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China aims to "basically eradicate poverty" by 2020 while greatly raise its poverty line, in order to help more people in need, Premier Wen Jiabao said.

Twenty-one provinces and cities will carry out pilot program on agricultural insurance for the first time in the 2011-2013 period.

American investors in Vietnam will have more financing options when joining local partners.

Japan's PM Naoto Kan is now "on the edge of a cliff" after his foreign minister quit over a funding scandal, newspapers said.

The closing ceremony for the 2011 Vietnam Professional Windsurfers Association Grand Slam was held in Binh Thuan.

All Vietnamese workers in Libya, which number 10,334, had by March left the riot-stricken country, said a labour official.

The unbridled manufacture and use of pesticides in Asia is raising the spectre of "pest storms" devastating the region's rice farms, scientists have warned.

A hospital-medicine and pharmacy university will operate officially in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai at the end of the second quarter.

Revelry took over Rio's streets as the Carnival kicked into high gear, while extra police ensured the safety of those participating in the event

Thirty-one lecturers from the Vietnam University of Fine Arts are displaying their best works at an exhibition entitled ‘Beginning a New-year Writing’ in Hanoi.

Aliens exist, and we have proof. That astonishingly awesome claim comes from Dr. Richard B. Hoover, an astrobiologist at NASA.

A new programme seeks to use tech-savvy children as intermediaries to help poorly educated farmers in the Mekong Delta draw on Japanese agricultural expertise.

Moamer Kadhafi's forces were accused of a massacre during an assault on a key city Saturday, as rebels pushed towards Tripoli.

The market of presents for Women’s Day (March 8) features womanliness and focuses on flowers, teddy bears and cards.

The Food and Agriculture Organisation will offer 2.7 million USD to help Vietnam develop its capacity in forest and tree resources assessment.

Are the long nights and financial burdens of parenting really worth the emotional benefits? New research is saying no.

Representatives from the three countries gathered to discuss a draft co-operation agreement on the management and operation of their joint website.

Prescription for a long life: Work hard. Don't retire early.

The Electricity of Vietnam Group warned that the increasing demand from the industrial production and construction sectors would lead to power supply shortages.