Society

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.

Vietnam’s second international fair of fine art and handicraft items, furniture and gifts will take place in HCM City from April 18 to 21.

A Spanish-Vietnamese couple will become the first people to travel around the world using solar-energy powered bicycles.

Domestic coffee prices are soaring these days causing a scramble amongst domestic and foreign companies.

State President Nguyen Minh Triet has appointed 22 new ambassadors and 11 new consul generals to serve overseas.

The number of new born babies in HCM City in the first days of the new lunar year increased sharply because the Year of Cat is considered lucky.

Three-time World Footballer of the Year Ronaldo is set to announce his retirement on Monday, Brazilian media said.