Hanoi - Vietnam's stock market had a rare good day Monday after preliminary figures released by the government showed inflation slowing and the trade deficit shrinking in June.

Hanoi  - Vietnam has told local rice exporters to boost exports, reversing its decision in March to stop signing new contracts and to cap rice exports this year at 3.5 million tons, officials said

Phnom Penh - Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni is scheduled to visit Vietnam next week during which he is to lay a wreath at the mausoleum of former Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh, palace officials s

Hanoi - A Vietnamese real estate and forest products magnate said Wednesday he will pledge 14 million dollars to Laos to help the country host the 2009 SEA Games, the biannual Southeast Asian sport

Hanoi  - Vietnamese police staged a mock hostage situation over the weekend to train for the possibility of a terrorist attack on next month's Miss Universe pageant in the seaside resort city of Nh

Hanoi  - At least four Vietnamese men, including a father and son, were killed in a mining accident at a stone quarry in southern Vietnam, an official said Monday.