Society

David Nguyen, a Vietnamese student in the US has been granted a scholarship from Gates Millennium Scholars Programme founded by billionaire Bill Gates.

The “Samsung Hope Relay” to promote the 2012 London Summer Olympics and raise funds for charity was held in HCM City on June 17, attracting 7,400 people.

People at Suoi Giang Commune in the mountainous province of Yen Bai have rushed to look for ornamental stones for sale.

There are 12 public companies holding over VND1 trillion (USD47.6 million) in cash, but most of them are also big debtors.

Hanoi has been rated as the cheapest destination for travelers in summer 2012, according to the US website TripAdvisor.

Nearly 57 percent of the sea area around Kien Giang Province's Phu Quoc Island is affected by coral bleaching.

World powers and Iran resume nuclear crisis talks amid fears that failure on this occasion may lead to a permanent breakdown and push the sides ever closer to the use of force.

Many young Vietnamese people are choosing to work freelance and are finding it a way of earning more than salary jobs.

Tourists to the ancient capital of Hue will have the chance to enjoy the real life of the old city rather than just viewing relics or landscape as they usually do.

A meeting was held in Quang Binh province to mark the 35th anniversary of the signing of Vietnam-Lao Friendship and Cooperation Treaty and the 50th anniversary of their diplomatic ties.

Vietnam has been rated as the second happiest nation in the world thanks to its citizens’ high level of life satisfaction, high life expectancy, and environmental sustainability.

Multiple suicide attacks on churches in Nigeria and subsequent rioting by Christian youths killed at least 36 people, officials said.

China's latest space mission is its most ambitious yet and shows Beijing's resolve to increase its technological capabilities and bridge the gap with the United States and Russia, experts say.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Japan held a meeting with Vietnamese intellectuals in Japan on June 16 to seek their cooperation in boosting scientific and technological ties between the two countries.

Vietnam will strive to achieve an urbanisation rate of 38 percent with 870 urban areas by 2015, if the Government approves a draft national urban development programme from now until 2020 suggested by the Ministry of Construction.

Greeks angered by austerity took to the polls on Sunday for an election that could decide their future in the eurozone amid unprecedented external pressure not to vote for a radical leftist party.

Provinces in the Mekong Delta are taking steps and implementing measures to deal with flooding in the coming months, and minimise loss of human lives and property.

The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho is upgrading its urban infrastructure under a 90.3 million USD project funded by the World Bank (WB)’s loans.

When the Watergate complex was built in the 1960s, it was just a group of buildings. Then, 40 years ago Sunday, police in Washington arrested five men breaking into the office