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The Interior Department of Da Nang City announced its plan for organizing competitive exams to recruit civil servants for managerial posts, with candidates coming from both inside and outside State agencies.

The Vietnamese Government has issued a number of policies and spent thousands of billions of Vietnam dong dealing with the post-war consequences of bombs and mines.

ASEAN Foreign Ministers gathered in Phnom Penh to discuss preparatory work for the 20 th ASEAN Summit, which will take place on Apr. 3 and 4.

UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had accepted an April 10 deadline to start implementing a peace plan.

Seven people were killed and three injured when a gunman opened fire at a private college near San Francisco, officials said.

Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai joined Asian leaders, scholars and executives at the opening ceremony of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) conference in Hainan, China, on April 2.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong will pay an official friendship visit to Cuba and a State-level visit to Brazil in the near future.

Eurozone unemployment jumped to an all-time high in February, hitting southern nations the hardest as the social toll from the debt crisis grips the 17-nation bloc, official figures showed.

HCM City leaders and representatives of various departments toured Can Gio District to check the damage caused by Storm ‘Phakar’, and to speed up restoration work.

Inflation dominated the discussion at the Government meeting in Hanoi, but at the press conference immediately following, the hottest topic was extra fees for vehicles in congested cities.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked the State Bank of Vietnam to press ahead with drastic action to keep inflation at a single digit figure and maintain an appropriate economic growth of 6 percent.

Thirty-one people were killed Monday when a passenger plane crashed moments after takeoff in an oil-rich Siberian region in the latest accident to hit Russia's crisis-prone aviation industry.

After blowing through Binh Thuan and Ba Ria-Vung Tau Provinces, tropical storm Pakhar hit HCM City, and did not cause serious damage or human loss.

The operator of Keangnam Landmark Tower in Hanoi has announced the application of new monthly service fees.

Vietnamese hopeful Nguyen Thi Lua has taken a berth to the world’s largest sporting event after wining a silver medal at the 2012 Olympic-Asian Wrestling Qualifiers in Kazakhstan.

The General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Nguyen Phu Trong, will pay an official visit to Cuba and a State-level visit to Brazil in the near future.

Western and Arab nations called for Syria's Bashar al-Assad to be given a deadline to meet the terms of a peace plan.

The 16th ASEAN finance ministers' meeting closed in Phnom Penh on March 30, with an agreement to boost regional financial integration, to make the ASEAN Economic Community a reality by 2015.

Domestic coffee businesses continue hit snags as farmers still speculate products and sell them based on rumours.