Society

Japan’s cruise liner Pacific Venus carrying 550 tourists and crew docked at the Saigon Port on Feb. 3, the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Partisans of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stormed the Cairo stronghold of anti-regime protesters, sparking bloody clashes.

Tens of thousands of people flocked to Hoan Kiem Lake in downtown Hanoi to watch the fireworks display during the first minutes of the new Lunar New Year.

The Vietnamese community in Thailand tries to pass on its traditional values to a younger generation born and raised in a foreign country.

Millions of Americans dug out from an epic winter storm that buried more than a third of the United States in snow, sleet and ice.

Australia's biggest cyclone in a century shattered entire towns after striking the coast and churning across the vast country Thursday.

Brazil has allowed the release of rare photographs of an uncontacted Amazonian tribe to bring attention to the plight of indigenous people.

Vietnamese people welcome the New Year with Spring coming to every corner of the country.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has asked the Government to subsidise people whose buffaloes had suffered from the extreme cold.

The central United States was caught in the grip of a historic winter storm Wednesday, buried by drifting snow and sleet.

The Egyptian military called for an end to more than a week of demonstrations against President Hosni Mubarak.

Despite a lot of difficulties, the demand for human resources was still very high in 2010 and is expected to keep increasing in 2011.

A terrifying cyclone roaring towards Australia has strengthened to the most dangerous threat level.

An exhibition was opened in Paris to introduce traditional brocade weaving products of the Vietnamese ethnic minority people of Mong.

Chelsea smashed the British transfer record to sign Spain striker Fernando Torres for £50 million from Liverpool.

Good conditions and higher prices for fish make for a happier holiday in central Nghe An province.

Over the past decade, the trade deficit along with high inflation has been named as the most alarming threat to Vietnam’s macroeconomy.

A high-class urban railway system is one of the most important solutions to improving the traffic system in Hanoi, but it will be a long time coming.

Oil giant BP is forecast to post its first annual loss in almost 20 years as it struggles to face the aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.