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Vietnam has urged the European Union to end the imposition of anti-dumping duties on leather-capped shoes and bicycles imported from the country.

The massive death of fish and shrimps occuring in Ngan Truoi River over the past few days has come as a shock to many people.

The streets of Hanoi lately resemble being put into a BBQ pit as prolonged heat waves show no sign of easing.

A flower festival will take place at the Princess’ Place in the Thang Long Citadel to mark the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long–Hanoi.

PVI and Binh Son Oil Refining and Petrochemical Co Ltd signed a US$3 billion insurance contract for the Dung Quat Oil Refinery.

US President Barack Obama urged the world's leading economies to avoid scaling back government spending too quickly or risk derailing the global recovery.

Vietnamese food is a lot like its people — lively, light-hearted, and lovely, wrote Mia Stainsby of the Vancouver Sun.

Japan and France have committed a total of 134 million USD in ODA loans for Vietnam to cope with climage change.

Norway will continue to make Vietnam a priority in its ODA provision and strengthen cooperation with Vietnam in dealing with climate change.

Minister of Transport Ho Nghia Dung touched on important details surrounding the North-South Express railway project.

Kyrgyzstan's interim president said Friday that the death toll from the ethnic clashes that have rocked the country's south could be near 2,000.

Road users and traffic police complain that some rules introduced almost a month ago to make streets safer have proved impossible to enforce or obey.

Many tourists contacted DTiNews claiming they were approached many times in Hanoi by suspected "scam artists".

The Pakistani-American arrested over last month's botched car bombing in New York's Times Square has been formally charged.

Vietnam's export turnover of footwear in the first five months of this year went up 8.6 percent year-on-year to 1.8 billion U.S. dollars.

A private war museum in Quang Binh Province was the second stop on Canadian writer Susan M Smith's trans-Vietnam tour.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung asked a Russian agency responsible for nuclear supervision to help Vietnam build a system of regulatory documents on nuclear safety.

Vietnam meets adequate conditions for hosting the 8th World Congress of the World Federation of UNESCO Clubs, Centers and Associations in 2011.

BP boss Tony Hayward on Wednesday faced his first public grilling by US lawmakers who lashed him over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.