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Five children, aged between 6 and 9, drowned yesterday afternoon when they were swimming in the Hieu River in the central Quang Tri Province's Cua Viet Town....

The first Game Fishing Association Championships will be organised from May 17 to 18 at the Trang An Fishing Club in Ha Noi....

Reports of 20 or more killed as Beijing's expansionism in South China Sea provoke continued violent backlash in Vietnam Violent reaction in Vietnam to China's expansionist stance in disputed seas has turned deadly with reports that 20 or more people have been killed during rioting that began with attacks on foreign-owned factories. A top Taiwanese diplomat said rioters had stormed a large Taiwanese...

Vietnamese anger over China's expansionism in disputed seas spills over in attacks on foreign-owned factories Violent reaction in Vietnam to China's expansionist stance in disputed seas has turned deadly, with multiple reports of people being killed during rioting that began with attacks on foreign-owned factories. Cambodia said hundreds of Chinese nationals had poured across the border from Vietnam...

Police in Ha Noi's Ung Hoa District remanded a 27-year-old driver yesterday for causing a traffic accident that killed a woman and her two children....

The remains of 32 Vietnamese volunteers and experts who lost their lives in Laos during wartime were laid to rest with a ceremony yesterday....

The captain and three other crew members of the ferry that sank off South Korea last month were indicted on Thursday on charges of manslaughter through gross negligence, Yonhap news agency reported....

Thousands of people have fled raging wildfires in roasting southern California as flames destroyed homes and triggered evacuations at a nuclear power plant, a military base and an amusement park....

A television documentary series on the life of Vietnamese revolutionaries in Con Dao Prison will be filmed this month by Viet Nam Television (VTV) and Viet Nam Film Studio....

Noted composer To Vu passed away on Tuesday in his home in HCM City's District 9. He was 91....

Grenade blasts and gunfire rocked an anti-government protest site in Thailand's capital on Thursday, leaving two dead and 24 wounded as fears of wider political violence mounted in the crisis-hit kingdom....

The recruitment of 500 of the nation's best and brightest to work as civil servants in rural and mountainous communes, will promote development, transparency and equality, said head of the Ministry of Home Affairs' Youth Affairs Department, Vu Dang Minh....

Voices of condemnation and concern over China's illegal East Sea actions as well as support for Viet Nam's position continued to be raised within and outside the country yesterday....

The ninth meeting of the Party Central Committee (11th tenure) wrapped up yesterday in Ha Noi with an agreement to issue a new resolution on developing Vietnamese culture....

State media in Vietnam says up to 20,000 people involved in attacking factories, not all of which were Chinese-owned Anti-China mobs have torched up to 15 foreign-owned factories and trashed many more in southern Vietnam, according to officials and state media, amid rising anger over China's recent instalment of an oil rig in a disputed part of the South China Sea. Separately the Philippines has protested...

Vietnamese athletes won a silver medal at the Borovets Aerobics World Cup which ended in Bulgaria on Sunday....

The National All-Star Teams Table Tennis Championships will be organised in Khanh Hoa Province next week....

Coach Guillaume Graechen has called another 11 players for the national U19 team who will leave for a training course in Japan next month....

Teammates Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son and Vo Thanh Ninh shared the top place after three rounds in the first day of the National Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in HCM City....

Viet Nam's women's football coach Chen Yun Fa said his team are well-prepared for the Asian Cup – which is also a World Cup qualifier – and ready to play a "beautiful game" against Jordan today at Thong Nhat Stadium in HCM City....