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The Vietnam Football Federation will review the sale of television rights for the national top-flight V-League football.

Vietnam fuelled the surge in Asian beer production, with an increase of more than 24 per cent in beer manufacturing over 2009.

A conference was held in the central province of Quang Ngai on August 12 to promote disseminating information on Vietnam’s islands and seas in 2010.

The UN has appealed for 460 million dollars in urgent aid to cope with Pakistan's devastating floods.

The construction of an 83 km long dyke in Thanh Hoa Province cannot be completed due to financial shortage.

What standards do people use when they refer to office towers in Vietnam as A, B, or C-class buildings? There are still no such standards in Vietnam.

Steven Gerrard helped Fabio Capello avoid another chastening experience as the England captain's double strike secured a 2-1 win over Hungary.

Russia announced Wednesday it had deployed a missile battery in Georgia's pro-Moscow rebel region of Abkhazia.

The struggle for justice will continue, though the US Supreme Court decided not to consider Vietnamese Agent Orange victims’ petition.

The Ho Chi Minh City authorities have called for a crackdown on businesses that exceed noise levels and disturb residents.

The “Style 2010” show at Ho Chi Minh City’s White Place Centre was the first opera-fashion show in Vietnam.

Vietnam won the championship title with 14 gold, five silver and three bronze medals at the third Southeast Asian Pencak Silat tournament.

The State Bank has started loosening its monetary policy through pumping capital into commercial banks to muscle-up export and rural area credits.

VNPT and the Ministry of Health on August 11 launched a “for community health” information portal at www.vho.vn.

Sri Lanka's president Tuesday sacked a maverick minister who had tied a state official to a tree as punishment, an official said.

Around 120 seasonal berry pickers from Vietnam staged two demonstrations against their working conditions in Sweden on Tuesday, officials said.

More than 140 young people in HCMC and Ha Noi have applied to take part in an international conference on tiger conservation.

A workshop organized in Hanoi recently to set the standards to choose Vietnam’s national flower.

Vietnam is having discussions on negotiations with the US about a civil nuclear cooperation agreement, the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry’s spokeperson said.