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The Doha round of trade talks would be an important step in building and developing a freer and fairer world trade system, according to PM Dung.

Saigontourist Travel Service Company welcomed the five-star cruiser liner SuperStar Virgo with 3,188 passengers and crew on board.

G-20 finance ministers and central bank governors applauded contributions by Vietnam, in its capacity as ASEAN representative.

The European Union will give 940 million euros (about $1 billion) in aid to Vietnam this year.

The spectre of hooliganism and crowd trouble stalked the World Cup countdown as a group of hardcore fans were deported.

A high-level Vietnamese delegation left Hanoi for the third Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia slated for June 7 and 8 in Turkey.

Food poisoning has affected 704 persons, including ten fatalities in the country in last month, released by Vietnam Ministry of Health on June 6.

Members of the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force and the United States Navy have come together to provide medical care to the people of Vietnam.

BP says the cost of the company's response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has reached about $1.25 billion.

Vietnamese President called on his people to protect the country’s seas and islands at the 2010 Vietnam Sea and Island Festival.

The carcass of a critically endangered Javan rhino had been found in Indonesia, bringing the the world’s scarcest mammal one step closer to extinction.

Corruption is an act of stealing from the poor, experts said at a World Economic Forum session focusing on East Asia held yesterday in HCM City.

With the reduction of interest to holidays in Thailand, Vietnam seems to have managed to attract to their sights those who are accustomed to rest in South-East Asia.

Many Vietnamese legislators said Saturday they were concerned that new taxes proposed for several products will place more burdens on poor people.

South Africa is to throw a ring of steel around Johannesburg's sparkling new Soccer City stadium.

The 2010 World Economic Forum on East Asia is a chance for Vietnam to draw a lesson for its development through presentations by international experts and scholars.

More than 20 Vietnamese children are killed in accidents every day and many of them suffer serious disabilities or permanent psychological wounds.

East Asia's global responsibilities needs to be recognized adequately, said PM Dung at the World Economic Forum.

Al Maumausolo surveys what is left of the windswept, hilltop battlefield he has not seen in 42 years and says: "The body's somewhere around here."