Society

Vietnam has successfully defended its national report on the implementation of human rights.

Oil prices spiked to fresh two-year highs on Wednesday as traders reacted to news of plunging crude reserves in the United States.

More than 100 chief judges and judges from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia and their border provinces are attending a two-day conference in Nha Trang.

Southern California was bracing for the most intense storm system yet, with evacuations ordered, roads covered by water and mud.

Pedagogy universities and colleges should offer courses in ethics and values as well as more professional training, speakers at a Ho Chi Minh City workshop said on Dec. 21.

The State Bank of Vietnam said Wednesday it has allowed four branches of foreign banks in the country to raise their registered capital.

General Phung Quang Thanh visited and congratulated legendary General Vo Nguyen Giap on the occasion of the 66th anniversary of the Vietnam People’s Army.

Hackers attacked the website of the World Taekwondo Federation after it punished a Taiwanese fighter for allegedly cheating at the Asian Games.

Scores of villagers on a remote Japanese island chain in the Pacific scrambled for higher ground after a major 7.4-magnitude offshore quake sparked a tsunami alert.

Hanoi leaders visited and extended their best wishes for the coming Christmas to the Hanoi Committee for Solidarity of Catholics and Catholic dignitaries and followers.

The southern central province of Binh Thuan will host the International Sailing Festival 2011 in Mui Ne Resort on January 15-18.

European airports fought to clear a backlog of thousands of stranded Christmas travellers as arctic conditions gripped the continent and sparked fresh delays and cancellations.

A lack of facilities and a shortage of qualified teachers have adversely affected the pilot English language teaching programme for primary school children.

The Vietnam Anti-Corruption Initiative (VACI) programme 2011 was introduced at a seminar in Hanoi on Dec. 21.

French families arrived in Haiti to fetch a group of Haitian children they adopted in the wake of a devastating earthquake that ravaged the impoverished country.

The average life expectancy of a Vietnamese person is now 72.8 years, Director of the General Department of Population and Family Planning announced at a meeting.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism and the Vietnamese Embassy in Malaysia held a gala night on to promote Vietnam’s tourism in Kuala Lumpur. 

Vietnamese scientists urged Hanoi authorities to wipe out an invasive species of turtles that is threatening endangered local species.

Skygazers with a clear view in N.America and Europe were greeted with a celestial treat