Society

The Republic of Korea’s MBC Television wants to support Agent Orange victims in Vietnam, MBC General Director Kim Jae Cheul said.

Over 82% of the 57,000 businesses established this year had stopped operations or dissolved as of September, an official has said.

The government of Thua Thien-Hue Province approved a project worth VND1.3 trillion to preserve the Hue royal citadel, a world cultural heritage.

The Ministry of Education and Training rescheduled the working curriculum of preschool teachers, reducing their working hours to 42 weeks per year.

The Association of Overseas Vietnamese in the Republic of Korea opened the first course on the RoK language and culture to Vietnamese brides.

The number of hand, foot and mouth patients has risen to nearly 78,000, but the Ministry of Health has yet to designate it as a national pandemic.

The Ministry of Education and Training has concluded that Deputy Health Minister Cao Minh Quang has used a fake doctoral degree.

Europe sealed a last-ditch deal to fix its festering debt crisis, pledging new funds for Greece and pushing banks to share the pain.

Singer Amy Winehouse was more than five times over the British drink-drive limit when she died, an inquest heard.

Officials in a Hanoi's commune took measures to remove local house numbers, compounding an already in force electricity supply ban.

The word that most crops up when you ask expats in Vietnam about their level of Vietnamese is “plateaued”.

Vietnam Airlines and Qantas’s low-cost carrier Jetstar are negotiating to elevate Vietnam Airlines to majority shareholder in Jetstar Pacific.

Danang City has won the “ASEAN Environmentally Sustainable City” Award, a municiapl official said on October 25.

The intricate cuisine of central Vietnam, linked to emperors demanding 50-course meals, is whetting appetites in California.

Vietnam and Cambodia plan to search for and repatriate about 1,350 sets of remains of Vietnamese voluntary soldiers and experts in the dry season of 2011-2012.

Eurozone leaders have agreed to leverage the firepower of their bailout fund to one trillion euros ($1.39 trillion), French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Thursday.

Vietnam's National Hospital of Pediatrics in Hanoi announced the initial success of its first stem cell therapy treatment of pidermolysis bullosa (EB)

Online game providers in Vietnam will be required to restrict online gamers to just three hours a day of game-play.

The Hanoi police arrested two Chinese men last Thursday for trying to swindle some locals, including a law-firm employee, by selling fake gold.