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Vietnamese Party General Secretary met with Russian Deputy PM, Moscow Mayor and Chairman of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

People are taking a variety of different approaches to the same question: How best to prepare for the coming apocalypse?

No longer listed among the poor and backward countries as of this year, Vietnam has become a middle-income country.

Health departments nationwide have been asked to spend 30 per cent of their budgets to prevent epidemic outbreaks of cholera and dengue fever.

Poland is to share the US$37,000 cost of preserving a stele engraved with King Tu Duc’s teachings that sits in front of the old national university in Hue City.

HCM City downtown can expect a major facelift along the bank of the Sai Gon River from Sai Gon Bridge to District 4's Tan Thuan Bridge.

The last four years Øyvind Sveen has been drawing his daily two pages of Norwegian football cartoons while living in Vietnam.

BP's efforts to place a new containment cap over the gushing Gulf of Mexico oil well could effectively stop the disastrous spill as early as Monday, a US official said.

A conference to promote investment in Vietnam’s marine-based economy in 2010 was held in Hai Phong with the participation of investors from many countries.

Russia considers developing strategic partnership with Vietnam as a priority in its foreign policy towards Southeast Asia and Asia-Pacific.

Football fever has taken a toll on gamblers in Vietnam, leading to a string of problems.

The breakdown of a 500kv cable system, caused power blackouts in all central provinces from Ha Tinh to Quang Ngai and two Central Highlands provinces.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung promised that he will pave the way for relevant agencies to fight off corruption in the country.

Iran has announced that a woman will not be stoned to death after being convicted of adultery following an international outcry.

A heat wave settled over north and central Vietnam since March was affecting agriculture, power generation and health, officials said Friday.

Police in Khanh Hoa Province apprehended three men who are now in custody as suspects in the killing of 7 endangered langurs.

President Triet promulgated the Adoption Law; the Food Safety Law; the Enforcement of Criminal Verdicts Law and the Commercial Arbitration Law.

The United States and Russia sealed the most sensational spy swap since the height of the Cold War.

More than 150 Vietnamese and American delegates are gathering in Hanoi on July 8-9 to review bilateral ties after the two countries established diplomatic ties 15 years ago.