Society

Lawmakers are asking the government to draft a new scenario for the national economy, as the economic slowdown is looming large and the 6-6.5 percent GDP target set for this year is unlikely to be met.

Mark Zuckerberg married his longtime girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, in a private wedding at his home in Palo Alto, Calif. on Saturday.

The 11-year old girl from Ho Chi Minh City who paranormal investigators think has a strange ability to burn things around her continued to cause another mysterious fire.

Italy was in shock on Saturday after an unexplained bombing at a school killed a 16-year-old girl.

On May 19 the Council of State Awards and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism held a ceremony to present the Ho Chi Minh and State Awards for Literature and the Arts and announce the winners of the

The appointment of Fleur Pellerin as France's first S.Korean-born minister has prompted soul searching over social values in S.Korea where she was adopted at the age of six months.

HCMC inter-ministerial inspection delegation found a series of real estate projects which have turned the land areas reserved for parks and verdure into the land for housing and office.

When looking at Decision 71 on regulations for pilot investment under the form of Public-Private Partnerships in Viet Nam, investors found it difficult to join.

A programme launched two years ago to provide vocational training to rural workers will focus on quality and not quantity though it targets training 600,000 people this year.

Japan said that it stood ready to extend help in stemming the eurozone's debt crisis as the Group of Eight major industrialized nations opened crisis talks.

The Alstom – Phu My Energy Services Joint Venture will be set up to operate a gas turbine repair centre, the first of its kind in Vietnam.

A delegation of leaders of the Party, State, Government, NA laid a wreath in tribute to President Ho Chi Minh at his mausoleum on the occasion of the 122nd anniversary of his birth.

The former chairman of the state-owned shipping company Vinalines and two other high-ranking officials have been arrested in Hanoi.

President Truong Tan Sang made a visit to the Vietnam-Russia Tropical Centre on May 18.

An exhibition titled “President Ho Chi Minh and the task of building, reorganising the Communist Party” was held on the occasion of the late president's 122nd birth anniversary.

World leaders will huddle at Camp David with the focus on Greece as it stumbles toward a possible eurozone exit.

Vietnam recorded a PC software piracy rate of 81 percent last year, a reduction of 2 percent for two years in a row, compared to 83 percent in 2010 and 85 percent in 2009.

Contestants for Vietnam’s Next Top Model 2012 will have the opportunity to undergo a real-life experience during an upcoming trip to the US as part of the show.