Society

Some children in Phu Yen have no summer holiday, as they have to help their parents and are left with nowhere to play.

It took 3 fire trucks and firefighters had to break into one home to extinguish a vicious blaze which sparked yesterday at 12.40 pm.

ASEAN FMs reached agreement on numerous important issues at the 43rd ASEAN Ministerial Meeting in Hanoi.

The U.N. refugee agency has praised Vietnam for its plan to grant citizenship to 2,357 people who fled Cambodia\'s genocide under Pol Pot over three decades ago.

The general public will be given priority for tickets for the 2012 London Olympics and everything possible will be done to fill stadiums, the chief organiser said.

About 450 tonnes of garbage is littered across the roads of Ha Tinh City, causing major pollution problems.

The 43rd ASEAN Ministerial Meeting (AMM-43) opened in Hanoi on July 20 in the presence of Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

A stroke of good luck brought a paralysed and poverty-stricken man 1 billion Vietnam dong ($51,398).

Vietnam wants to expand cooperation with organizations on drug prevention and fight to help combat narcotics smuggling and use, stated Deputy PM Truong Vinh Trong.

Vietnamese Consul-General to Hong Kong and Macau visited 10 Vietnamese fishermen who were victims of a ship sinking by typhoon Conson.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai sought to convince an international conference in Kabul that his government could assume full leadership by 2014.

The Central Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Prevention and Control met on July 20 to discuss measures to cope with this year’s second storm.

Discussion of several proposed bills and ordinance amendments will be continued at the National Assembly Standing Committee meeting.

Tham Nam Caves have wowed visitors who make the journey with its magnificent features and stunning sights.

Even while on a diplomatic mission to Vietnam and other Asian countries, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton finds time to be a nervous mother.

Mannai Holidays hosted for the first time a destination presentation to promote tourism to Vietnam to travel industry’s professionals.

The fourth Meeting of the ASEAN Political and Security Community Council and the Meeting of the Commission for the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapons Free Zone took place in Hanoi.

The two nations have exchanged documents ratifying an agreement on the extradition of their prisoners and cooperation in the execution of criminal court rulings

The authorities of Thai Nguyen Province has given a woman lacking formal knowledge of medicine a green light to continue her practice.