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Defence Minister, General Phung Quang Thanh, has reiterated Vietnam's policy of protecting national sovereignty by peaceful measures....

The Vietnam Register has proposed that the Ministry of Transport ban turning passenger coaches into sleeper buses....

Lack of land and few opportunities to work in non-farm jobs are pushing many ethnic families deeper into poverty....

The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said on Tuesday it had again suspended a trouble-plagued system used to clean radiation-tainted water....

Thailand's army declared martial law on Tuesday after months of deadly anti-government protests, deploying armed troops in central Bangkok and censoring the media but insisting the move was "not a coup"....

The touristic beach city Nha Trang will host the Vietnamese Gastronomy Festival 2014, which is scheduled to take place from July 1 to 7....

Nearly 1,900 people in the northern province of Yen Bai have been infected with rabies and three have died after being bitten by dogs since the beginning of the year....

Ha Noi T&T have signed a one-and-a-half year contract with Cyrus Daneil, a footballer from Trinidad and Tobago (TT)....

The Ministry of Transport opened the central Da Nang City's southern ring-road project yesterday after nearly two years' work. It is expected to boost development in the region....

The Party Central Committee's Secretariat yesterday held an online conference to celebrate the 124th anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh's birthday....

The National Political Publishing House has published a series of books on President Ho Chi Minh to mark the 124th anniversary of the President's birth (May 19, 1890)....

Pham Thu Ha, winner of the 2013 Devotion Award for Album of the Year, has released a new album blending pop, opera, and classical music....

Order has been restored in southern industrial parks and export processing zones as most businesses in HCM City and neighbouring provinces have resumed operations following riots led by extremists who incited workers to violate security regulations, the vice chairwoman of a provincial labour federation has said....

The Ministry of Transport opened the city's southern ring-road project yesterday after nearly two years' work. It is expected to boost development in the city's southern region....

At talks with his Azerbaijan counterpart Ilham Aliyev in Ha Noi yesterday, President Truong Tan Sang made clear Viet Nam's stance on expanding relations with the Eurasian country as its major partner in southern Caucasus....

China sends rescue flotilla as torching of foreign-owned businesses strains relations between communist neighbours Nearly 1,000 Chinese citizens have fled Vietnam by sea, as Hanoi stifled fresh protests over a territorial dispute and foreign investors counted the cost of last week's riots. The passenger ship Wuzhishan left the central Vietnamese port of Vung Ang with 989 evacuees on board, China's...

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has suffered a voter backlash after a budget described as the worst in 20 years with two polls on Monday showing support for his government plunging....

South Korean President Park Geun-hye took tearful responsibility on Monday for the mishandling of last month's Sewol ferry disaster, admitting many lives were unnecessarily lost and vowing to dismantle the national coastguard....

Thirty-one children were burned to death when a bus they were traveling in caught fire in northern Colombia on Sunday, the Red Cross said....

A fire ravaged a mahout house in the Bao Dai King's private residence area in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak today morning....