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Building more hospitals and training sufficient personnel are basic and long-term solutions to deal with current overloads at hospitals, said Minister of Health Nguyen Quoc Trieu.

Australian police have arrested 34 people and seized 6,000 cannabis plants in the biggest series of drug raids in the history of Victoria state.

Total global pepper exports in this financial year would be 237,650 tonnes according to the latest estimates of the International Pepper Community

Cambodia began the grim task of identifying almost 350 people crushed to death in a bridge stampede.

Vietnam’s seafood products have been exported to more than 160 countries worldwide, making Vietnam one of the world’s ten leading seafood exporters.

Construction of a rescue centre has been underway in the central coastal Province of Quang Ngai’s Ly Son island district.

The Minister of Industry and Trade addressed questions about water discharging of hydropower plants and bauxite projects.

A lively performance by German jazz ensemble Tharichen's Tentett in Hanoi this Friday will kick off this year's European Music Festival.

North Korea's claims to have a working uranium enrichment plant - a possible second route to a nuclear bomb - sparked anger in Washington, Seoul and Tokyo.

Deputy PM Nguyen Thien Nhan agreed to allow the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to register the Ba Be National Park in the Ramsar List.

A cold front moved in northern Vietnam causing scattered rain in some northeastern provinces on Monday morning.

San Jose police are investigating multiple reports of fraud committed against members of the city's Vietnamese community, the San Jose police said.

Two of China's leading Internet firms have been forced by the government to issue public apologies over a nasty spat marked.

NA deputies have started questioning the PM and four other ministers regarding controversial and pressing issues.

Representatives of children in 10 provinces and cities have sent out their messages at a dialogue with policy-makers and officials working in child-related areas.

The UAE embassy in Vietnam has started the execution of a project for building ten houses for the poor and needy in Hanoi.

HCM City has achieved great success in combating HIV/AIDS in the two decades since it reported the country's first case, but more efforts are needed, a health official said.

Investments of overseas Vietnamese in the national real estate market are prevailing over other sectors.

A Moscow-bound passenger jet made an emergency landing back in New York on Sunday after developing an engine problem shortly after takeoff, aviation officials said.