Society

Customs officials at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City have seized a large haul of ivory worth an estimated $218,000 from two Vietnamese passengers.

Primary, secondary, and junior school teachers work 60 to 70 hours a week, but half of them get paid below the national average, a workshop heard in HCM City on Wednesday.

Bulgarian authorities released images of the suspected suicide bomber behind a deadly attack on Israeli tourists.

Pollution was spreading in the Dong Nai River Basin, the main source of water for 16 million people living in the area, said an official from the Vietnam Institute for Tropical Technology and Environmental Protection.

The young man, who has been suspected of uploading photos showing the brutal killing of two rare monkeys, is a serviceman, police sources said.

Cambodia and Indonesia have agreed in principle on a number of issues over the East Sea , said the two countries’ to diplomats.

Rebels seized control of sections of Syria's international borders and torched the main police headquarters in the heart of old Damascus.

Every Vietnamese person discharges one kilo of electronic waste every year. The waste could be a “mountain of gold” if Vietnam can exploit it.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung has asked relevant ministries and sectors to pay more attention to housing projects for the poor.

Japan's Honda Motor said Thursday it is recalling more than 320,000 vehicles worldwide because of a door lock defect.

The Goethe Institute has launched the Southeast Asian Student Documentary Award, a documentary-making competition for the best works about social and environmental issues focusing on water.

China's President Hu Jintao said Beijing would offer $20 billion in new loans to Africa, underscoring the Asian powerhouse's growing links with the resource-rich continent.

Kazakhstan’s flag carrier Air Astania has decided to open a new air route between Ho Chi Minh city and Kazakhstan in December.

At least 31 people have drowned and more than a hundred more are missing feared dead after a ferry sank off Zanzibar, police said Thursday, a day after the accident.

England will defend their ranking as the top Test team in the world when they come up against a strong South African side in the first of three Test matches at the Oval on Thursday.

A student of the HCM City Foreign Trade University has made a handbook of green tips for housewives, becoming one of eight students nationwide recognised as Bayer environmental ambassadors this year

Microsoft says Windows 8 will go on sale Oct. 26. The upgrade to its operating system is designed to work better with touch screens and on tablet computers.

Police announced an investigation into the cruel killing of two endangered monkeys that were severely abused and then boiled by a group of young men dressed in military uniform.

Police have identified two Vietnamese-Americans shot in an apparent murder-suicide Sunday at a Virginia shopping center.