Society

Libraries in Ho Chi Minh City are presently facing many difficulties like shortage of capital, lack of proper premises and poorly trained human resources.

Kaolin mining is destroying tea fields in Bao Loc in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong.

Vietnamese enterprises have some advantages in investing in Myanmar due to the economic situation and reforms in Myanmar that are quite similar to Vietnam in the past.

VND11.27 trillion ($524 million) is the amount of money that will be spent to build the new National Museum of History in Hanoi. Meanwhile, if several billion dong was quickly poured for the renovation of Tram Gian Buddhist Temple,

The amended Land Law draft attempts to create a provision on fairer land pricing, however, it is too vague to ensure feasibility in practice, agreed members of the National Assembly's Standing Committee yesterday during a review of the proposal.

Tran Ngoc Lan Khue, a promising contestant for the 2012 Vietnam Supermodel, will join models from 10 Asian countries to take part in the Asian Super Model Contest in China.

Automobile manufacturers, authorized distribution companies and private car dealers have always been suffering a constant anxiety about the changeable policies.

Anti-Japan protests reignited across China on Tuesday, forcing Japanese firms in the country to suspend operations.

Phnom Penh, Vientiane and HCMC signed an agreement on tourism cooperation that encompasse the three cities.

Smartphone sales in Vietnam are forecast to increase 5 percent year on year to 21 percent of total mobile phone sales in 2012, said an expert.

Mitt Romney was rocked by a secretly filmed video in which he said nearly half of Americans back President Obama because they are government-dependent "victims" who dodge taxes.

Major Japanese brandname firms announced factory shutdowns in China and urged expatriates to stay indoors ahead of what could be more angry protests over a territorial dispute between Asia's two biggest economies.

The ethnic minorities in Cao Bang Province celebrate their crops and show their gratefulness to the ancestors and god of agriculture.

Vietnam on September 17 recorded a hard fought 2-1 victory over a dogged 10-woman Myanmar side in the last group match of the ASEAN Women's Football Championships.

President Truong Tan Sang asked the National Defence Academy to study deeply the global military science to advise the Party, State and the army and serve its training.

Experts from the IUCN are preparing the dossiers of the Cat Tien National Park to be submitted to the UNESCO for recognition as a world natural heritage.

Former PM Silvio Berlusconi has returned to the political frontline, vowing to abolish a key tax on homes in remarks likely to stoke investors' jitters about Italy's future after an election next spring.

Fifty eight students, aged 6 to 25, with particular defects have been learning with Teacher Le Thi Hoa for six years at Huong Lan Pagoda, Hanoi's Chuong My District.

On the occasion of his official working visit to Vietnam on September 17-19, 2012 German Federal Minister of Economics and Technology Philipp Rosler said this visit was to sharpen the two nations’ bilateral investment and trade ties.