Society

Top Vietnamese and Lao Party leaders agreed to step up the exchange of information and experience, especially in national industrialisation and modernisation.

Rioting and looting spread across London as hooded youths set buildings and cars ablaze in a third night of violence in Britain's worst unrest in decades.

Vietnam has protested China’s acts of violating the sovereignty and asked it to cease and refrain from recurrence of similar acts.

The Vietnamese Foreign Ministry organised a ceremony to hoist the flags of ASEAN and Vietnam to mark the 44th founding anniversary of ASEAN.

The Asian Youth Orchestra, which comprises 100 best music students in Asia chosen annually by audition, will perform in Hanoi twice next week.

While the demand for motorbikes has been increasing, the number of domestic motorbike manufacturers has been decreasing.

Nearly 10 years after scientists cloned the first cat, predictions of a vast commercial market for the "resurrection" of beloved pets through cloning have fallen flat.

Different tour packages will be presented during a festival at the Moc Chau Plateau in Son La Province from August 27 to September 2.

The European Central Bank is ready to buy Spanish and Italian government debt, French Finance Minister Francois Baroin said Monday.

Within one day of your visit to Nha Trang city, you'll have a chance to discover wild islands and enjoy what you can't do in the mainland.

Many teaching and other staff at a private univeristy in HCM City are miffed with what they call are its unfair wage policy and wrongdoings.

Nguyen Phuong Anh, a 18-year-old student from Hungary, was crowned Miss Vietnam in Europe 2011 in the final round held in Germany.

Many billion-dollar FDI projects have been registered in Vietnam since 2006, accounting for one-fourth of the nation's total FDI commitment.

The HCM City market management authorities have seized more than 2.2 tonnes of dubious herbal medicines stored in two dirty, unhygienic warehouses.

China can be prevented from repeating all 5 titles in the world championships at Wembley arena, said the former world number one from Denmark.

Hanoi lags far behind its plan to upgrade old and dilapidated residential quarters, said an official.

Consumer prices will continue to surge at a rate of about 1% in August, predicts the Ministry of Finance.

Nam Phan will be the 1st Vietnamese-American athlete to compete at the UFC, a mixed martial arts event comprising boxing, Thai muay and karate.

NATO says it is investigating Taliban claims that they shot down a helicopter killing a team of 30 American troops.