The Czech Republic always attaches importance to its relations with Vietnam and lists the country among 12 trade priority markets during the 2011-2015 period.
Vietnam attaches importance to developing friendship and comprehensive cooperation with Chile, said president Truong Tan Sang at the talks with Chilean President Sebastian Pinera Echenique.
French police shot dead a self-declared Al-Qaeda militant wanted for a series of killings of soldiers and Jews, ending a tense 32-hour siege in the south of France.
The international community will subsidise Afghan security forces by more than $4 billion a year for a decade after US-led combat forces leave Afghanistan in 2014, President Hamid Karzai said.
Vietnam’s Next Top Model 2011’s runner-up Nguyen Thi Tra My has just become the third runner-up at the 6th annual Top Model Worldwide modeling contest in London.
Investigation Police Ha Tinh Province said they would take strict action against those responsible for illegal felling of trees and denuding forest land in Huong Son District's Son Hong Commune.
While the “personal vehicle circulation fee” is still a controversy, Minister of Transport Dinh La Thang has suggested calling it as “personal vehicle restriction fee”.
The UN Security Council demanded that Syria immediately implement a peace plan by special envoy Kofi Annan, even as government forces pounded rebel zones around Damascus and Homs.
Despite the rising rice export prices, many farmers still have to pile up paddies in their houses since buyers, if any, always demand dirt cheap prices.
About 20-30% of agricultural land in Vietnam is expected to be flooded by the year 2100 due to rising sea levels, leading to a vast reduction in the country's food production capacity.