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The 22nd Joint Meeting of the UN World Tourism Organization Commissions for East Asia and the Pacific, and South Asia will be held in Hanoi from May 10-12.

The European Union's top transport official rejected Tuesday growing criticism that the EU failed to adequately address the air traffic chaos caused by the volcano eruption in Iceland.

An additional VND21 billion will be provided to promote tourism and the national action programme on tourism this year, raising the total to VND71 billion so far.

In part 11 of the series, Laura Lam writes of Ho Chi Minh\'s vigorous activities in the Soviet Union after he left France.

The Seventh International Ministerial Conference on Animal and Pandemic Influenza – 2010 opens today in Hanoi.

A 29-year-old of US nationality, wanted by US police under an international red alert, has been arrested by Vietnamese police.

The number of travellers in Vietnam will be significantly increased as the two big holidays are approaching.

Five in 16 cases of acute diarrhea reported in northern province of Hai Duong were tested positive for the virulent vibrio cholera virus, a health official said.

Vietnam-Hungary bilateral relations, especially in national defence, will be further promoted after the latest visit to Hungary by a delegation of Vietnam’s defence ministry.

European governments opened the airspace to new flights from Tuesday giving hope to grounded passengers around the world.

Project RENEW operates programmes such as mine-risk education, safe removal and destruction of ordnance, medical assistance, and the provision of artificial limbs.

Airline representatives with indirect air routes to Europe stated that visitors who are stuck in Vietnam as of April 18 may have to wait 5-10 days to return home.

Social activists and US war veterans joined others in a demonstration demanding the Dow Chemical Co to take responsibility for Agent Orange/dioxin victims in Vietnam.

Some 70 members of the staff at the Government Guest House have just completed a ten-day training course under culinary experts from Belgium.

Two-way trade between Vietnam and the US in the first quarter of this year hit a record high compared to the same period of previous years, according to the Customs Department’s statistics.

East Asia could stabilise its greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 while maintaining economic growth by investing heavily in energy efficiency and low-carbon technologies.

The HCM City's Department of Transport has approved a plan by the Thuong Nhat Company to develop waterway boat routes within the city.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung left Mendoza on April 17 to wrap up his official visit to Argentina made at the invitation of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

To save electricity during the current drought conditions in the central region, electric companies in some provinces have cut off power for hours at a time in many localities.