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The Prime Minister recently approved an additional list of 10 ministries in charge of granting and managing certificate of free sales for import and export.

A celebration was held Feb. 23 in Hanoi to mark the 20th birthday of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Hundreds of passengers were left unimpressed with the way Vietnam Airlines handled the cancellation of a flight out of Da Nang Airport.

Tuan Anh explores a place whose name was once synonymous with “Nowhere Land.”

The central province of Thua Thien-Hue has approved a project on the preservation of saola and other indigenous bovines.

A poverty-stricken 97-year-old man in Vietnam won up to 400,000 dollars in a lottery, sparking a frenzy among relatives eager to get a piece of his new-found wealth.

Thousands of Vietnamese fishermen are giving a royal send-off to a 15-ton dead whale.

David Cornish writes about hometowns, and watching them change from afar.

Thousands of young people from Vietnam’s northern border province of Lang Son and a Chinese youth delegation are attending an spring camp in Lang Son province.

The Afghan immigrant at the center of what the authorities described as one of the most serious threats to the United States since 9/11 pleaded guilty Monday to terrorism charges.

The thick fragrance of joss-sticks is always hanging in the air in Doc La village, Hung Yen province, writes Duc Hanh.

The German town of Ludwigfelde hosted an emotional meeting for Vietnamese workers who formerly worked at the well-known IFA automobile manufacturing plant in East Germany 20 years ago.

The Vietnamese government has awarded Enovation Resources exploration block 105-110/4 in the Song Hong basin offshore Vietnam.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy hosted a reception to celebrate the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival of Vietnam and China.

It was perhaps the most famous photograph of the Vietnam War -- it shows a little girl running from a napalm attack. That day in 1972 changed Kim Phuc's life forever.

Fearing potential staff cuts, Lufthansa's high-paid German pilots took to the picket lines on Monday, plunging the airline into its longest ever strike and forcing the carrier to cancel hundreds of flights.

Vietnam lessons the U.S. might have learned at Dien Bien Phu.

This morning, after a long Tet holiday, life has been brought back to the streets of Hanoi.

At least 738 bridges in Vietnam are in a weak condition, not fit to carry their designed loads, according to the Vietnam Road Administration (VRA).