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A 23- hectare biotechnology center, cost US$100 million, started work on May 25 in the Trung My Tay Ward of District 12.

The northern border province of Lang Son should focus on building a border gate economic zone, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

Vietnam's National Assembly is ready to share experience in law drafting and supervision with Palestine's legislative body, NA chairman Nguyen Phu Trong said.

Once a year, with his wife's blessing, Lau Minh Pao gets to have a guilt-free tryst with his ex.

Photographers' images, some of them chillingly beautiful, can only begin to hint at the enormity of the disaster.

The programme aims to turn Vietnam into one of the countries with the most progressive achievements in gender equality.

EU and ASEAN foreign ministers started talks on integration mechanisms and increasing cooperation in the economy, politics and security.

Floods from the upper Da and Hong rivers have broken many dykes and embankments in Hanoi.

Vietnamese customs inspectors have discovered more than a ton of elephant tusks hidden in a shipping container full of snail shells from Africa, an official said.

Rather than using a firing squad, execution will now be carried out by use of lethal injection, the National Assembly decided.

An oil slick from a tanker damaged in a collision off eastern Singapore has been contained, officials said Wednesday.

Mothers from across the country with children under the age of 16 will be provided with childcare knowledge and advice.

Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee admitted to a lack of efficiency in recent renovation plans in the city.

The World Bank will give a 688 million USD loan for the implementation of five projects in poverty reduction, health, energy and environmental sanitation in Vietnam.

Tthe Vietnamese government has invited a storied United States Naval Hospital ship, the Mercy, to come visit Binh Dinh Province.

Motorcyclists make the most of a despised safety regulation, choosing colorful, questionably streamlined ones to adorn their heads.

It is essential to combine current poverty production programmes into one overall programme to avoid any overlaps, said an UN official.

Vietnam is willing to share its experiences regarding national construction and defence, President Nguyen Minh Triet has said.

Vietnam suggested developing human resources and improving protection for workers as well as promoting cooperation within ASEAN.