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A 7.2-magnitude earthquake in northwestern Mexico rocked buildings as far away as southern California.

More than 40 former Russian experts who worked in Vietnam during the wartime gathered on the outskirts of Moscow for the celebration of their first coming to Vietnam 45 years ago.

A New Zealand architecture firm has won an international competition to help design a massive university in Vietnam.

Three suicide car bombs targeting the Iranian and Egyptian embassies rocked Baghdad Sunday, killing 30 people in a surge of violence.

The Vietnam-Germany University will be built on an area of 50 ha in the southern province of Binh Duong with the investment capital of US $180 million.

The report on the strategy for Hanoi’s development master plan seems to place authorities in a complicated situation.

Apple's hotly-anticipated iPads are finally in consumers' hands in what the maker of iPods and iPhones heralds as a personal computing revolution.

The Hanoi city government passed a US$2.8 million project to repaint offices and residential houses on 75 main streets

Deputy PM Nguyen Thien Nhan approved a proposal from the central province of Khanh Hoa not to host the Miss World 2010 pageant there as originally planned.

More than 10,000 workers walked off the job to protest low salaries and lousy meals at a Taiwanese shoe company in Dong Nai Province.

Can Tho City People’s Committee on April 3 kicked off the second phase of the urban upgrading project which is partially funded by the World Bank.

Many relics and other popular sites in the southern province of Kien Giang have been taken over by trespassers and squatters despite authorities efforts to protect them.

The inspection of software piracy in Vietnam will be tightened at small and medium enterprises this year, said an official.

A container scanning system worth US$9.6 million was put into operation at the Cat Lai port on April 2, the fist scanner to be used by Vietnam’s Customs Department.

The first group of rescuers and divers entered a flooded Chinese mine where 153 workers have been trapped for almost a week.

The Government has approved the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affair's project to officially classify social work as a profession.

Vietnamese cuisine lovers and French-speaking chefs from around the globe gathered in Paris for a four-day food festival dubbed “Cooks’ village in Paris”.

Vietnam has gained several important achievements in implementing its Millennium Development Goals, said an official.

PMs were unanimous that the two countries should deepen their bilateral cooperation in key fields.