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PM Nguyen Tan Dung delivered a speech after the National Assembly approved his cabinet nominations.

Vietnam’s Navy will have a submarine brigade in five to six years, confirmed Minister of National Defense Phung Quang Thanh on August 3.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung was elected as Vice Chairman of the National Defence and Security Council, with 97.2 percent of votes.

Trying to make up for lost time, President Barack Obama plunged back into his re-election campaign Wednesday.

The Korean Cultural Centre in Vietnam will launch a singing contest named “K-POP” in the country.

Patients with mental illnesses are set to receive better care in accordance with a new 2011-20 Government scheme valued at nearly $400 million.

Vietnam and China concluded a working-level negotiation on marine issues, reaching a consensus to solve East Sea issues through peaceful measures.

The US, the United Nations and the International Olympic Committee have been targets of a global cyber spying campaign, security firm McAfee said.

China warned Wednesday that tortured efforts to raise the US limit on borrowing had failed to defuse Washington's "debt bomb".

Many students and parents in HCM City are being conned by swindlers who claim they can get them admission to any university without taking exams.

The harsh drought ravaging the Horn of Africa is likely to worsen and could trigger famine in more regions of Somalia, aid groups warned.

There is room for a lot more co-operation among tourist regions in Vietnam despite the efforts by local authorities in recent years.

Egypt's ex-president Hosni Mubarak goes on trial Wednesday on murder and corruption charges that could see him hanged.

High grade tourism services have been thought as the services reserved only for VIP foreign travellers, but this perception has changed.

Showers continue to pour down many localities, posing a risk of flash floods and landslide in the central region.

The National Assembly approved PM Nguyen Tan Dung’s nominations for new cabinet, which was inaugurated on Wednesday.

Vietnam should immediately look for ways to avoid becoming an industrial garbage dump, a senior official said on Monday.

Google is a latecomer to social networking but its new site, Google+, is growing much more rapidly than Facebook, Myspace and Twitter, experts said.

A meeting to mark the 35th anniversary of Vietnam-Thailand diplomatic ties was held in Ho Chi Minh City on August 2.