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Vietnam’s national football team has remained in the lead of Southeast Asian despite dropping two notches to 101st position in the FIFA January rankings.

A Vietnamese delegation headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Le Luong Minh attended the third preparatory meeting for the second Nuclear Security Summit in New Delhi.

Rare and expensive fragments of a Mars meteorite fell from the sky in July over Morocco, a team of international scientists confirmed.

The Vietnam People's Army will launch its own television channel in 2012 to broadcast nationwide, according to the Ministry of National Defense.

A two-year-old Cambodian boy has died from bird flu, the World Health Organization (WHO) said, in the country's first fatality from the virus this year.

Vietnam ’s top leaders exchanged congratulatory messages with their Chinese counterparts to mark the 62 nd anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the countries.

Three Vietnamese workers aboard the cruise ship Costa Concordia, which sank just off an Italian island, have been confirmed safe by the Vietnamese embassy here.

Wikipedia, Google and hundreds of other websites staged online protests against US legislation targeting Internet piracy of movies and music and the sale of counterfeit goods.

Poor people in the highlands province of Gia Lai are finding odd jobs around cemeteries to earn money for the Tet holiday.

Well-known French electronic artist Alex Millan is set to perform at the French cultural centre l'Espace in Hanoi next month.

The “mineral bleeding” would become even more serious in 2012 if local authorities do not take drastic measures to control the mineral exports.

A 18-year-old man in the southern province of Hau Giang died of type A/H5N1 flu, said a doctor in HCM City.

China's trade surplus shrank in 2011 to $155.14 billion as export growth slowed sharply, reflecting the economic turmoil in Europe and the US.

The HCM City Transport Co-operatives Union has put into operation five buses that run on compressed natural gas.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade will further restrict the import of luxury goods this year in a move to keep the trade deficit at roughly $13 billion.

Rafael Nadal bulldozed past Tommy Haas at the Australian Open as Swiss great Roger Federer reached the 3rd round without even picking up his racquet.

Several streets in HCM City are experiencing serious traffic congestion as travel increases with the approach of Tet.

Vietnam's top player Nguyen Tien Minh has risen to the seventh place in the Badminton World Federation rankings.

The plan to change office and school hours in Hanoi faced doubts from delegates at a meeting held by the city's Transport Department.