Society

In the past two months, up to 200 children have drowned in Vietnam, causing a big concern among the public.

President Barack Obama eased investment sanctions on Myanmar and named the first US ambassador to the country in 22 years, seeking to reward an easing of "iron fist" rule.

At the heart of HCM City, in Ward 15 of District 8, Ma Lang Hill is home to dozens of people who earn money by cleaning used hessian bags.

A festival featuring the cuisine of Vietnam’s southern provinces will be held in Ho Chi Minh City next week.

Vietnamese fiscal and monetary policies will likely be more maneuverable in 2012 as the country’s macroeconomic situation is stabilising.

Twelve teams will take part in the 2012 Hanoi International Judo Tournament being held from May 19-21, announced the organising board.

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) on mining and processing rare earth in northern Lai Chau province’s Tam Duong district was signed with Japan.

A passenger bus crashed through bridge railing in Dak Lak Province, leaving more than 30 dead and 20 injured.

The third session of the 13th National Assembly will open on May 21, and is expected to approve 13 draft laws and seven resolutions, and comment on six other bills.

Three people were killed after a chaotic shooting scene that had crowds running for cover in Louisville in the USA.

A caretaker government took office in Greece to organise a second election after an inconclusive May 6 vote.

A Frenchman who lost his limbs braved currents to swim from Papua New Guinea to Indonesia, in the first stretch of a mission to swim between five continents.

Hundreds of households in the new resettlement areas built by hydropower plant investors in Quang Nam Province face great difficulties.

It's been hundreds of years since the Tasmanian devil last lived on the Australian mainland but a pioneering group is being bred for survival.

A collection of woodblocks printed with Buddhist Sutras was officially listed as world heritage by UNESCO on May 16.

Vietnam has 1,700 vocational training schools which annually provide more than 1.6 million workers but the market is still running short of skilled labourers.

Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai ordered the Ministry of Industry and Trade to make the schedule to use bio-fuel compulsorily by next year.

A large number of infertile couples are turning to the black market for sperm donations to due to major shortages in hospitals.

Vietnam is seriously lacking manpower in some professions, while it has many redundant workers in other fields.