VIETNAM TODAY

World powers and Iran resume nuclear crisis talks amid fears that failure on this occasion may lead to a permanent breakdown and push the sides ever closer to the use of force.

Many young Vietnamese people are choosing to work freelance and are finding it a way of earning more than salary jobs.

Many bookstores in HCM City have become ideal places for students to read books without having to pay for books.

Tourists to the ancient capital of Hue will have the chance to enjoy the real life of the old city rather than just viewing relics or landscape as they usually do.

A meeting was held in Quang Binh province to mark the 35th anniversary of the signing of Vietnam-Lao Friendship and Cooperation Treaty and the 50th anniversary of their diplomatic ties.

Vietnam has been rated as the second happiest nation in the world thanks to its citizens’ high level of life satisfaction, high life expectancy, and environmental sustainability.

The euro soared in early Asian trade after Greece's two pro-bailout parties clinched enough votes to form a government.

Multiple suicide attacks on churches in Nigeria and subsequent rioting by Christian youths killed at least 36 people, officials said.

China's latest space mission is its most ambitious yet and shows Beijing's resolve to increase its technological capabilities and bridge the gap with the United States and Russia, experts say.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Japan held a meeting with Vietnamese intellectuals in Japan on June 16 to seek their cooperation in boosting scientific and technological ties between the two countries.

Vietnam will strive to achieve an urbanisation rate of 38 percent with 870 urban areas by 2015, if the Government approves a draft national urban development programme from now until 2020 suggested by the Ministry of Construction.

Greeks angered by austerity took to the polls on Sunday for an election that could decide their future in the eurozone amid unprecedented external pressure not to vote for a radical leftist party.

Provinces in the Mekong Delta are taking steps and implementing measures to deal with flooding in the coming months, and minimise loss of human lives and property.

The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho is upgrading its urban infrastructure under a 90.3 million USD project funded by the World Bank (WB)’s loans.

When the Watergate complex was built in the 1960s, it was just a group of buildings. Then, 40 years ago Sunday, police in Washington arrested five men breaking into the office

Toilet walls in bus stations and universities are ideal places for gays and prostitute advertising their services.

Egyptians voted on Saturday in a run-off presidential election pitting an Islamist against Hosni Mubarak's last premier as the military rulers entered a showdown with the Islamists by disbanding parliament.

Most cartoons shown on television are foreign-made, with few of them produced by local companies because of a lack of funds.

The number of applications for the 2012 university and college entrance examinations has reduced by 7.7%, according to the MoET.