Society

One of Indonesia's most active volcanoes erupted Tuesday, spewing clouds of ash and panicking villagers but no evacuation has been ordered so far, a government vulcanologist said.

President Truong Tan Sang received 90 young entrepreneurs, who are delegates to the 4 th Congress of Young Entrepreneurs’ Association (YEA) for the 2011-2014 term.

The Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee met in Hanoi to discuss a number of important issues related to Party building and infrastructure development.

A first team of Arab League monitors landed in Syria to monitor a deal to end nine months of deadly violence.

Le Huynh Thuy Ngan has entered the top 20 of the Miss Tourism Queen International beauty pageant, being held in China.

The Vietnam Football Federation will employ a domestic coach if it sacks the German coach, Falko Goetz, said the federation chairman.

Malaysian wildlife authorities said the capture of a young female Borneo Sumatran rhino had given them a last chance to save the highly endangered species.

Since Vietnam and Japan have yet to sign any agreements to officially import Kobe beef, any shipments of the luxury beef caught entering Vietnam will be destroyed, said an official.

South Korea still requires a large number of Vietnamese guest labourers despite some minor labour issues, the Vietnamese envoy to that country has said.

Vietnamese taekwondo martial artists have finalised their preparations for the coming London Olympics next August.

Thousands of people in Quang Ngai Province had their lives interrupted after giving up their land for a hydro power project.

Vietnam has recently won second prize in an international programming contest held in Japan.

Insufficient human resources was a major challenge for Vietnam in responding to climate change, said an official from the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry.

Vietnam's trade deficit this year was the lowest in the past 10 years, reaching just over $9.5 billion, the General Statistics Office reported.

Bollywood struck gold in 2011, revving up lacklustre box offices in India with help from its leading men who wooed audiences back to cinemas after a dismal 2010.

A wind power plant is expected to be built in the central province of Binh Dinh in the first quarter of 2012.

Mark Zuckerberg, founder of the social network Facebook has been in Vietnam since December 22 for his holiday.

The Da Nang International Airport in the central coastal city of Da Nang put a new terminal into service on Dec. 25, after four years of construction.

A series of Christmas Day bomb attacks targeting churches and a suicide blast in Nigeria killed at least 40 people.