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This year's HCM City Tourism Day 2011 will highlight special aspects of five popular destinations – HCM City, Da Lat, Binh Thuan, Phu Quoc and Hai Phong.

Hanoi is planning to turn the area west of West Lake into a world-class banking and financial centre by 2030.

Libyan forces hammered rebel cities with tank fire as a top British officer said Moamer Kadhafi's air force had been almost obliterated.

Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor, famed for her glamorous but stormy love life as well as her five-decade Oscar-winning film career, died at age 79.

Japan said the cost of rebuilding the country after its biggest recorded earthquake could be as much as USD309 billion.

As the summer and with it, periodical power cuts, are drawing near, businesses throughout HCM City are rushing to buy electricity generators.

Tennis legend Martina Navratilova believes Roger Federer will struggle to regain his world number one ranking.

Most Vietnamese labourers returning from work abroad are finding it difficult to earn a living in their home country.

Hundreds of campers stranded by floods and landslides in Australia were waiting to be rescued after roads were washed out by freakish weather.

The Ministry of Health has decided to destroy over 9.7 million expired capsules of Oseltamivir, better known as Tamiflu, worth VND280 billion.

Travellers could soon be able surf in Bali, shop in Singapore and cruise the Mekong in Vietnam-all on a single tourist visa.

Tokyo warned that radioactive iodine over twice the safe level for infants had been detected in its tap water due to impacts of recent earthquake.

State policies to encourage overseas Vietnamese students to return to the country received a great deal of concern during an online meeting.

Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi defiantly claimed that his country is "ready for battle," while Western leaders Wednesday planned their next steps.

HIV/AIDS has wreaked havoc in the commune of Loc Bon, where most of men have gone to Laos to earn a living.

Many European countries have suspended imports of several kinds of fruit from Vietnam over quality considerations.

A study by the World Bank said Vietnam would need to spend around USD850 million annually adapting to climate change for the next 40 years.

MegaStar Media Ltd. Co. announced it would screen “Rio”, the first U.S. 3D film dubbed in Vietnamese, at theatres across the country on April. 8.

A fast, sleek new version of Firefox was released to vie Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 and Google Chrome in the market for Web browsing software.