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State President Nguyen Minh Triet has asked the court sector to continue to improve the quality of justice in 2011 and the following years, emphasising that court verdicts indicate the Party and State’s prestige.

A small village in Quang Binh Province is coping with serious health problems due to a contaminated water supply.

Vietnam’s first ever general election on Jan. 6, 1946 to elect the NA is a resplendent milestone in the nation’s history.

Vietnam led other foreign investors in the Laos capital city of Vientiane during the 2006-2010 period with more than 1.5 billion USD in 162 projects.

North Korea offered "unconditional" talks with the South, in its most conciliatory remarks since the nuclear-armed state sent tensions on the peninsula soaring by shelling a South Korean island.

Hanoi is feeling bone-chilling temperatures, forcing the many to struggle through the winter nights.

The schooling of young generation of goalkeepers in Vietnam has become shrunken, especially the in the last ten years.

The NA put human rights on the front burner, determined to draft new laws protecting human rights.

VietnamNet, a popular online newspaper in Vietnam, admitted that it had been hacked once again on January 4.

The PM has announced that all state officials in Vietnam will enjoy eight days off during the Lunar New Year holiday.

Children and the elderly have been hospitalized in the past days in Hanoi as temperatures in the north are dropping to 3-4 degrees Celsius.

Nicknamed the “Island Governor”, Dao Hong Tuyen, Chairman of Tuan Chau Group’s Board of Directors, has claimed his assets are worth about $2billion U.S. dollars.

The new national land price frame for 2011 will remain largely unchanged from last year, especially in urban areas such as Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

37-year-old Nguyen Van Duong from Ha Tinh has to live on a wheelchair after working for a Korean fishing vessel

A Ho Chi Minh City man who returned to an ATM booth to wipe fingerprints he had left while stealing a camera there earlier was apprehended by security officials and handed over to the police.

In the period between 2006 and 2010, Vietnam pumped over USD700 million into a programme to boost socioeconomic development in underprivileged communities.

ROCKHAMPTON, Australia (Reuters) – Australia's record floods are causing catastrophic damage to infrastructure in the state of Queensland and have forced 75 percent of its coal mines, which fuel Asia's steel mills, to grind to a halt, Queensland's premier said on Wednesday.

MANILA (AFP) – A murdered Philippine politician caught his killer on camera just moments before he was shot dead, with the photograph leading to the arrest of the suspected gunman, police said Tuesday.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has written an article about major contents of the draft socio-economic development strategy for 2011-2020 period as well as top priorities for 2011. The following is the full article.