Society

Vietnam earned $6 billion from seafood exports this year, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers.

An Australian gold mining exploration company said it had halted activities at a project in Indonesia, after a violent protest at a nearby port last week that left two people dead.

North Korea Wednesday began the funeral of late leader Kim Jong-Il, Russian media reported from a snowy Pyongyang.

Doctors from Ho Chi Minh City’s Cho Ray Hospital have pledged to treat a 35-year-old woman who is densely covered with bubble-like lumps.

“Vietnam – Timeless Charm” and the five petal lotus have been selected as the slogan and symbol of Vietnamese tourism in 2012-2015 term.

Iran threatened to stop the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz if foreign sanctions were imposed on its crude exports over its nuclear ambitions.

The Transport Minister proposed that car owners must have legal parking lots before registering their vehicles.

What to buy for Tet gifts to bosses is now the headache of many office workers. Expensive “royal food” which is good to human heath is the choice of many people.

A foreign-invested enterprise in HCM City will pay a New Year 2012 bonus of $33,300 per employee this year, the highest rate among the businesses that have announced their bonus plans.

Actress Minh Huong who starred in the film Dung Dot as Doctor Dang Thuy Tram won the best actress award at the 8th International Festival of Military Patriotic Films.

The Phu My Hung Spring Flower Festival this year hopes to bring a richer assortment of blossoms to attract more residents and visitors during the Tet holiday.

Four Vietnamese “treasures” have been put up for sale as part of an online auction aimed at raising several billion VND to be used to help people living in poverty in the New Year.

Export of Tet specialties to serve overseas Vietnamese has dipped in volume this year because of the economic downturn.

Dr. Pham Cao Thanh Tung from South Korea’s Sogang University is the first Vietnamese whose research work is published on the American Science AAAs journal.

Sapa ancient rock field, which is being proposed as UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site, is in a state of serious deterioration.

Hundreds of primary school students in Chu Van An Primary School in northern Haiphong City will no longer have to carry heavy bags to school this year.

A Vietnamese cargo ship manned by 23 sailors went missing, while traveling from Indonesia to China.

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg visited some Tay ethnic villages in Thanh Phu and Ban Ho communes, Sapa district, Lao Cai province on December 26.

The death toll from killer floods in the Philippines surged by more than 200 on Tuesday, more than a week after the disaster struck.