to get to school.

China says 16 endangered finless porpoises have been found dead since the beginning of the year and experts blame water pollution and climate change.

Economics-related university streams are the most in demand this year while social sciences and humanities courses attracted fewer applications.

The Ministry of Health will invite experts of the World Health Organisation to investigate the unidentified skin disease in Quang Ngai Province's Ba To District.

Landslides and pollution have become a major threat to the people living around the dump site of Phan Me Coal Mine in Thai Nguyen Province.

Scientists’ research works have warned that tsunami is a real risk for Vietnam, and that this needs further through research.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung left Hanoi on April 19 bound for Tokyo to attend the fourth Mekong-Japan Summit, scheduled for April 20-21.