Society

Vietnam attaches importance to developing friendship and comprehensive cooperation with Chile, said president Truong Tan Sang at the talks with Chilean President Sebastian Pinera Echenique.

A US soldier will be charged with 17 counts of murder stemming from the killings of civilians in Afghanistan, a US official said.

French police shot dead a self-declared Al-Qaeda militant wanted for a series of killings of soldiers and Jews, ending a tense 32-hour siege in the south of France.

The international community will subsidise Afghan security forces by more than $4 billion a year for a decade after US-led combat forces leave Afghanistan in 2014, President Hamid Karzai said.

After several news stories highlighting the sale of toxic pork, many people in Can Tho have opted to buy fish despite higher prices.

Medical insurance is set to become compulsory by 2014 according to an ambitious new programme.

Vietnam’s Next Top Model 2011’s runner-up Nguyen Thi Tra My has just become the third runner-up at the 6th annual Top Model Worldwide modeling contest in London.

Investigation Police Ha Tinh Province said they would take strict action against those responsible for illegal felling of trees and denuding forest land in Huong Son District's Son Hong Commune.

The heads of provincial traffic safety committees may face disciplinary action in serious traffic accidents occur in their localities.

While the “personal vehicle circulation fee” is still a controversy, Minister of Transport Dinh La Thang has suggested calling it as “personal vehicle restriction fee”.

A company pocketed hundreds of millions of dong by recruiting only pregnant women, swindling them of their maternal benefits.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved an $85-million new education model in primary schools.

The UN Security Council demanded that Syria immediately implement a peace plan by special envoy Kofi Annan, even as government forces pounded rebel zones around Damascus and Homs.

Despite the rising rice export prices, many farmers still have to pile up paddies in their houses since buyers, if any, always demand dirt cheap prices.

About 20-30% of agricultural land in Vietnam is expected to be flooded by the year 2100 due to rising sea levels, leading to a vast reduction in the country's food production capacity.

Riot police set off explosions outside an apartment building to force the surrender of a gunman who killed seven people.

The Deputy PM urged that quick solutions be found to risks posed by cracks recorded in the Tranh River 2 hydropower dam.

The governments of the United States and Vietnam signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation on low emission development in Hanoi .

Vietnam asked China to immediately set free the 21 Vietnamese fishermen and two fishing vessels seized on March 3.