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Around USD1.4 billion will be needed to build a new Hanoi-Lang Son expressway, with USD500 million in support from the Asian Development Bank.

The first traditional eco-friendly bamboo longhouse, sponsored by World Wildlife Fund, was inaugurated in Ta Lai village in Tan Phu District in the southern province of Dong Nai.

Universities and junior colleges complained that the rigid enrollment regulations would put big difficulties for them; but the Ministry of Education and Training said it “wont’s make concessions.”

The BBC Television has covered cruise safety in Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay.

A Moroccan immigrant was arrested as he tried to carry out an Al-Qaeda suicide bombing at the US Capitol, under the watch of the FBI in a sting operation, officials said.

The family of a contestant said that the producer of the Vietnam's Got Talents had arranged the show, the jury is said to be “acting” too much.

Hanoians face huge difficulties in finding parking for their vehicles after the parking ban on hundreds of streets has taken effect.

Iran's nuclear ambitions could trigger "a new Cold War" more perilous than that between the West and the Soviet Union, the British Foreign Secretary warned.

NA Vice Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan met with a visiting delegation of the Thailand-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Group headed by President Paijit Sree Warakan.

Bird flu experts ruled that research on a mutant form of the virus should be made public.

The World Bank (WB) will provide Vietnam with financial and technical assistance to restructure State-owned enterprises, said WB Country Director Victoria Kwakwa.

For the first time Vietnamese models performed in the New York Fashion Week. Hoang Thuy and Tuyet Lan impressed the audience by their confidence.

The Vietnamese community is the third largest foreign group in the Czech Republic, according to a new survey.

Syrian security forces carried out their heaviest pounding of Homs in a two-week offensive against the central protest city, an opposition activist on the ground said.

A Vietnamese writer was among eight ASEAN artists granted the Southeast Asian Writers Award 2011 on Thursday.

HCM City's Department of Transport proposed drastic measures to deal with its traffic problems.

The Vietnam Red Cross Association donated USD30,000 to the Philippines on Thursday in the aftermath of tropical typhoon Washi.

A workshop to promote cooperation between Ho Chi Minh City and Osaka city of Japan in managing solid waste took place in Ho Chi Minh City.

Western schoolchildren are up to three years behind those in China's Shanghai and success in Asian education is not just the product of pushy "tiger" parents, an Australian report said.