Vietnamese AO victimsVietnam and the United States aim to start cleaning up contamination from Agent Orange at a former wartime US base in the middle of next year, the US embassy said Thursday.

The cabinet would do its best to stabilise the macro-economy and contain inflation, the last cabinet meeting of the year heard yesterday.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on December 30 announced the top ten cultural, sports and tourism events of the year, selected by journalists.

VietNamNet Bridge – A 5.2 Richter Scale earthquake was recorded by the Institute for Geophysics at 2am of December 31.

VietNamNet Bridge – K+, a new TV broadcaster, is the first to exploit the newly-emerging idol Uyen Linh in a special talkshow tonight, December 31.

VietNamNet Bridge – VietNamNet would like to introduce the most impressive education events that happened in 2010.

VietNamNet Bridge - The foreign-invested sector saw a 40 per cent jump in export and import values by late December, 2010.

VietNamNet Bridge – Five Vietnamese commercial banks have been setting their presence in foreign countries, especially neighbouring markets.

VietNamNet Bridge – Transport enterprises in HCM City yesterday, Dec 30, complained that the Ministry of Transport's new regulation that requires each of them to have their own parking lot was highly impractical.

VietNamNet Bridge – A pilot rural development programme implemented in tandem by the central and city governments has improved the socio-economic conditions in HCM City's outlying districts.

VietNamNet Bridge – Only cars will be permitted to use the main lanes of the Thang Long Highway from January 8, due to safety reasons.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's urban development may have been fast during the past 15 years, but it is far from sustainable, according to the latest Construction Ministry report.

Two former oil tycoons, Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, have been sentenced to 14 and 13.5 years in prison, a Moscow judge announced Thursday.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) of New York City's new fare hike for subways, buses and commuter rails went into effect on Thursday.

South Korea Thursday confirmed an additional case of foot-and-mouth disease, despite extensive quarantine efforts to contain the spread of the highly contagious disease.

A food crisis is emerging in Australia's flood-stricken areas of Queensland, the Australian Associated Press (AAP) reported on Thursday.

An explosion occurred Thursday in downtown Oslo but there were no reports of injury, the Norwegian news agency reported.

A car bomb rocked the Administrative Court of Athens in Panormos area at around 08:21 a.m. local time (0621 GMT) on Thursday, but no injuries have been reported so far

Beijing opened five new suburban subway and light rail lines Thursday as it moves to tackle the city's chronic traffic congestion problem through the development of its rapid mass transit network.

Grandmaster Nguyen Thi Thanh An crowned the title in women’s division at the Southeast Asian Individual Chess Championship that wrapped up Thursday in Singapore.