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Vietnam has banned its banks from handling Bitcoins, saying the virtual currency is not legal tender in the communist nation.

• 28 февраля 2014, 14:32

The Vietnamese developer behind the smash-hit free game Flappy Bird has pulled his creation from online stores after announcing that its runaway success had ruined his "simple life".

• 10 февраля 2014, 16:17

Four decades after the Vietnam war ended, US fast-food giant McDonald's opened its first restaurant in the communist country Saturday, aiming to lure a rising middle class away from rice and noodles.

• 08 февраля 2014, 12:50

Vietnam has recorded its first death from bird flu in nine months, according to the country's Health Ministry, amid growing regional concerns over a potential resurgence of the deadly virus.

• 21 января 2014, 15:30

Kazakhstan will cooperate with Vietnam in oil and gas.

• 16 января 2014, 11:23

Vietnamese police said Friday they had launched an investigation into a riot at a multi-billion dollar Samsung factory that left 13 people injured, four critically.

• 10 января 2014, 17:49

Seven Vietnamese schoolchildren drowned while swimming in the sea during a picnic near the southern business hub of Ho Chi Minh City, local police said Monday.

• 30 декабря 2013, 12:23

A new Kazakhstan Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Vietnam has been appointed.

• 23 декабря 2013, 13:12

Former top executives at Vietnam's scandal-hit national shipping company Vinalines went on trial Thursday for embezzlement and defying state regulations.

• 12 декабря 2013, 14:28

After two delays, private US company SpaceX on Tuesday successfully launched its first commercial satellite, after repairs were made to the Falcon 9 rocket.

• 04 декабря 2013, 18:01

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has decreed to open Kazakhstan embassies in the Republic of South Africa and Vietnam.

• 13 ноября 2013, 12:44

Survivors of a super typhoon that may have killed more than 10,000 people in the Philippines were growing increasingly desperate for aid Monday, as authorities struggled to cope with potentially the country's worst recorded natural disaster.

• 11 ноября 2013, 17:34

Vietnam is evacuating tens of thousands of people in the path of Typhoon Nari, state media said Monday, after the powerful storm left 13 dead in the Philippines.

• 15 октября 2013, 17:45

Vietnam's top leaders gathered early Saturday to pay their last respects to independence hero General Vo Nguyen Giap, who died last week at 102, as his state funeral began in Hanoi.

• 13 октября 2013, 21:25

At least seven people died early Saturday in an explosion at a fireworks factory within a military complex.

• 13 октября 2013, 19:44

The larva of a Vietnamese moth has devised a unique form of transport -- constructing a leaf cone and thrashing about inside to make it jump.

• 21 августа 2013, 15:38

Kazakhstan's landscaper robots developed for the Asia-Pacific Robot Contest ABU Robocon 2013 in Vietnam have been presented.

• 29 июля 2013, 17:48

US President Barack Obama on Thursday called on Vietnam's leader to improve on human rights but the former enemy nations pledged to work together on trade and tensions with China.

• 26 июля 2013, 14:59

Vietnam's president on Wednesday starts a rare visit to Washington to boost trade and security ties between the former war foes, but activists urged the United States to press him on human rights.

• 25 июля 2013, 12:01

Kazakhstan athlete has won the most beautiful volleyball player title at the VTV-Eximbank Cup 2013.

• 24 июля 2013, 10:31