Dioxin contamination at Da Nang Airport would be remediated by 2015, co-chair of the Joint Advisory Committee on Agent Orange Le Ke Son said at yesterday's press conference as the committee concluded its sixth meeting.

Viet Nam's trade deficit in the first nine months of the year reaches US$6.84 billion, equal to 9.7 per cent of the total export turnover, the General Statistics Office (GSO) has reported.

VietNamNet Bridge - On September 24, a century-old tree unexpectedly uprooted and fell on a group of foreign tourists who were waiting for their turn to get on the chutes at the Datanla Waterfall tourist site in Da Lat city, Lam Dong province.

An airplane of Nepal's Buddha Air crashed at Kotdanda of Lalitpur Sunday morning, leaving all the 19 passengers on board dead, local police said.

The Ministry of Home Affairs will propose an increase in the minimum wage for public servants and members of the armed forces to help ensure they can meet basic living needs.

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What will the Government do in order to awake the 500 tons of gold worth more than 20 billion dollars, now lying among people, and turn the gold into a national resource?

Vietnam’s first nuclear power may be unable to start running in 2020 as scheduled, said Dr. Tran Dai Phuc, a senior Vietnamese French nuclear expert who is teaching Vietnam’s key nuclear engineers.

A decommissioned U.S. science satellite fell back to Earth but its precise re-entry time and location remained unknown, the U.S. space agency NASA said Saturday.

A series of gunfire and bomb attacks, including four successive blasts in Iraq's holy Shi'ite city of Karbala, killed a total of 17 people and wounding dozens in a new escalation of violence in the country

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As a tropical depression in the East Sea is upgrading into a storm, central and southern Vietnam is suffering from more floods and heavy rain, the Hydro-meteorological Forecasting Center said.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan received delegates to the third Vietnam-China People’s Forum in Hanoi on Sunday, in the presence of the Chinese Ambassador to Vietnam Kong Xuanyou.

Oc Om Boc, the annual Water Festival of the Khmer people, will this year coincide with the Vietnam Rice Festival in Soc Trang Province, home to a large community of the ethnic minority group.

“Farmers now have no more tra fish to sell. They have given up farming. Seafood processing companies will face a serious material shortage in the time to come,” warned Deputy Chair of the An Giang Provincial Seafood Association (AFA), Le Chi Binh.

Prudential staff charged for fleeing with $14mil; 18 fishermen return from Philippine captivity; 18 fishermen return from Philippine captivity

VietNamNet Bridge – Many roads in HCM City are named after well-known men to commemorate these people, but the names are written wrongly.

After a ten-year hiatus, the world's largest music festival, Rock in Rio, returned to its hometown Rio de Janeiro for seven days of concerts from Friday, attracting 700,000 people over the whole week.

If you are visiting Dong Thap Province in the flooding season, tourists, even locals in the Mekong Delta will feel excited with the familiar and strange feeling of nature in the alluvium wetland.

Sixteen-year-old Vietnamese tennis player Nguyen Hoang Thien made it through to the boys U-18, group 2 semi-final at the China Junior 15 – Xiamen 2011 Tennis Championship on Thursday.

Thach Kim Tuan easily won gold medal in his favourite 56kg category of the National Weightlifting Championships yesterday.

Legal experts of ASEAN countries discussed the Initiative for a Zone of Peace, Freedom, Friendship and Cooperation in the East Sea at a meeting in the Filipino capital city of Manila from September 22-24.

Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh has affirmed Vietnam’s consistent policy of supporting and promoting general and complete disarmament, with top priority given to nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation.

The foreign businessmen’s expansion in collecting coffee directly from farmers is a big threat to domestic coffee companies.

Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) said Friday it would announce a "crisis" government in the next few days while its troops are reported to have entered the eastern gate of Sirte,