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Two South Korean stars will come to Vietnam to advertise their newly released TV series entitled My Princess and also raise funds for Vietnamese needy children.

The HCM City administration is determined to stop flooding at 10 of 31 spots in the city by the end of the year.

A large number of people in northern Vietnam, mostly babies and the elderly, were hospitalised due to icy cold.

Ho Chi Minh City continue to lead the country in industrial production in 2011 with a value of nearly VND740 trillion (USD35.17 billion).

Vietnamese soldiers are forces sent by the Buddha to help liberate Cambodia from the Khmer Rouge, said Cambodian PM Hun Sen.

Mau Son Mountain Peak in the northern province of Lang Son was covered in ice at 03:00am as a result of the recent freezing weather, stiff winds and drizzling rain.

The Ministry of Transport and its agencies will take responsibility for all vehicle fires from 2012.

The European Union and the United States tightened the sanctions noose around Iran, with saying a agreement had been reached on an EU embargo of Iranian oil.

International Grandmaster Le Quang Liem of Vietnam has been invited to join the 2012 Olympics Torch Relay in Manchester, England in June.

Da Lat native Nguyen Duy Hai is undergoing surgery on the 90 kilo tumor on his right leg at France-Vietnam Hospital today, and American doctor McKay McKinnon is the main surgeon.

At least 16 people were killed and another 100 were missing in the southern Philippines on Thursday after a landslide struck a community of gold prospectors, officials said.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung and cabinet members reviewed the implementation of Governmental working regulations in 2011 and discussed this year’s working programme in Hanoi on Jan. 4.

The only sailor surviving from Vietnam’s sunken Vinalines Queen cargo vessel has returned to Hanoi.

From hundreds of millions of dong to hundreds of billions, brownish-black houses with sophisticated carving details are becoming more popular.

The 2nd Street Book Festival themed “Tradition-Present-Future” celebrating the Tet holiday season will open in Ho Chi Minh City from January 20 to 26, 2012.

Antelope, elephants, leopards and lions are grazing and reproducing again in a reserve in Malawi, resurrected through a repopulation project of biblical proportions.

With treatment of medical waste being highly capital-intensive, only around 70 percent of it is treated in hospitals around the country.

Mitt Romney won the first battle in the 2012 White House race in dramatic fashion, wresting Iowa from devout Christian conservative Rick Santorum.

Education experts have asked the Education and Training Ministry to create conditions for universities to have more autonomy in recruitment and enrolment quotas.