Society

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.

Celebrating and preparing for the future of crafts is an economic necessity for many villagers Vietnam.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism has invited tourism agencies, hoteliers and travel firms to join a marketing program in Germany, Belgium and France.

After the Vietnamese Foreign Affairs Ministry asked Google to correct errors on Google Maps this March, part of the border between Vietnam and China has been corrected.  

Domestic and foreign investors are being called for medicine production paving the way for Vietnam’s drug production sector development

Vietnam has initiated 63 projects in Cambodia, with a total investment of US$900 million, making Vietnam Cambodia’s third largest investor.

Supermodel Naomi Campbell told a court how she received a pouch of rough diamonds came from Liberia's ex-president Charles Taylor, in the dock for war crimes.

Official figures in South Korea show there were 7,249 marriages between South Koreans and Vietnamese women last year.

Vietnam demands that China cease activities that violate Vietnam’s sovereignty and its sovereign rights in the East Sea.