Society

Al-Qaeda has announced the death of Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, its number three leader and Osama bin Laden's one-time top money man.

Vietnamese performers have given a special performance at the Vietnamese Cultural Centre in Paris, France.

A child's gratitude for the love of their parents and teachers must be turned into a real contribution to the country, said President Nguyen Minh Triet.

Residents in HCM City continue to smoke with little regard to others and no concern of the recent strict ban on public smoking.

German President Horst Koehler quit on Monday, creating fresh problems for Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The scenery along the Ho Chi Minh Trail is breathtaking and the atmosphere is peaceful and poetic, writes Laura Lam.

A new variety of rice suitable for fields that flood regularly during rainy season has been successfully grown in trials in Thua Thien-Hue.

A Vietnam court gave a death sentence to five Chinese people who transported nearly eight tons of cannabis resin to Vietnam.

The Vietnam Women’s Union launched a campaign for Smoke Free Homes in Hanoi, aimed at collecting 1 million signatures.

After the grasshopper appetizer, there were choices of grilled goat teat or raw cobra heart.

Tens of thousands gathered to protest in Turkey's biggest city Istanbul Monday following a deadly Israeli raid on a flotilla of aid-carrying ships bound for Gaza.

The State Bank in HCM City has announced that the city received an additional US$700 million from overseas Vietnamese in April and May.

Let us accept our history, sew the seeds of peace, and highlight the futile lose/lose proposition that is war, writes Susan Galleymore of the Veterans Today.

PM Dung has approved a master plan on preserving, restoring and promoting the values of the ancient town of Pho Hien in the northern province of Hung Yen by 2020.

A serious shortage of parking lots in the capital is pushing drivers to illegally park on streets and pavements, despite a doubling of fines.

Air New Zealand is planning to let some passengers send text messages and emails mid-flight by the end of the year.

HCM City has ratified an initial report on a project to build tunnel and overpass in Thu Duc intersection in HCM City at a cost of VND1.466 billion.

France's oil services company Technip officially handed over the Dung Quat Oil Refinery to Binh Son Petrochemical Refinery Company.

Finance chiefs of the world's leading economies are likely to deliver a strong endorsement of Europe's efforts to resolve its debt crisis.