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The 2012 ASEAN singing contest will open in Ho Chi Minh City on March 5.

Homes and buildings collapsed in the Congolese capital after an arms depot exploded, killing at least 206 people, officials said.

Russian leader Putin reclaimed the Kremlin in an election victory that he declared was honest but the opposition said was marred by serial violations.

Russians in Vietnam cast their ballots in presidential polls organised from February 29 to March 4 by the Russian Embassy in Vietnam.

Reality game show The Amazing Race will be organised for the first time in Vietnam.

More storms are likely to occur this year and earlier than they did last year, warned the Central Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Prevention and Control and the National Search and Rescue Committee.

Why are such agonised, visceral works of art so highly sought-after?

The 2012 ASEAN singing contest will open in Ho Chi Minh City on March 5.

Reports say up to 50 people have died and at least 20 injured after a road crash in eastern Guinea.

Two female Vietnamese scientists were presented with the Kovalevskaya Prize at a ceremony in Hanoi on Mar. 3 to honour their great contributions to science.

Two trains have collided in southern Poland, leaving 14 people dead, local officials say, and 50 hurt.

Cory Dung Tran, a Vietnamese-origin fashion designer in New York, said that the winner of the Vietnam’s Next Top Model 2011, Hoang Thuy has conditions to become an international model.

A string of violent storms scratched away small towns in Indiana and cut off rural communities in Kentucky as an early season tornado outbreak killed more than 30 people.

Authorities in Thua Thien Hue Province have instructed Hue, the former imperial citadel, to take immediate steps to preserve its 150 ancient garden houses as part of preservation project.

The national tourism administration will receive suggestions on the amendment and supplement to tourism policies from now until June for submission to the National Assembly.

After 2 re-investigations, the Long An Province People’s Procuracy has issued the 3rd indictment that confirmed a woman’s confession that she killed her husband last January.

Vietnamese and Chinese Foreign Deputy Ministers opened a hotline between the two Ministries of Foreign Affairs.

Thousands of Australians were ordered to evacuate their homes in Sydney's northwest and elsewhere in New South Wales state as heavy rainfall flooded rivers and waterways.

Market experts have said they expect the consumer price index growth rate to fall to 0.4-0.5% in March due to lower food prices, purchasing power and input prices.