Society

People along the Gulf Coast have spent weeks living with uncertainty, wondering where and when a huge slick of oil might come ashore.

Two accomplices who participated in the unconscionable torture of a 14-year-old boy were arrested on May 4.

The Talent Converging Program 2010 is calling all those with high will-power and passion, encouraging them to try to make their dreams come true.

The Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations presented the insignia “For Peace and Friendship among Nations” to former Caracas guerrilla Noel Quintero of Venezuela.

A Pakistani-American man was charged with international terrorism in the attempted car bombing of New York's Times Square.

The Government’s roles are to protect good health for its people and to particularly fight back TB disease, said Deputy PM Nhan.

President Nguyen Minh Triet welcomed voters of HCM City’s precincts 1 and 2 for their opinions given to law building during his meeting on May 4.

Thailand's anti-government protesters agreed Tuesday to try to settle their differences with the government to prevent more bloodshed.

As painstaking and physically demanding as it is to make bricks, most brickmakers were found to be women in one village.

46 Vietnamese doctors and nurses began a two-day mission in Cambodia to provide eye checks-up and surgeries to poor patients.

Vietnam’s project on “Building continuous ceramic brick four-chamber kilns with rice husk gasification technology” has won the Energy Globe Awards 2009.

Locals and authorities uncovered a boy who underwent inhumane, horrifying and barbaric torture at the hands of his boss.

The Goethe Institute will display two new publications on Vietnam’s relics at the An Dinh palace in the former imperial city of Hue.

Buddhist Cultural Week aims to spread awareness of the country’s largest religion with a series of exhibitions and seminars on literature, history and culture.

Representatives of the nation's seven mobile service providers offered comments on a draft circular that would regulate customer promotions in the telecommunications sector.

Police arrested a Pakistan-born suspect trying to board a plane to Dubai after a failed Times Square bomb plot.

Japanese officials were in Hanoi to promote Japanese infrastructure projects, such as the construction of nuclear power plants and high-speed rail systems.

Returning home after living abroad for over three years was an overwhelming and thought provoking experience, writes David Cornish.

Hanoi will use VND 500 billion (US $26 million) from the local budget to stabilize prices of prime commodities and rein in inflation.