Society

The Vietnamese government will support and create favourable conditions for German businesses, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

Mang Lang, one of the oldest churches in Vietnam, is also home to the first book written in Vietnam’s modern script.

The Vietnam Milk Joint Stock Company has been licensed to buy a 19.3 percent stake of the New Zealand-based Miraka Ltd company.

Vietnamese authorities said they were moving to hunt down two invaders from the United States - red-eared slider turtles and red swamp crayfish.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Vietnam International Bank have completed arrangements for a strategic partnership.

The Ministry of Education and Training has decided to enhance punishments on illegal acts in establishment of educational institutes.

Having two wives has become an increasingly popular trend for Co Tu people in But Tua Village, Quang Nam Province.

A cartoon on a legendary Emperor, who founded Thang Long capital, now Hanoi, is scheduled to air on September 17.

In the upcoming 1,000th Thang Long-Hanoi Cup, the Vietnamese team will compete with four foreign football teams.

The Dong Nai Tax Agency has ordered British American Tobacco - Vinataba to pay over VND263 billion worth of overdue taxes from 2005-2008.

Indian police battled stone-throwing rioters who went on the rampage in Kashmir, leaving 14 people dead.

The Ministry of Transport has approved toll collection for the Can Tho Bridge spanning the Hau River to connect Can Tho City and Vinh Long Province.

The VND1 trillion (US$50 million) plan to grow organic vegetables that was approved by the Hanoi People's Committee last May is likely to fall behind schedule.

Vietnam Association of seafood exporters and producers said the US Department of Commerce had issued a decision on anti-dumping tax over catfish imported from Vietnam.

Passage to Vietnam is a new complex of eco-tourism and craft villages in the south and a must-see for tourists.

The first working day of the 34th meeting of the National Assembly Standing Committee focused on the allocation of the State budget for investment.

Fifteen people died in a plane crash in Venezuela, but 36 others miraculously survived after the pilot alerted air traffic control.

A delegation from the Vietnamese Ministry of Defence has paid a two day visit to Cambodia to discuss measures to boost bilateral security and defence co-operation.

Experts have called on authorities to provide strong, clear conditions, not merely open offers for foreign investors, before granting FDI licences.