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A former senior transport official appeared in the Criminal Court yesterday on charges of taking a bribe of US$262,000 from a Japanese contractor.

A new flood hit the central province of Ha Tinh following a week-long battle with the aftermath of another flood.

All forces, including the navy, the border guard, maritime police, search and rescue forces and civil boats, have been mobilised in the search for the missing boat and its crew.

The end of the world as we know it cannot be avoided, but it can be predicted, according to a group of astrophysicists.

In response to growing global demand for clean energy, General Electric officially inaugurated its first manufacturing facility in Hai Phong.

The Ministry of Transport’s Registration Department will launch the nation’s first vehicle emission testing centre later this month.

The Ministry of Information and Communications has granted five licences to test the Long Term Evolution technology but so far, only two firms have implemented the testing program.

Vietnam’s first International Film Festival will take place in Hanoi from October 17 to 21, 2010 and will showcase the best in Vietnamese and global cinema.

Countries in the lower Mekong River region should delay any decisions about building hydropower dams for 10 years, an influential new study said Friday.

Unusual and severe weather of the transitional season have made old people and children in northern and southern Vietnam ill.

The aviation market in the first nine months saw a year-on-year increase of more than 20 percent in the number of passengers, estimated the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam.

Ha Tinh province on October 15 evacuated 1,000 families in Huong Son district to safe areas.

With public debt accounting for 51.7 percent of GDP, each Vietnamese citizen bears nearly $600 of public debt, according to The Economist magazine’s global debt clock.

Two International Grand Masters Le Quang Liem and Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son will compete in the Cap D’Agde Rapid Chess tournament in France from October 23-31.

Two new routes from the Russian cities of Khabarovsk and Vladivostok to Cam Ranh international airport in the central city of Nha Trang will be launched this winter.

The Asian Development Bank sees cooperation between Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia as vital to their economic future.

Vietnam Motor Show 2010 in Hanoi, the industry’s largest exhibition in the country, will feature key automakers from October 29 to November 2.

Many suspension bridges, which have been seriously degraded, are threatening lives in Khanh Hoa.

Carbon pollution and over-use of Earth's natural resources have become so critical that we will need a second planet to meet our needs by 2030, the WWF said.