Society

Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang held talks with Spain's finance minister at the start of a visit focusing on economic issues, including the crisis in Spain, and business deals.

Follow as Nguoi Lao Dong reporters Long Giang and Ha Minh take you inside HCMC’s underground slaughterhouses.

Total retail sales of commodities and services surged by 24.5 percent year on year to roughly 78 billion USD in 2010.

Although the fledgling plastics industry has recorded remarkable growth, it still faces many difficulties and it is essential to devise a long-term development strategy.

China is estimated to have made a record 1.5 billion dollars in box office takings in 2010, as a growing number of well-off urbanites flock to the cinema.

Foreigners should enjoy simplified administrative procedures when it comes to obtaining residence permits from early April thanks to a new Government resolution.

An art exhibition featuring Vietnamese folklore paintings and antiques are on display in the Vinh Long Province as part of a series of activities to mark the upcoming Tet.

Australian residents fled their homes as a major town was threatened by a worsening flood disaster which unleashed a plague of snakes and crocodiles.

As makers roll out slim versions of Playstation, smart phones, TVs and everything state-of-the-art, Hanoi boasts many slim houses just less than 2m wide but towering sky-high.

Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson said it is partnering with US doctors to improve a blood test that could replace biopsies and transform the field of cancer treatment.

The National Assembly Standing Committee opened its 37 session in Hanoi on January 4 under the chairmanship of NA Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong.

The PM has stepped up the fight against trade fraud and smuggling which heats up during the lead up to Tet holiday.

The General Statistics Office has announced the unemployment rate among Vietnam’s workforce stood at 2.88 percent in 2010.

Vietnam's Son Doong cave is the largest in the world, with caverns big enough to fit an entire city street inside them.

The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Processors predicts that tra fish exports in 2011 will be more stressful than 2010, the lack of input will become serious.

The Haiti earthquake and floods in Pakistan and China helped make 2010 an exceptional year for natural disasters, killing 295,000 and costing $130 billion.

2011 is an important year for Vietnam as the 11th National Party Congress- the event of first magnitude in the year will open in Hanoi.

Two Afghan policemen stand paralysed by fear in front of a plastic cup. But this is not some farcical scene from the battle against the Taliban -- it is a sketch from a new clown show in Kabul.

Though 30 percent of Vietnamese, or 26 million people, use the internet, online booksellers have a long way to go to catch up with traditional bookshops.