Society

University graduates of less than 30 years old will have an opportunity to become vice chairs of 600 communes in Vietnam.

Fewer than 92,000 couples married in or around Sin City last year. The last time the city of drive-through wedding chapels married fewer people, it was 1993.

India has stopped corn and soymeal exports to Vietnam after Hanoi rejected cargoes totaling 50,000 tons over fumigation issues.

Vietnam always attaches importance to expanding the strategic partnership with Japan, said Deputy PM and FM Phạm Gia Khiem.

The Lim Festival officially opened in northern Bac Ninh province on Feb. 14, drawing around 30,000 visitors.

Egypt on Tuesday called for international support to speed its recovery after its military rulers urged an end to labour strikes that have erupted.

Pagodas and temples are sacred places, but many visitors behave as if they were not.

Notwithstanding much higher prices than usual, most hotel rooms in HCMC were overbooked on the night of Valentine’s Day.

Russian journalist Boris Vinogradov has extolled the effectiveness of recipes in Vietnam’s traditional medicine to cure illnesses.

Thu Duc District and District 9 are the first two districts in Ho Chi Minh City to allocate police to deal with series of incidents involving nails.

18 sailors were starving on a Vietnamese ship that has been stranded outside India's Chennai port for nearly six months, its captain said.

If Vietnam can invite Chinese manufacturers to set up production bases, its imports would decrease, said former Vietnamese Ambassador to China.

Google on Monday gave users of its Chrome Web browser the ability to block search results from low-quality websites known as content farms.

The domestic market has noted sharp changes after the central bank adjusted up the inter-bank rate by 9.3% and narrowed the trading band for the dong.

A court in Ecuador ordered US oil giant Chevron to pay an estimated USD8 billion in a lawsuit alleging the firm caused environmental damage.

Charity activities on Nguyen Hue Flower Street raised VND568 million for the HCMC Sponsoring Association for Poor Patients during Tet.

US President Barack Obama unveiled a USD3.73-trillion spending blueprint for 2012 on Monday, including a raft of tax hikes and spending cuts.

The transport sector was forecast to find it difficult attracting investment capital for transport infrastructure projects, said the deputy prime minister.

Egypt's military government urged a halt to widespread strikes inspired by a popular uprising that threatened to paralyse the country.