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President Barack Obama will order his promised US troop drawdown from Afghanistan in a prime time address Wednesday.

Hanoi-based YNG Shin Food Co Ltd has withdrawn 12 fruit juices containing plasticizer DEHP, the Department of Food Safety and Hygiene said.

Many workers in industrial zones and export processing zones have been forced to work overtime to confront soaring prices on everyday necessities.

In the first weeks of this month, hundreds of websites with the domain name of "vn" have been the subject of cyber attacks throughout Vietnam.

Vietravel and APEX Vietnam Co., LTD have said chartered flights will take hundreds of Japanese tourists to HCM City since March.

Vietnam will export 50,000 tonnes of rice to Sierra Leone following a memorandum of understanding signed in Hanoi on June 21.

The US space agency said that it is sending a team of scientists on the second and final mission of a NASA field study on Arctic ice.

Over 14,200 flood-hit households in central Vietnam have benefited from a six-month project funded by two international organisations.

Vietnam has won the champion title at the 12th ASEAN Youth Chess Championship held in Indonesia.

Figures released by industry tracker comScore credited Google with being the first online operation to attract over a billion visitors in a month.

Vietnamese urban experts, together with local and foreign partners, have launched a contest to redesign Thong Nhat Park.

The babyhood of Vietnam children seems to becoming shorter because they have to begin learning at the year of four or five instead of six.

A school in Hanoi is crowded with pupils on Saturday mornings, all eagerly awaiting a mobile library carrying books and educational games.

The air in most Asian cities is getting more polluted and the rivers filthier, but experts believe in a green vision for the region.

JICA will provide aid to Vietnamese state agencies in their effort to develop small and medium-sized enterprises.

Nguyen The Thao has been re-elected as Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee for the 2011-16 term.

Energy groups have expressed their concerns regarding excessive loan interest rates and capital shortages, a recent seminar heard.  

Radioactive tritium has leaked from three-quarters of U.S. commercial nuclear power sites, an Associated Press investigation shows.

Senator John McCain called for U.S. support to Southeast Asian nations to stand up against China in the increasingly volatile South China Sea.