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The Ministry of Information and Trade is working with the EC to remove barriers that face Vietnamese businesses when exporting their products to the EU.

Aviation-tourism cooperation is a vital path for the two sectors’ development, benefiting the country, said General Director of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism.

The Ho Chi Minh City Power Corporation has taken essential measures to ease power shortage in this dry season, the Corp’s head said.

Vietnam has requested that the World Trade Organisation’s Dispute Settlement Body establish a panel on the US anti-dumping measures on certain shrimp from Vietnam.

State President and many other top officials burned incense to commemorate Hung Kings in Phu Tho Province.

Minister of National Defence and General Phung Quang Thanh is on an official friendship visit to China from April 21-28 at the invitation of his Chinese counterpart Liang Guang Lie.

USA and Japan are considered to be huge potential markets for Vietnamese fruits although they are currently only dragon fruit clients.

German health experts are willing to cooperate and assist with projects in Vietnam, to promote the synergy between medical and economic development, affirmed Health Minister Philipp Roesler.

Thailand was on edge Friday following a series of grenade attacks in the heart of Bangkok which left three people dead and dozens wounded.

Illegal sand mining is going on everyday in Thanh Hoa, but local authorities seem to have little control over the situation.

Cisco and the People’s Committee of Da Nang collaborate to achieve sustainable urban growth through technology and innovation.

More than 48% of Vietnam’s rural population still lacked access to basic sanitation at the end of 2008.

On Monday, PBS's "American Experience" will air a program about one of the dark moments in U.S. history — the massacre at My Lai.

The third 10+3 Media Cooperation Forum, hosted by the People’s Daily of China, kicked off in the Chinese city of Tianjin on April 21.

Almost half the number of Vietnam Airlines passengers stranded at airports have boarded new flights.

Ministries and agencies have proposed the adjustment and elimination of hundreds of redundant administrative procedures.

The folks who print America's money have designed a high-tech makeover of the $100 bill.

Allowing hospitals to open pharmacies within their premises in cooperation with pharmaceutical companies has enabled both sides to collude and sell drugs at higher prices, health officials said.

The Vietnam Ministry of Finance has recently issued an import tax rate guide for certain commodities such as petrol, kerosene and diesel oil.