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State President Nguyen Minh Triet received a business delegation from the Council of Saudi Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

A seminar was held in Phu Quoc island district in the southern province of Kien Giang to discuss how to develop tourism in the Mekong Delta region.

The iBoP project promotes scientific and technological initiatives for poverty reduction.

At least 80 people were killed when rebels derailed a train packed with sleeping passengers in eastern India Friday.

A ceremony was held to receive the remains of 149 Vietnamese soldiers who lost their lives while serving in Cambodia.

The number of foreign tourists arriving in Vietnam this May increased by 50.3 percent year on year to 440,000.

A 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck off Vanuatu Friday, seismologists said, sparking a tsunami warning which was later cancelled.

An area of low pressure has formed over the north and northeast of the East Sea, reported the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting.

A Vietnamese man has been charged in federal court with conspiracy to manufacture and possess marijuana with intent to manufacture 1,000 or more marijuana plants.

Work on the casting of a bell in celebration of the 1,000th founding anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi began at Quang An pagoda in Hanoi.

The Government has introduced a master planning scheme to set up 16 marine protected areas by 2015.

The spokeswoman for the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has reiterated that Vietnam has indisputable sovereignty over the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos.

Speeding up the multi-faceted cooperation with Saudi Arabia is one of Vietnam’s priorities in its foreign policy towards the Middle East.

Russian authorities on Thursday vowed to strike back after a bomb blast killed seven people and wounded dozens in the southern city of Stavropol.

HCM City’s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism will organise and encourage a range of events to attract domestic and foreign tourists.

Liz French of the New Zealand Herald travels in Vietnam on one leg after getting hit by a car in Hanoi.

The “Vietnam Week” and a photo exhibition on Vietnam kicked off in Mexico as part of activities to mark 35 years of Vietnam-Mexico diplomatic ties.

A total of 22 countries around the world have to date recognised the market economy in Vietnam, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Cam Tu reported.

Jamaican forces claimed control of a slum in an offensive to capture an alleged drug kingpin, but fears mounted for civilians.