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Residents inconvenienced in new resettlement areas

Hundreds of households in the new resettlement areas built by hydropower plant investors in Quang Nam Province face great difficulties.

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UNESCO recognises Buddhist woodblocks

A collection of woodblocks printed with Buddhist Sutras was officially listed as world heritage by UNESCO on May 16.

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Vocational training in a mess

Vietnam has 1,700 vocational training schools which annually provide more than 1.6 million workers but the market is still running short of skilled labourers.

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Bio-fuel use to be compulsory by 2015

Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai ordered the Ministry of Industry and Trade to make the schedule to use bio-fuel compulsorily by next year.

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Development program sets this way, training goes the other way

Vietnam is seriously lacking manpower in some professions, while it has many redundant workers in other fields.

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Lam Dong decided to sacrifice Da Lat special-use forest for stone mine

Lam Dong authorities decided to chop down 247 pine trees of the Dalat special-use forest to give place for mineral exploitation.

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MTV Exit returns to Vietnam to fight human trafficking

MTV Exit is organising a free concert to promote human rights with the participation of famous artists like Simple Plan, Brown Eyed Girls and My Tam.

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A Frenchman who lost his limbs braved currents to swim from Papua New Guinea to Indonesia, in the first stretch of a mission to swim between five continents.

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It's been hundreds of years since the Tasmanian devil last lived on the Australian mainland but a pioneering group is being bred for survival.

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France's new government, gets down to work Thursday with the first order of business on their agenda being a pay cut for themselves.

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Syrian forces were accused of executing 15 civilians, as members of a UN team of observers were evacuated the day after a bomb blast hit their convoy.

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Nearly half of transgender people in the Asia-Pacific region could have HIV, a UN report said Thursday.

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One in three adults suffers from high blood pressure, a key cause of strokes and heart disease, according to World Health Organisation figures released.

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