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Vietnamese Deputy PM and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Gia Khiem presided over the ASEAN+3 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting.

Ethnic minority people in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong have agreed to work together to fight against climate change.

China has said it plans to invest 738 billion dollars developing clean energy over the next decade.

Vietnam could see rare changes made to its Constitution as amendments are being discussed by the National Assembly.

The PetroVietnam Construction Joint Stock Corporation is planning to build a 528-m tower, the second tallest building in Asia.

Five American professors are going to teach at Vietnamese universities for the 2010/2011 academic year.

The Government issued a new decree, regulating investment and co-operation with foreign partners in the area of science and technology.

Ly Tong, an American of Vietnamese origin, was arrested by Santa Clara police in California for allegedly attacking a Vietnamese singer.

Some children in Phu Yen have no summer holiday, as they have to help their parents and are left with nowhere to play.

It took 3 fire trucks and firefighters had to break into one home to extinguish a vicious blaze which sparked yesterday at 12.40 pm.

ASEAN FMs reached agreement on numerous important issues at the 43rd ASEAN Ministerial Meeting in Hanoi.

The U.N. refugee agency has praised Vietnam for its plan to grant citizenship to 2,357 people who fled Cambodia\'s genocide under Pol Pot over three decades ago.

The general public will be given priority for tickets for the 2012 London Olympics and everything possible will be done to fill stadiums, the chief organiser said.

About 450 tonnes of garbage is littered across the roads of Ha Tinh City, causing major pollution problems.

The 43rd ASEAN Ministerial Meeting (AMM-43) opened in Hanoi on July 20 in the presence of Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

A stroke of good luck brought a paralysed and poverty-stricken man 1 billion Vietnam dong ($51,398).

Vietnam wants to expand cooperation with organizations on drug prevention and fight to help combat narcotics smuggling and use, stated Deputy PM Truong Vinh Trong.

Vietnamese Consul-General to Hong Kong and Macau visited 10 Vietnamese fishermen who were victims of a ship sinking by typhoon Conson.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai sought to convince an international conference in Kabul that his government could assume full leadership by 2014.