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The space shuttle Endeavour glided home for its final landing early Wednesday.

In the last few days several ships, probably Chinese, harassed a Vietnamese vessel undertaking seismic exploration in Vietnamese waters.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter is set to be re-elected as head of world football in Zurich Wednesday.

Teachers and students of HCM City’s primary schools have collected more than 450,000 milk cans to call for environment protection.

Hanoi will be included in the world's largest timed filmmaking competition, 48 Hour Film Project.

Some export giant tiger prawn processors are working at half capacity because of a shortage of raw crustaceans and consequent high prices.

More foreign tourists have chosen Vietnam as their destination in recent months.

In the past two weeks, Vietnamese fishermen have reported a rash of violent Chinese intrusions into Vietnamese waters.

An international seminar on the East Sea was held in Jakarta on May 31.

US film giant Warner Bros has revealed the two long-delayed upcoming "The Hobbit" movies, prequels to the Tolkien epic "Lord of the Rings".

Japanese auto giant Toyota said its domestic production would return to about 90 percent of pre-quake levels in June.

Vietnamese bakers made “My village” with bamboo, coconut trees and houses on stilts as their submission at the world banking competition.

A collection of highly venomous king cobras were found on Friday in 100-pound bags under the seats of a passenger train in Vietnam.

Nearly 2 million students will take university and college entrance exams from July 4-16, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

Libya accused NATO of killing 718 civilians and wounding 4,067 in 10 weeks of air strikes, as African efforts for a truce stalled.

The retail sales value of goods and services increased by only 0.68 percent to VND156 trillion (USD7.4 billion) during May.

Former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic was placed in custody in The Hague Tuesday to await trial for genocide and war crimes.

Most visitors who go to Phan Thiet City’s Thuy Tu Temple forget there is also a lot of life in the nearby bamboo boat making craft village.

Agencies have increased efforts to raise public awareness about the negative impact of smoking, but to little avail.