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At least 123 people were trapped underground Sunday after water gushed into a coal mine in northern China, a government agency said.

Young music talents from high schools in Coventry performed at a charity concert to raise funds for several projects being implemented in Vietnam.

Vietnam has saved 500,000 kWh after switching off lights for one hour on March 27 in response to Earth Hour 2010.

South Korean resumed the hunt for 46 sailors still missing after a warship sank in choppy waters near the border with North Korea following a still-unexplained explosion.

During the recent hot, dry spell, many people have flocked to public swimming pools with their children to escape the heat.

Cuban Minister of Basic Industry Yadira Garcia has spoken highly of the socio-economic achievements Vietnam has made over recent years.

The world's tallest building went dark and lights were shut off at other sites across the globe Saturday.

Lao PM Bouasone Buphavanh has expressed his wish that the two sides will soon reach a cooperation agreement.

Lan Hieu explores the north-west of Vietnam where past and present have collided with nature and energy needs.

The National Geographic Society of the US will revise the naming conventions of the Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago in its maps.

Police have freed 30 Vietnamese nationals who were forced into slave labor at an underground garment factory in the town of Yegoryevsk.

Vietnamese experts will assist Chad enhance its food security by helping to improve irrigation for rice growing and boosting cereal production.

A group of American students traveled to Vietnam and wrote a textbook about the country for students to use in the 7th grade.

Government's strategies have enabled Vietnam to achieve the biggest leapfrog in this year's Global IT Ranking.

There are still limitations on Hanoi’s human resource training, which will result in a critical lack of human resources in industrial zones.

The Fund under the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese will spend more than 17 billion VND on projects supporting beneficiaries this year.

Former premier Iyad Allawi was to begin talks to form a government after his bloc edged out incumbent PM Nuri al-Maliki's coalition in declared results from Iraq's election.

The Can Tho Polyclinic aims to become the first hospital in the Mekong Delta and the third hospital in Vietnam to succeed in in-vitro insemination.

The planet is overheated, under-resourced, and almost out of time, but technical innovation and green economics could still save the day, experts and leaders said.