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The Australian Government will provide an estimated A$119.8 million in development assistance to Vietnam in the July 2010 to June 2011 period.

Gender equality and the promotion of the role of women in society still faced many challenges in a dramatically changing world, Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan said.

The 16th Future Asia Forum opened in Tokyo on May 20 with the participation of Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan.

US spy czar Dennis Blair said he would quit, paying the price for a string of intelligence failures after a 16-month tenure.

The Vietnamese Government expressed deep sympathy over the sinking of Cheonan, a warship of the Republic of Korea.

Top leaders of Vietnam and Finland have agreed to raise two-way trade to 1 billion USD.

A Korean reporter writes about what impressed her during her trip to Vietnam and how everything is far different from what she had expected it to be.

A lone thief broke into a major Paris gallery and made off with a 120-million-dollar haul of modern masterpieces.

If NASA's exploration of Mars were summed up in a bumper sticker, it would read: "Follow the water."

Vietnam's southern province of Dong Nai has installed 76 traffic lights using solar energy.

CNN has recently announced a selection of 28 most relaxing spas in Asia. Among them is the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi, Vietnam.

The Government pointed out weaknesses of some state owned firms and their inefficient usage of capital and assets.

Scientists have been buzzing from the discovery that some rice paddies estimated to be 3000 years old have sprouted.

Beep! Beep! A motorcyclist without a helmet snakes through a crush of oncoming traffic — going the wrong way on a one-way street ...

The Vietnamese Prime Minister has approved a development plan to build and upgrade the 5.800km highway network.

Thai police on Thursday escorted thousands of protesters out of a Buddhist temple where they had cowered overnight after nine people were killed there in gunbattles.

The 7th session of the 12th National Assembly began on May 20 with a focus on socio-economic issues and legislative programmes.

The three central provinces and cities are striving for closer co-operation to jointly attract more Japanese travellers to the region.

Northern provinces have all faced power failures for over a month, some have had to endure alternating power cuts to economize scarce energy supplies.