Society

Vietnam has seen increasing resistance to antibiotics in recent years, posing a greater risk to patients.

An investor of a trade centre and office building project offered tenants a USD2.3-million compensation price for a 56 s.q.m area in Hanoi.

Heterosexuals who take daily AIDS drugs reduce the risk of being infected by HIV by nearly two-thirds, ground-breaking studies said on Wednesday.

Both competent agencies and scientists are still fumbling for an effective solution to control the polluted river of Saigon.

Participants in the 2011 Green Itinerary Walk Across Vietnam arrived in Quang Tri Province and joined many activities to support AO victims.

Dien Bien Province has approved a project to teach Thai and Mong languages to primary school children during the academic years 2011-2015.

After three months of treatment for wounds caused by bacterial infection, Sword Lake’s turtle was released on July 12 afternoon.

Eurozone leaders mulled convening a crisis summit as global pressure mounted for a swift and solid response from Europe to stop debt contagion.

Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City have been named among top ten Asian cities for 2011 by the US Travel and Leisure magazine.

Doctors say Vietnamese consumers are being fooled by exaggerated ads about the cure-all benefit of nutritional supplements.

Two US astronauts have wrapped up the last spacewalk of the shuttle era at the International Space Station.

Discrimination hinders millions of disabled people in Vietnam from exercising their basic right for a healthy sex life.

South Korea’s cinema conglomerate CJ-CVG will spend USD73.6 million to own MegaStar, the largest multiplex cinema chain in Vietnam.

Preventive medicine centres have done a poor job of preventing the outbreak of dengue fever in children in HCM City, according to city officials.

The ADB will help the Greater Mekong Subregion scale up the use of agricultural biomass waste for its growing clean energy and food security needs.

The International Monetary Fund named Chinese economist Zhu Min to a new deputy managing director's position.

The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters & Producers said it would pursue the country’s claim against US-anti-dumping measures on its frozen shrimp shipments.

Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami in March are set to make 2011 the costliest year on record for natural disasters, a German firm said.

The Vietnamese embassy in Russia held a fundraiser on July 11 to raise money for Agent Orange/Dioxin victims in the homeland.