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Vietnam’s kitesurfing team, the KINN team will compete at Pranburi, Thailand for round four of the Kiteboard Tour Asia championships.

Nokia said Friday it was slashing jobs and joining forces with US giant Microsoft in a major strategy shake-up that left investors disappointed.

Thirty-two percent of European businesses in Vietnam predict that the country’s inflation rate may reach 6-8 percent in mid-2011.

China's government has ordered a renewed crackdown on child abductions after an online effort to reunite parents with their lost children.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung has launched a project to recruit 600 young talented intellectuals to lead 600 communes in poor rural districts nationwide.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's Twitter and LiveJournal accounts have been named the best blogs of the Russian-language internet in 2011.

Vietnam plans to stockpile 1 million tonnes of rice to help sustain the market for farmers amid low prices.

Lampard believes England's future will be brighter after many of Fabio Capello's new selections made a big impact in friendly victory over Denmark.

Ho Chi Minh City spent more than VND300 billion (15 million USD) on this year's Tet, caring for the poor families.

A museum in London is throwing caution to the wind for an exhibition on sex in the animal kingdom complete with copulating chimps and randy rabbits.

Vietnam neither joined nor sent observers to the 2011 Cobra Gold military exercise in Thailand, a spokesman for the Defence Ministry has affirmed.

Vietnam devalued the beleaguered dong by 8.5 percent on Friday in a widely anticipated move to realign official and black market exchange rates amid high inflation and a persistent trade deficit.

Central Highland Dak Lak Province's famed tame elephants may become extinct in the next 20-25 years unless conservation project receive goverment funding, experts said.

Although profit targets await approval from shareholders at general meetings in coming months, most lenders target a higher profit in 2011.

Vietnam aims to send 87,000 workers abroad in 2011, around 1,500 more than last year, says a local official.

Obama stressed the need for a meaningful and lasting political transition in Egypt in a telephone call with key ally King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.

Three Vietnamese sailors seized by Somali pirates on May 6, 2010 have been released and are on their way to the Mauritius Port.

A 52-year-old patient in Soc Son District, Hanoi has died of A/H1N1 influenza after being taken to Bach Mai Hospital in the state of respiratory failure.

Elections of NA deputies and representatives to the people’s council at all levels offer people an opportunity to exercise constitutional rights.