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Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a plan to build eight nuclear power plants in five central provinces over the next few decades.

Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni asserted Cambodia’s commitments to further promoting its friendship and long-term cooperation with Vietnam.

England and the United States qualified for the last 16 of the World Cup, but the US won the group with a last-gasp 1-0 victory over Algeria.

Approximately 4,500 photos have been sent to the 5th tourism photo contest entitled ‘Vietnam - My Homeland’.

Residents in a number of buildings in HCM City were in a state of pandemonium Wednesday as they felt the vibrations from aftershocks.

Life Resort Da Nang chef rewarded with a $20,000 scholarship to study at the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu in Sydney, Australia.

The Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam signed a grant for grassroots construction of primary schools in two communes in Hai Phong City.

President Barack Obama was to meet at the White House Wednesday with his commander in the Afghanistan war.

VINACONEX has proposed building a build-operate-transfer skytrain route to ease traffic congestion in the west of the capital.

A breached well has been pouring oil into the Gulf of Mexico for two months now.

A conference titled Trade Barriers with Business Association and Vietnamese Enterprises was held by the European Chamber of Commerce in Hanoi.

A hair design contest entitled “A thousand year of hairstyles” featuring Hanoi’s hairstyles from 1010 to 2010, launched June 1 and will run through August 10.

The country's macro-indicators continued to improve in May, with the monthly trade deficit narrowing to US$750 million.

The government of Vietnam considers anti-corruption a key long-term task which will require a great deal of concerted effort, said an official.

Cambodia’s former King Norodom Sihanouk, his wife Norodom Moninieth Sihanouk, and King Norodom Sihamoni arrived in Hanoi on June 22.

Da Nang was the site of the 114th post-war repatriation of U.S. remains in Vietnam.

Festivals in Japan and the Republic of Korea this week will promote tourism in Vietnam, ahead of Hanoi 's millennium celebrations later this year.

Rescuers have found the wreckage of a crashed plane carrying an Australian mining tycoon and other executives, with ten bodies found so far.

Motor vehicles must have their exhausts inspected regularly, starting next year.