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The project received investment from the Viet Nam Air Traffic Management Corporation and was implemented by Corporation 36 under the Ministry of National Defence and the Airport Engineering Consultancy and Services Joint Stock Company will supervise the construction progress.

His funeral was held today. Xuan Tam dedicated his life to poetry, especially the Tho Moi movement, which began in the early 20th century by young intellectuals influenced by Western literature introduced to Viet Nam by the French.

Sultan of Brunei Haji Hassanal Bolkiah has decided to free nine Vietnamese fishermen , who have been detained for fishing in Brunei's territorial waters since January 20.

The Asia-Pacific Group will support Vietnam in preventing monetary laundering and combating the financing of terrorism, the Banking Inspectorate and Supervision Department of the State Bank of Vietnam said on Tuesday.

Drops of rain can be heard falling from the roof. While most people are still curled up in warm blankets, three youths rush to the Saturday market.

Monsanto isn't a household name in Vietnam. But one of it's former products, the killer Vietnam War-era military defoliant Agent Orange, remains infamous.

Only weeks after it scaled-back production in Australian due to a flat market for glass caused by slow beer sales, glass packaging giant Owens-Illinois has opened a new production plant in Vietnam.

A farmer carries home rice on a paddy field in Ngai Cau village, outside Hanoi. Vietnamese farmers should be allowed to extend their land leases in order to prevent violent eviction battles like the one that riveted the nation last month, analysts say.

Of the figure, 1.95 million came from newly licensed Japanese shoe maker O'Shoe, while the remaining came from three existing projects licensed to raise investment capital.

Police in the southern Vietnamese province of Dong Nai are investigating the death of a five-year-old boy while in the care of an illegal private day care center, Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper reported.

Nine people allegedly belonging to a subversive organization in the central province of Phu Yen have been arrested on charges of attempting to overthrow the government, the local police said at a press conference Monday.

Eight sailors have been rescued, according to the Viet Nam Broadcasting System. It was reported that the 994DWT Dai Duong 125, carrying 900 tonnes of coal, crashed into the Ap Bac 3 travelling in the opposite direction on its way from Quang Ninh to Nghe An.

The chairman of the independent US federal agency Export-Import Bank has pushed for infrastructure deals worth $1.5bn . Vietnam's economy grew by 5.8% in 2011, but challenges remain as it battles one of the highest inflation rates in Asia.

The 5th Da Nang International Fireworks Competition 2012 will take place in the central city on April 29 and 30.

Vietnam AirlinesA has slashed prices on flights to Europe and Northeast Asia by as much as 46 percent from now until March 31 , Thoi bao kinh te Saigon quoted the national carrier as saying Saturday.

The Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang has become the third province in Vietnam to report bird fluA outbreak this year, the Department of Animal Health reported Sunday.

The International Atomic Energy Agency and the OPEC Fund for International Development have agreed to assist Vietnam in cancer control through the IAEA's Programme of Action for Cancer Therapy .

The Foreign Ministry delivered a letter to the AP's Hanoi bureau Monday remembering a "kind and caring gentleman and friend" whose "professionalism and tenacity impressed us very much." He reported on the Vietnam War for 10 years from the former U.S.-backed Saigon and refused to leave when it fell to the northern communists on April 30, 1975.

In this Jan. 1, 1966 file photo, AP special correspondent George Esper poses with a Vietnamese boy in Quang Ngai Province, south of Da Nang.

Dung Quat Bio-Ethanol Plant, located in the Dung Quat Industrial Zone in the central province of Quang Ngai, turned out its first batch of bio-ethanol E100 last week after 33 months of construction and trial operations.