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The World Trade Organisation is willing to lend Vietnam a helping hand in designing roadmap for each specific phase of its integration into the world economy.

The Vietnamese group of manufacturing and trading reported a total revenue of over VND 8.2 trillion and will unveil a new strategy in 2010.

John Travolta has landed his own jet in Haiti carrying relief supplies and a team including doctors and Scientology ministers.

A suicide car bomber killed at least 18 and injured dozens more in a strike against a police crime lab in central Baghdad.

Anti-corruption police have confiscated nearly VND70 billion ($3.8 million).

Talks will begin soon on a working holiday scheme for young Vietnamese and New Zealanders to travel and work in each other's countries.

International donors agreed on a 10-year rebuilding effort for earthquake-damaged Haiti, one that would create an even better capital city.

The Canadian Education Fair will be held on January 27 and January 30 respectively with the participation of 21 education institutions.

General Vo Nguyen Giap is recovering well after treatment, his assistant said.

Polls have opened in Sri Lanka for the presidential election which comes after a bitter campaign.

Giang A Linh, 36, has been in love with Hang Thi Song, 80, for the past 6 years.

Long-haul markets to Vietnam are in the doldrums and were behind the collapse of total arrivals last year to the country.

He's no Wyclef Jean or George Clooney, but that hasn't stopped seven-year-old Charlie Simpson from raising more than £120,000 ($195,000) for the Haiti earthquake.

Hanoi plans to put into operation five more luxury hotels, offering an additional 2,000 rooms during 2010, the National Tourism Year.

Some time last year, in all probability, the "billionth African" was born, a milestone that will only benefit the poorest continent if it can get its act together and unify its piecemeal markets.

Vietnam is expected to export 750,000 tonnes of rubber this year to reach an export revenue of US$1.5 billion, says the Vietnam Rubber Association.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has told the BBC that a vaccine for malaria could be just three years away.

“We are confident in our internal strength, national unity and the extent of our international cooperation when entering the year 2010, as the country is hosting numerous large and important events,” said State President Nguyen Minh Triet.

The implementation of the campaign of “Studying and following late President Ho Chi Minh’s moral examples” has helped realise Party guidelines and State policies on national development.