Society

YouTube was searching for education "gurus" with knowledge to impart to fast-growing ranks of students turning to online videos for lessons.

Vietnamese telecoms companies are no longer reliant on foreign partners, resulting in the withdrawal of foreign-invested companies from the domestic telecoms market, said an official in a report published by Vietnam Investment Review.

Samsung Electronics Co plans to add Apple Inc's iPhone 5 to existing patent lawsuits against its U.S. rival.

A lot of Vietnamese people, especially officer workers, have been putting flowerpots in their rooms or at the offices which they believe can help dispose of toxic gas.

Many local junior colleges and universities are going against education regulations by recruiting students for training programs at unauthorized places outside their own campuses.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung attended the opening ceremony of the ninth ASEAN-China Expo on September 21.

iPhone 5, the latest handset of Apple, arrived in Vietnam with prices ranging from VND22 million to about VND28 million.

RoK has announced that it will temporarily stop recruiting new Vietnamese guest workers in 2012.

Vietnam’s car imports have dropped to a record low in 43 months.

Vietnamese player Nguyen Tien Minh has failed in the quarterfinals of the 2012 Yonex Open Japan badminton tournament.

The Arctic sea ice just hit its lowest extent since measurements began in the 1970s, raising the question of when Arctic summer sea ice will disappear for good.

Vietnam will meet Myanmar in the final of the ASEAN Football Federation Women’s Football Championships following a thumping 7-0 semi-final victory over Laos.

The Vietnam-US Dialogue Group has announced the goal of basically solved the consequences of Agent Orange/dioxin in Vietnam by 2020 at the seventh meeting of the Vietnam-US Joint Advisory Council (JAC) in Hanoi on September 20.

HCM City’s HIV/AIDS prevention and control system is facing high risk of bankruptcy.

The last of the 33,000 US soldiers that Barack Obama sent to Afghanistan nearly three years ago as part of a military surge have left the country.

Rapid urbanisation has changed the characters of many Hanoi’s traditional handicraft villages, including Hau Ai, which specialises in making Mid-autumn toys.

Representatives of the Asia Pacific Fishery Commission's member countries gathered yesterday in Da Nang to discuss ways to develop regional fisheries in a sustainable manner.

In the year to mid-September, seven of Vietnam’s agricultural export staples have entered the billion US dollar club, which includes commodities that bring in revenues worth at least US$1 billion for the country.

Cooking in Hoi An is one of the activities ranked in the top 10 special travel experiences in the world. This is voted by the Lonely Planet, the "lodestar of backpackers".