Society

Quang Ngai Province has opened up to bids for the exploitation of antiques from the recently discovered wrecked ship.

Hundreds of students have been caught and punished for traffic violations in the last month after a concentrated crackdown by Hanoi police.

Controversial rapper Nicki Minaj and country singer Keith Urban joined the "American Idol" judging panel on Sunday, as the ageing Fox show seeks to boost its star power.

The Song Tranh 2 Hydro-power Plant in the central province of Quang Nam again was struck by two more earthquakes.

President Barack Obama will launch a trade complaint against China over what his administration says is Beijing's unfair government backing of its auto industry, a White House official said.

Vietnam has yet to pay appropriate attention to learning about the influences and the electronics waste treatment methods.

Hundreds of urban and residential projects in Hanoi are now still on paper.

Britain's royal family takes to the courts to try to stop the spread of topless photos of Prince William's wife Catherine, but an Italian magazine plans to devote 26 pages to the grainy snaps.

The streets of Hanoi's old quarter are becoming busier for the Mid-Autumn Festival, coming in two weeks.

Vietnam’s first civil pilot training centre made its debut in Cam Ranh peninsula, the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa after sending out the first 23 certified graduates.

The People’s Committee of Quang Nam Province has just approved the construction of an open-air theatre in the Hoi An old town.

Gold bullion copying SJC has recently re-emerged on the market, dismaying both gold traders and the bars’ authentic producer, Saigon Jewelry Co.

Vietnamese women were defeated 0-3 by their hosts Kazakhstan, ranking fourth in the 2012 Asian Women’s Volleyball Championships on September 16.

YouTube has begun restricting access to videos of an anti-Islamic film in the world's most populous Muslim nation, a government official said.

Libyan leader Mohammed Magarief said that about 50 people have been arrested in connection with the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi last week.

A Vietnam-Japan friendship concert, featuring Mandolin orchestra of Meiji University, Japan, took place at Hanoi’s Au Co theatre on September 15.

Italy continues to give priority to Vietnam in its cooperation development policy, affirmed Deputy Foreign Minister Staffan De Mistura at a political consultation with his visiting Vietnamese counterpart Bui Thanh Son.

Police in Hanoi is hunting for a businesswoman who has appropriated about US$867,000 from her Japanese partner and fled.

Undercover FBI agents arrested an 18-year-old American man who tried to detonate what he believed was a car bomb outside a downtown Chicago bar, federal prosecutors said.