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A delegation from the Brazil Foreign Ministry started a 3-day visit to Vietnam, to hold a political consultation and meetings with leaders of some Vietnamese ministries.

Rescuers were given clearance to "immediately" enter a New Zealand coal mine where 29 men are missing a day after a gas explosion, a senior official was reported saying.

The United States is providing $1 million to help authorities in Vietnam locate and identify the remains of Vietnamese soldiers missing in action during the war.

Two Vietnamese students are among a five-member team from La Trobe University, who have won the Australian round of the CFA Global Investment Research Challenge.

The Long Bien Bridge Festival will open this weekend with more events and performers than ever.

Vietnam has a huge amount of potential for the development of the software industry, said an IBM executive.

The Japanese Government will fund US$95,476 to a project on boarding-house construction for disabled children home in the central province of Quang Binh.

Plans to construct 11 industrial and high-tech zones in Hanoi over the next five years were taking shape to attract domestic and foreign investors.

An aggressive herd of elephants is frightening villagers in Vietnam's Central Highlands, but a local official said that requests to remove the elephants were 'not feasible.'

The WHO warned that resistance to malaria drug artemisinin appeared to be spreading in the region from the Cambodia-Thailand border, where it was first detected.

Vietnam will participate in commemorating World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims for the first time.

Sunday will mark the 2010 Run for Children which is an event that raises funds to aid children suffering from poverty and illness.

Vietnam’s younger generation is where the future lies for banks and their credit cards

An Hien is widely considered as one of the largest and most beautiful garden houses in Vietnam's former capital of Hue.

After earlier disagreement, law-makers yesterday decided that whistleblowers should be protected in the new draft Law on Denunciation.

A miniature sloth, the "Asian unicorn" were Friday added to the Zoological Society of London's list of genetically distinct and endangered mammals.

Members of the two clubs, 'Leading the Future' and 'IHanoi', will present a photography exhibition entitled ‘Millennial Essence’ in Hanoi.

The Consulate of Vietnam has officially been inaugurated in Nagoya city, Aichi prefecture.

A Foreign Ministry spokesperson was critical of the US 2010 report on international religion released by the US Department of State on November 18.