Society

Fourteen toll booths will be removed under a proposal by the Vietnam Road Administration in order to avoid overlapping toll collections.

The musical "Once" was the big winner at this year's Tony awards ceremony, scooping eight prizes.

Scientists have urged to take actions to revitalize coral reefs, warning that Vietnam should not dream of developing tourism with barren seabed.

Police arrested the director of a company that only employed pregnant women so they could take advantage of benefits from maternity insurance.

A mathematics book for students in the first grade has recently aroused fury among many people due to its violent content.

Pham Phuoc Hung has won a gold medal in the men’s parallel bars event of the Challengers Cup 2012 International Gymnastics Tournament in Belgium.

Italy showed great character after a traumatic run-in to Euro 2012 by holding defending champions Spain to a 1-1 draw.

A large number of farmers in Ben Tre province are rushing to chop down their coconut trees as selling the fruits seems nearly impossible.

Vietnam and Spain always attached great importance to strengthening their bilateral cooperation since they established diplomatic relations.

A large number of young people joined the “I Like Giving” festival, aiming to encourage the community to donate blood to save people’s lives.

Two mortar bombs struck a square filled with Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims in Iraq, killing at least six people, police said.

The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang will develop its Phu Quoc island into an eco-tourism centre, under the province’s tourism development strategy for the 2011-2020 period.

Vietnam ’s leading travel agencies, including Hanoi Toserco, Saigontourist and Fiditour, met with over 150 Sri Lankan partners in Colombo city on June 8 in their efforts to promote Vietnamese tourism.

The IMF and US both praised a Eurogroup deal giving Spain a lifeline of up to €100 bn ($125 billion) to save its stricken banks.

Doctors in the Children Hospital No.2 in Ho Chi Minh City are now suspecting exposure to dioxin as a possible cause of the bizarre skin disease in patients arriving from Ba To District in the central province of Quang Ngai.

Russia's Maria Sharapova became the 10th woman in tennis history to win all four Grand Slam titles when she defeated Italy's Sara Errani 6-3, 6-2 in the French Open final.

People in Ban Hon Commune Lai Chau Province have been rushing to dig up rare earth minerals to sell.

Vietnam along with 142 other member countries attended the fourth session of the UNESCO General Council Convention on the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Paris on June 4-8.

A ceremony marking 30 years in operation of the Hue Relic Conservation Centre (1982-2012) was held on June 9 in the central Thua Thien-Hue province.