Society

The United States and Peru decided to renegotiate a 60-year-old defense cooperation agreement between the two countries as Washington seeks to deepen security ties with Latin America.

More than half of the states in the world now tolerate some form or element of dual citizenship.

New Vietnamese Ambassador to Nigeria Hoang Ngoc Ho on October 2 presented President Truong Tan Sang’s credentials to Nigerian President Goodluck Johnathan.

The most recent trend in Vietnam has been for farmers to abandon their traditional work for higher-paying jobs.

Experts warn that children born in the supposedly auspicious Year of the Dragon will face a demographic crunch later.

Despite the low demand and the low popularity of e-books and the widespread copyright infringement, the big guys in the hi-tech sector all are planning to digitalise textbooks.

Vietnam may need more time to prepare for implementing the emission reducing REDD+ initiative as many stakeholders are still getting to grips with the concept and its importance.

Saigontourist Cable Television's decision to only pay studios if their serials top a certain rating has left the latter bewildered.

Vietnamese Agent Orange victims will receive more support from MBC Television, one of the three major television and radio networks in the Republic of Korea, via a fund-raising programme.

The Turkish military returned fire after a mortar bomb shot from Syria landed in countryside in southern Turkey on Saturday, the state-run Anatolian news agency reported.

Hanoi authorities have ordered localities to deal with super slim houses and land encroachment in early 2013.

Vietnam's foreign reserves have surged from a level of just $9 billion last year to $20 billion at the end of last month, according to Asian Development Bank.

A big-name Hollywood fundraiser for Barack Obama is releasing the first feature film about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden two days before the US presidential election.

As many as 30 US banking firms are expected to be targeted in a wave of cyber attacks as part of "a large-scale orchestrated crimeware campaign," a security researcher says.

Around 1,000 officials from 100 countries, including Vietnam, are attending the 6th International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities Annual Conference in Malaysia.

The 12th session of the 13 th National Assembly’s Standing Committee opened in Hanoi on October 5 under the chair of Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung.

Coca-Cola and Samsung have pulled their advertising from a popular Vietnamese website notorious for providing unlicensed downloads of Western and local songs, in a rare victory against online piracy in a country where it has grown unchecked.

Natural disasters in the first nine months of this year left 229 people dead or missing and 355 others injured, and caused damage totalling 3.2 trillion VND, the General Statistics Office has announced.

Australian scientists are using military technology for locating submarines to track rare blue whales hundreds of kilometres away by eavesdropping on their distinctive songs.