Society

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will appear in a British court in a second attempt to win bail after he was arrested over allegations of sex crimes in Sweden.

The best meteor shower of the year, a display of shooting stars known as the Geminids, is set to peak early Tuesday.

Vietnam will have to play Malaysia in the first leg of the ASEAN Football Federation Suzuki Cup semi-finals in Kuala Lumpur without several of the team's best players.

The workshop themed “Vietnam National Partnership against transnational crime through regional law enforcement” was official kicked off December 13 in Hanoi.

Vietnam’s rice export revenue this year is estimated to set a record of over US$3 billion, said Vietnam Food Association chairperson Truong Thanh Phong.

Rescuers on Tuesday called off the search for 17 crew members missing from a South Korean trawler that sank off Antarctica, bringing the death toll from the tragedy to 22.

The Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee, Xth tenure, convened its 14th meeting on Dec. 13.

10,000 flower garlands and coloured lanterns were on display for a night dedicated to peace and raising money for flood victims.

British police searched a house in southeast England which is thought to be the home of an alleged suicide bomber who blew himself up in Stockholm at the weekend.

The Vietnamese Entrepreneurs Association in France made its debut at the Vietnamese Cultural Centre in Paris on December 11.

Quang Ngai Province will spend VND400 billion to develop an ecological and historical tourism complex on the historical site where doctor Dang Thuy Tram used to work.

Minister of Education and Training said more social contributions are needed to help thousands of students in the Mekong delta region.

Migrants have added to the poor population in Vietnam’s urban areas but, so far, their numbers have not been accurately measured in poverty surveys.

Permanent Deputy PM Nguyen Sinh Hung welcomed Japan’s stronger cooperation with Vietnam on many economic fields, especially developing auxiliary industries.

Twenty-two fishermen were presumed dead after their South Korean trawler sank suddenly off Antarctica on Monday.

A “Vietnam-China friendship night” was held in Hanoi on December 12 to mark the 60th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries.

Thirty contemporary oil paintings by French-Vietnamese artist Robert Mihagui are on display at an exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City.

Yearning for a gadget that was bigger than a smartphone but smaller than a laptop made tablet computing a defining trend for 2010.

In the mountainous areas of Vietnam, you will often see children who have to work hard to help their parents earn a living.