Iraq’s fugitive Sunni vice-president Tareq al-Hashemi was sentenced on Sunday to death by hanging on charges he masterminded death squads against rivals in a terror trial that has fuelled sectarian tensions...
President Truong Tan Sang has left for Astana to begin an official visit to Kazakhstan following his participation at the APEC Summit in Russia. The 2-day visit aims to...
(VOVworld)- Enthusiasm, openness, and sincerity are the common features of the group Link Vn. 11 official members and 35 collaborators are young and most of them are students in Hanoi....
(VOV) - The 2012 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit opened in Vladivostok, Russia, on Friday under the theme ‘Addressing challenges, expanding possibilities’. This is an important conference within the framework...
Among the letters and emails we received during the week, we’d like to begin with Rattan Kumar Paul, a teacher and co-coordinator of the South Asia Cri DXer...
Foreign and Trade Ministers met in Vladivostok on Tuesday in Russia’s Far East, ahead of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit on Saturday
(VOVworld) – The 1945 August Revolution and Independence Day on September 2 are of great significance to Vietnam, said Vietnamese ambassador to France Duong Chi Dung at a ceremony yesterday to...
(VOVworld)- The new academic year began at kindergartens, schools, colleges and universities throughout the country today, welcoming more than 21 million pupils and students
(VOVworld) – The Prime Minister has reiterated the Government’s priority policy for education to reduce poverty and boost industrialization. Nguyen Tan Dung stated this at a ceremony to begin the...
A: Starting off this week’s Letter Box edition, I’d like to say Hello to Adeel Butt of Pakistan, who was in Hanoi and visited our office some weeks ago. We...
(VOVworld) – Australian Defense Minister Stephen Smith will begin a visit to Vietnam Wednesday, the second since Smith took office
(VOVworld) – Beginning next month, Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi will replace Kofi Annan as special U.N. and Arab League envoy to Syria. He has pledged to prioritize the Syrian people’s interests and spare no effort...
(VOVworld) - In August, 1945, Thai Binh was one of the first earliest provinces to seize power. The soldiers and people of all ages and social strata united as one to support the revolution...
France has suffered a fresh outbreak of urban unrest, with three police officers wounded in an attack by a crowd firing shotguns and lobbing petrol bombs. The unrest began after a police...
The security forces of Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan began a series of joint counter-terrorism drills in the southern Russia on Thursday. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said that...
(VOVworld) - 60 representatives from Vietnamese young people’s organizations have arrived in the Laos province of Bolikhamxay to begin a week-long exchange program with Khammoune, Salavan and Savannakhet provinces
The US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, arrived in Baghdad Tuesday, the highest-ranking US official to visit Iraq since the US withdrawal began 8...
This week, we’d like to begin with a frequent listener to the English program, Fumito Hokamura of Japan. In every letter, Fumito poses many questions about Vietnam that he...
Bouthaina Shaaban, the Syrian President’s special envoy, told reporters on Monday that a proposal by Western countries to set up a no-fly zone over Syria would be considered an act of...
(VOVworld) – Trade officials of China, Japan, and South Korea met on Monday in Qing Dao, China, to continue negotiations on a 3-way Free Trade Agreement. Recent diplomatic tensions over disputed...