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A 15-minute film by Vietnamese director Hoang Tran Minh Duc will be screened to compete at the Cannes Film Festival's Short Film Corner event held from May 14 to 24....

A ceramic mosaic by artists Nguyen Thu Thuy, Nguyen Hoang Tung, Trinh Ba Quat and Do Nhu Diem is inaugurated on Viet Nam's Truong Sa (Spratly) Island last week....

Those who invest in building parking lots may be exempted from land use fees and land lease payments, if the municipal People's Committee's recommendations go into effect....

The Intergovermental Committee of Viet Nam and the Czech Republic would work to create more favourable conditions for bilateral trade, Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai said yesterday....

The Vietnamese Government will help businesses invest in Myanmar, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said while receiving Myanmar Minister of Industry U Maung Myint in Ha Noi yesterday....

The Ia Krel 2 hydropwer plant in Gia Lai has begun storing water without a license, nearly a year after a dam breach flooded a village, destroyed crops and inflicted huge losses....

Two hundred and twenty Vietnamese websites were hacked from May 8 to 11, and the hackers have claimed to be from China....

A local official presents a bouquet to the Most Venerable Thich Nhuan Thanh yesterday as the Buddhist Sangha in Binh Phuoc Province held a ceremony to celebrate Lord Buddha's 2558th birthday at the Quang Minh Pagoda....

Search results for Noi Dao Xa (Far Away from Islands), a song about the love for soldiers living on Truong Sa (Spartlys), totalled 18.5 million hits on Google as of Sunday....

The EU was intensifying diplomatic efforts on Tuesday to get Ukraine's leadership and pro-Moscow militants to the negotiating table, as the OSCE said Moscow supports a de-escalation roadmap for the crisis....

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott worked on Tuesday to sell his government's first budget as one that will be painful but crucial for the nation's future....

Armies of Terminator-like warriors fan out across the battlefield, destroying everything in their path, as swarms of fellow robots rain fire from the skies....

Vietnamese piano student Nguyen Duc Anh, studying in Germany, has taken the silver medal at the Alkan-Zimmerman International Piano Competition in Greece, which took place between May 6-9....

Consumers will have transparent information on how electricity, oil and gas prices are calculated when Ministry of Trade and Industry directive 11/CT-BCT goes into effect, said Minister Vu Huy Hoang on Sunday....

Peaceful protests erupted in major cities across the country over the weekend, with demonstrators shouting slogans demanding China to remove its oil rig from Vietnamese waters....

Overseas Vietnamese in many countries around the world on May 11 took to the streets to protest China's illegal placement of an oil rig in Vietnam 's continental shelf and exclusive economic zone....

Campaigning began on Sunday for Syria's June 3 presidential election expected to return Bashar al-Assad to power, as the regime marked a symbolic victory with the exit of rebels from Homs....

Israel on Sunday joined the international effort to trace more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist militants in Nigeria but Washington said US troops would stay out of any rescue mission....

A woman and her two small children died yesterday afternoon after being hit by a truck on national highway 21B in Ung Hoa District, Ha Noi....

A fire destroyed several hectares of a pine forest in Ha Long City's Hung Thang Ward in coastal Quang Ninh yesterday evening....