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Air France signed a code share agreement with Vietnam Airlines that will allow clients to fly directly from Paris to Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City.

Can Tho City court sentenced a former engineer of Can Tho Bridge construction project to 5 years in prison for bribery.

It was more than a century ago that French colonialists began building a railway from Hai Phong in Vietnam to Kunming, in Southwest China's Yunnan province.

The 2010 Hung Kings Temple festival will be held across the country in the most spectacular way so far.

A large facility housing wild animals was searched by Hue authorities on April 1.

The customs sector detected and seized goods in 2,877 cases of trade fraud, smuggling and illegal goods transport totalling around 38.5 billion VND in the first quarter of 2010.

Russian investigators have identified one of the female suicide bombers who carried out the Moscow metro bombings as the 17-year-old widow of a Caucasus militant.

The capital city will not carry out a planned project to create a time capsule for the upcoming Thang Long-Hanoi millennial celebrations

Hanoi authorities proposed making adjustments in plans for the Tuan Chau Ha Tay eco-tourism complex project in accordance with city's regulations.

The Ministry of Construction has asked its provincial departments to put into action projects to build accommodation for students, using funds sourced from Government bond.

US media outlets are gushing like star-struck lovers over the Apple iPad in early reviews as software makers hustle to ready programs for its much-anticipated sales launch.

A three-way road transport agreement between Vietnam , Laos and Cambodia will be signed in June, said a Vietnamese transport official.

The draft decree on administrative punishment for traffic violations which set fine levels five times higher than current levels to curb traffic accidents.

Hanoi is targeting a GDP growth rate of over 10% this year and hopes to curb the CPI growth.

Thailand's "Red Shirt" supporters of ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra defied mounting pressure from the battered tourism industry to end protests seeking to topple the government.

Among Vietnamese news websites, Dan Tri is leading with the most percentage of Internet users visited, according to a new report.

The Government has approved a five-year training project on sustainable management, protection and development of coastal areas and islands nationwide.

The poverty standard in HCM City during the period of 2009-2015 is expected to equal to the one set by World Bank.

A car blew up in Russia's restive North Caucasus Thursday with the country on high alert after an Islamist group claimed the Moscow metro bombings and warned of more strikes.