Society

A Libyan plane disintegrated on landing at Tripoli airport, killing 103 people but leaving a boy as the sole miracle survivor.

Vietnam will send its aquaculture and marine specialists to Namibia under a tripartite agreement between the two countries and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.

Hanoi will offer additional 4,000 high-quality hotel rooms this year to serve the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi and National Tourism Year 2010.

Economic growth and inflation would become topics of focus during the upcoming session of the National Assembly, said an official.

Seven children and a teacher were hacked to death with a cleaver in an attack at a kindergarten in northern China on Wednesday.

President Nguyen Minh Triet began a two-day visit to Kalmykia on May 11 at the invitation of Kalmyk President Kirsan Iliumzhinov.

Soc Trang Province plans to spend VND60 billion this year to bring clean water to more than 20,000 poor Khmer households.

Authorities are looking forward to turning Hue's Buddhist culture into an attractive tourism resource.

Global Witness claims Singapore is expanding its coastline with irresponsibly dredged sand from Cambodia.

A Vietnamese week will take place in Cuba and Mexico from May 21 to June 5, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

The Vietnamese delegation attended the 5th Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts and Islands in France with the participation of over 700 delegates from 80 countries.

David Cameron finally took office as British premier Tuesday, ending his Conservative party's 13 years in opposition

A court upheld jail terms for two men convicted of “working to overthrow the people’s administration” and cut another defendant’s sentence after his appeal for clemency.

The German football club Eintracht Frankfurt arrived in Hanoi on May 11 to prepare for a friendly against the Vietnamese National squad.

Climate change could make much of the world too hot for human habitation within just three centuries, research released Tuesday showed.

The World Tourism Organisation will assist Vietnam in mulling policies and long-term plans for tourism development and training human resources.

The HCM City Department of transport has announced a series of measures designed to tackle the metropolis’ worsening traffic congestion through the end of this year.

The 4th ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting with the theme “Strengthening ASEAN defence cooperation for a region of stability and development” opened in Hanoi.

Vietnam gives a top priority to building a society where all nationalities are equal, unite, respect and help one another to co-develop, the Party chief has said.