More than 170 countries Monday adopted what World Health Organisation chief Margaret Chan called a "game-changing" global pact to combat the illegal tobacco trade.
Greece's unrelenting debt drama tops the agenda when Eurozone finance ministers discuss whether Athens has met conditions set by its international creditors.
Not only the students studying at domestic universities, but the ones graduating from foreign schools also find it difficult to get the jobs in the banking and finance sector nowadays.
The VASEP estimates that with the current difficulties in the seafood export industry, their earlier target of $6.5 billion annual turnover will not be met.
The impact of proposed hydropower plants on the eco-system of Cat Tien National Park in southern Dong Nai Province is concerning scientists and the public.
The spontaneous migration of ethic groups indigenous to the mountainous area in the northern part of Viet Nam down to the Central Highlands was on the upward trend and induced a number of social issues.
Vietnam's complex higher education system needs to be better integrated in order to improve training quality, a foreign education expert has suggested.
A strong earthquake struck an underdeveloped mining region in northern Myanmar, collapsing a bridge and a gold mine, damaging ancient Buddhist pagodas and leaving as many as 12 people feared dead.
Nha Trang's sun, sand and sea lured me away from other inland attractions when I came to the central coastal city for my honeymoon a couple of years ago.
A communication campaign on preventing and stopping human trafficking was launched in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai on November 10 to raise public awareness of the issue.
According to a survey conducted by the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor on around 2,000 workers, most complained that their basic salary was insufficient to even cover minimum monthly living expenses.
The FBI investigation that led to the discovery of CIA Director David Petraeus' affair with author Paula Broadwell was sparked by "suspicious emails" that initially did not contain any connection to Petraeus, U.S. law enforcement and security officials told Reuters.