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Two weeks after hackers took over newswire VietNamNet, they succeeded again Monday morning.

State President Nguyen Minh Triet expressed commitment to relations with Italy , Britain and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

The Central Committee of Floods and Storm Prevention and Control sent an urgent dispatch to central provinces, asking them to be ready for more heavy flooding.

World powers held their first meeting in 14 months with Iran over its disputed nuclear programme on Monday.

A project that focuses on policies and measures to attract Vietnamese experts and intellectuals living abroad will be completed in 2011.

Hanoi’s People’s Committee and the General Department of Population and Family Planning held a joint ceremony to launch the 2010 National Action Month on Population.

WikiLeaks has divulged a secret list compiled by Washington of key infrastructure sites around the world that could pose a critical danger to US security.

The European Union lent Vietnam 150 million euros on Monday to help build a metro line in the traffic-choked southern business capital of HCM City.

The US Department of Commerce has announced that it will continue to levy anti-dumping taxes on frozen warm-water shrimps imported from Vietnam.

Vietnam's first coffee museum will open soon in the central- highland city of Buon Ma Thuot.

One of Hanoi's most legendary parks has undergone a massive upgrade but needle use remains rampant.

The WB and the ADB will provide nearly USD230 million for the central province of Nghe An.

In recent years, a great deal of farm businesses have been set up in the Mekong Delta, most of them are engaged in aquaculture, horticulture and husbandry.

As many as 200 people may have been buried in a landslide Sunday that swept over 10 houses near Medellin, Colombia's second largest city, Red Cross relief workers said.

Vietnam and Spain launched an information campaign aimed at fighting the trafficking of women and children.

Philippines pulled off one of the biggest shocks in the history of the AFF Suzuki Cup with a 2-0 win over defending champions Vietnam.

Building new rural areas in Dien Bien Province is of great significance as a national project, said Deputy Prime Minister Truong Vinh Trong.

A cold front is moving towards northern Vietnam and would begin affecting the area on Monday.

World climate talks in Cancun entered their final stretch beset by fears of a repeat of the failures that nearly wrecked the December 2009 Copenhagen summit.