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Leather and footwear exports rose 13.8 percent in the first seven months to 2.75 billion USD, according to the Vietnam Leather and Footwear Association.

Russia Thursday banned grain exports for the next four-and-a-half months due to a record drought that has destroyed millions of hectares of its land.

Nguyen Tien Minh has won a place in the quarter-finals of the Chinese Taipei Grand Prix Gold Open yesterday.

Celebrating and preparing for the future of crafts is an economic necessity for many villagers Vietnam.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism has invited tourism agencies, hoteliers and travel firms to join a marketing program in Germany, Belgium and France.

After the Vietnamese Foreign Affairs Ministry asked Google to correct errors on Google Maps this March, part of the border between Vietnam and China has been corrected.  

Domestic and foreign investors are being called for medicine production paving the way for Vietnam’s drug production sector development

Vietnam has initiated 63 projects in Cambodia, with a total investment of US$900 million, making Vietnam Cambodia’s third largest investor.

Supermodel Naomi Campbell told a court how she received a pouch of rough diamonds came from Liberia's ex-president Charles Taylor, in the dock for war crimes.

Official figures in South Korea show there were 7,249 marriages between South Koreans and Vietnamese women last year.

Vietnam demands that China cease activities that violate Vietnam’s sovereignty and its sovereign rights in the East Sea.

"In Citi's 15 years of doing business in the country, Vietnam has become one of the most promising markets," said Citi CEO Vikram Pandit.

Investigations into Vinashin's former chairman will be thoroughly pursued, the Standing Deputy Prime Minister said.

The second Vietnam-Africa International Forum will take place in Hanoi from August 17-19, 2010.

Local authorities have decided to charge people to take water which many believe can cure diseases.

An exhibition focusing on Vietnam’s National Assembly and the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) opened at the Ho Chi Minh Museum in Hanoi on Aug. 4.

Tra Que village is famous for growing organic vegetables and their products are popular in Hoi An and Da Nang.

The U.S. will support Vietnam in initiatives put forth to strengthen industrial relations within the country.

South Korea launched its largest-ever anti-submarine exercise near the disputed sea border with North Korea, despite Pyongyang's threats of retaliation.