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Four officials from the Natural Resources and Environment Office in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong are being prosecuted for "irresponsibility causing serious consequences"....

Floodwaters have crept lower in the shellshocked Balkans to reveal widespread devastation after the region's deadliest natural disaster since records began more than a century ago....

Thailand's military summoned the deposed cabinet and ruling-party leaders to report on Friday to a new junta that seized power a day earlier in a coup which has triggered US-led international censure....

The first Artistic Kite Festival will be held in the Tieng Song Ecological Tourism Centre in Can Gio District in HCM City on May 24 and 25....

Viet Nam's women's and men's teams won bronze medals at the rapid event in the ongoing 2014 Asian Nations Cup (Open and Women's Chess Team Championships) in Tabriz, Iran yesterday....

Viet Nam backed co-operation in the field of oil and gas between US businesses and their Vietnamese partners, President Truong Tan Sang has declared....

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has said that Viet Nam would resolutely defend its sovereignty and legitimate interests because territorial sovereignty, including over its maritime zones and islands, is sacred....

China's action in placing an oil rig in Viet Nam's teritorial waters threatened economic growth in East Asia and the ASEAN region, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said yesterday at a World Economc Forum (WEF) meeting in Manila....

Minister of Transport Dinh La Thang has approved the valuation of the flag carrier Viet Nam Airlines (VNA) at VND57.156 trillion (US$2.78 billion), based on its book value....

IDG ASEAN and Viet Nam Association of Certified Public Accountants (VACPA) on Wednesday launched Viet Nam Outstanding Corporate Awards (VOCA) 2014....

Cell phones and accessories topped the country's overall export from January to April this year, earning US$8.08 billion, a year-on-year increase of 36 per cent, according to the General Department of Customs....

People who sell or gift their vehicles must inform the concerned authorities who issue registration certificates....

Military Bank's after-tax profits increased slightly 1.4 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter of this year, reaching VND636.3 billion, or US$30.3 million....

Thai Army chief Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha announced that military forces were seizing power from a caretaker government in order to restore order in a country that has been besieged by political chaos since late last year....

America's corn belt could face yield declines of more than 25% by mid-century as climate change takes hold, report warns The collapse underway of a large part of the Antarctica ice sheet could devastate global food supply, drowning vast areas of crop lands across the Middle East and Asia, according to new research. The report, Advancing Global Food Supply in the Face of a Changing Climate, urges the...

Crackdown follows protests over China's deployment of deep-sea oil rig in waters claimed by both Beijing and Hanoi Hundreds of people have been arrested in a government crackdown after deadly riots targeting Chinese people in Vietnam, senior Vietnamese officials said on Thursday, warning that anyone found in breach of the law would face tough punishment. "The Vietnamese government has  contained...

Book lovers can view many recently released books in various fields and queue up for authors' autographs at a summer book fair opens from today in Ha Noi....

Britain and the Netherlands go to the polls on Thursday, starting the ball rolling on elections to the European parliament that are expected to see a swing towards populist right-wing parties....

There will never be another day like it. Poignantly, what they said about D-Day at the time also applies to next month's 70th anniversary of the pivotal 24 hours of World War II....

As many as 260 professional and amateur golfers will compete in the FLC Golf Invitational Tournament 2014-Golf4Good at the Van Tri Golf Course in Ha Noi on May 24....