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US President Barack Obama said Sunday the Hurricane Irene recovery effort could go on for days or weeks, but hailed the disaster response operation as an "exemplary" display of good government.

Vietnamese hospitality always involves enormous amounts of food, which almost always involve an enormous amount of meat, writes Tabitha Carvan.

Tropical Storm Irene unleashed furious wind and rain on New York, but the city appeared to escape the worst fears of urban disaster.

Vietnam’s circus has won many accolades in international competitions, where circus artists had an opportunity to prove their prowess by taking up international challenges.

The Border Guard Force of the central coastal city of Da Nang on Aug. 27 handed over a Filipino fisherman to the Philippine Embassy in Vietnam.

Hurricane Irene tore into New York, hammering Manhattan's skyscrapers with fierce winds and threatening to flood the financial district after killing at least nine people along the US east coast.

A fire broke out in Keangnam Hanoi Landmark Tower, the tallest building in Vietnam, at 2:00 pm on August 27.

The HCM City Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs says it will continue to implement many policies on providing welfare and healthcare for senior citizens.

China's Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has ratified the Third Protocol Amending the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia.

Hurricane Irene killed at least eight people along the US east coast, cut power supplies to nearly a million and churned toward a direct hit on an anxious New York city.

Vietnam’s 1A National Highway has been nominated as the world’s best cycling route by ‘Lonely Planet’, a travel guidebook.

The first buses in Vietnam using energy-efficient fuel made their debut on August 26 in HCM City.

FDI projects in Vietnam have disbursed a total of $7.3 billion in the first eight months of 2011, said the Foreign Investment Department.

Hurricane Irene zeroed in on land, losing some power but still whipping up trouble. More than 2 million people were told to move to safer places.

Fabregas was on target two minutes from time after coming on as a substitute just eight minutes earlier.

The court of Palawan province of the Philippines released 85 Vietnamese fishermen, said the Vietnamese Embassy in the country.

Vietnam’s agro-forestry-fishery export turnover reached USD16.4 billion in the first eight months of this year, a year-on-year rise of 34.2 percent.

Hurricane Irene closed in on the Atlantic coast on Friday, triggering emergency preparations that included unprecedented evacuations and mass transit shutdowns in New York City.

After being struck by strong winds and rough waves yesterday afternoon, a fishing boat working off Con Dao Island with five fishermen on board was submerged and gradually sank.