Society

Many experts and NA deputies have shown their supports for the recognition of same sex marriage in Vietnam.

A province in the central region rejects candidates who graduated from part-time training programs when recruiting public servants in a bid to improve its public administration quality.

Top lawmakers agreed that stronger and more realistic measures are necessary to shore up activities related to natural resources exploitation in accordance with environment protection.

Dengue fever is ravaging nationwide, but many of them have yet to receive budgets for the epidemic control.

Police and protesters gathered outside Ecuador's embassy in London ahead of an announcement from Quito on whether or not it has granted asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

The war between the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism and local departments of culture, sports and tourism on the card fee sharing proportion has become more violent.

Viettel, the country's leading telecom firm, said it will invest in a mobilephone network in Timor Leste (East Timor) as part of its global business expansion plan.

A young woman wearing a dress made only of lettuce walked around Hanoi's Hoan Kiem Lake to urge people to go vegetarian.

Despite a ban on the products, so-called aphrodisiacs or “love-potions” can easily be found in HCM City.

Militants armed with guns and rocket launchers stormed a Pakistani air force base before dawn on Thursday, sparking heavy clashes that left eight people dead, officials said.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has instructed cities and provinces to re-examine and monitor foreigners working in Vietnam.

Finnish telecom giant Nokia and Microsoft plan to unveil a smartphone equipped with the US software giant's Windows 8 operating system on September 5, a report said.

More than 10,000 primary and secondary school students in Kon Tum province have been screened for vision problems under an eye care project supported by the US Government.

Vietnam and Cambodia pledged to continue working closely in fighting and preventing drug trafficking and drug-related crimes across the common border.

Buildings in HCMC are using their ground floors for other purposes, driving their residents into parking their vehicles outside.

China urged Japan to immediately release 14 Chinese nationals held over a protest landing on the two countries' disputed islands.

Fans of Elvis Presley are flocking to his Graceland estate for Thursday's 35th anniversary of his death, and their enthusiasm for the king of rock 'n' roll is undiminished by the years.

An ASEAN Secretariat delegation has visited India to promote bilateral ties at the invitation of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of ASEAN-India Dialogue Relations.

By 2020, it will have cost almost 1.8 billion USD to shorten the travelling time by train from Hanoi to HCM City, said a team of specialist advisors from JICA.