Society

Farmers in the Mekong Delta have been unable to sell their crops at a profit as purchases have mostly been brokered through several intermediaries.

A train collided with a large truck, derailing three carriages and delaying all North - South rail operations in Vietnam.

Oscar-winning British actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson was the toast of Tinseltown on Friday, receiving the 2,416th star on Hollywood's "Walk of Fame".

Hanoi is to reserve goods in case of natural disasters during the storm season of 2010.

Da Nang is conducting a pre-feasibility study on bus rapid transit systems as part of a US$300 million project funded by the World Bank.

Vietnamese researchers and scholars joined their colleagues from the UK , the US and other ASEAN countries at a conference on “Humour in ASEAN” held in Thailand.

Real estate developers are struggling to find alternative funding for their building projects rather than having to rely almost entirely on bank credit.

The Ho Chi Minh City International University model has offered a good lesson to Vietnam’s tertiary education, says Deputy PM Nguyen Thien Nhan.

Italy’s Ambassador to Vietnam Andrea Perugini has become the first foreigner to be successfully registered as the owner of a Thang Long dragon.

Vietnam’s first-ever think tank will cooperate with a French-owned institute to open a postgraduate program in communications and information technology.

It is a big challenge for Vietnamese writers to fight the wave of reading translated stories that have captivated over 15 million Vietnamese students.

The economy and development of Vietnam has grown in 2010, showing positive signs for the remainder of the year.

Some 26 staffs are under training to operate the mobile vehicle testing devices, said deputy director of the Motor Vehicle Technical Safety Inspection Department.

The proposed monorail project cannot resolve Hanoi’s traffic congestion, PhD Nguyen Xuan Thuy wrote to DTiNews .

At least 60 people were killed and hundreds injured after rare rainfall triggered flash floods Friday in an area of Indian Kashmir.

Deputy PM Nguyen Thien Nhan has approved the proposal of the Khanh Hoa Province People’s Committee to host Miss Earth 2010.

Leather and footwear exports rose 13.8 percent in the first seven months to 2.75 billion USD, according to the Vietnam Leather and Footwear Association.

Russia Thursday banned grain exports for the next four-and-a-half months due to a record drought that has destroyed millions of hectares of its land.

Nguyen Tien Minh has won a place in the quarter-finals of the Chinese Taipei Grand Prix Gold Open yesterday.