Jane Fonda has successfully combined Oscar-winning Hollywood celebrity and firebrand political activism with a fitness video empire.

Designer Do Trinh Hoai Nam has been invited to open the Ao Dai Festival in the US with the ao dai inspired by the legendary Mother Au Co.

The Vietnam Railways Corporation announced that the operating hours of Thong Nhat train service has been adjusted starting May 15th to meet tourists' demand.

 Many waitresses at a bar in Ho Chi Minh City were found to dress in a provocative way while dancing to serve a group of South Korean men.

 The Ministry of Planning and Investment has rejected the northern province of Ha Giang’s proposal to build a new administrative centre.

 A driver was startled when a small child suddenly ran out onto the highway in Nghe An Province. 

 A paragliding festival is to take place from May 18 to 20 on Khau Pha Mountain Pass in Mu Cang Chai district in northwestern Yen Bai province.

 Facebook has confirmed its chief executive will meet leading members of the European Parliament to discuss privacy concerns in Brussels.

Vietnamese farm produce promoted in Japan, Quang Ninh looks to optimise sea tourism potential, Dong Nai draws nearly 690 million USD in foreign investment, Italian coffee producers highly evaluate Vietnamese coffee beans

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese and foreign convenience stores are rushing to open more shops, use more technologies and provide more services in the retail market.

 Malaysian police have searched the home of ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak, one week after he lost the national election.

BIP and Jiangshu are the next teams advancing to the semi-finals of the VTV9 Binh Dien International Women’s Volleyball Tournament, currently underway in Quang Nam Province.

 Some 20 tonnes of old books will be available at the Hanoi May Old Book Fair at the Viet Nam Exhibition Centre for Culture and Arts.

As a way of respect, many people in HCM City call the men who volunteer to protect them from neighbourhood thieves "knights of the street", an expression that was first used in Binh Duong Province.

 The National Assembly Standing Committee yesterday agreed to introduce a draft law on amending 13 planning-related laws to the agenda of next week’s National Assembly plenary meeting.

 FPT Software has asked the Ministry of Transport and relevant sectors for permission to operate self-driving autos in hi-tech zones and software parks nationwide on an experimental basis.

 Profit-taking intensified during Wednesday afternoon trading, dragging shares down on both national stock exchanges and making market liquidity plunge.

MSCI, a global leading provider of research-based indexes and analytics, has eyes for Vietnamese shares when it added five local shares to its MSCI Frontier Markets Small Cap Index.

Grab’s acquisition of Uber could have violated the Competition Law, said officials of the Viet Nam Competition Authority (VCA) under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, adding that they might begin an official investigation.

Vietnam will send more officers, especially females, to participate in the UN peacekeeping operations, said Deputy Defence Minister Sen. Lieut. Gen. Nguyen Chi Vinh. 

A tourism culture week is scheduled to take place in Bac Ha district in the northwestern province of Lao Cai from June 1-9, under the theme “Colours of the White Highland”.

 India’s Institute of Social Sciences inaugurated its Centre for Vietnam Studies on May 15 in New Delhi.

About 600 out of 2,500 old apartment buildings in Vietnam are in dangerous or seriously dilapidated conditions, making up some 25 percent of the total number of old buildings, according to the Construction Ministry. 

The US Air Force Academy is scheduled to send a delegation of students to Vietnam and several other Southeast Asian nations this summer for information, language and cultural exchanges with these countries. 

 Elder son Lachlan Murdoch has been named as the heir to Rupert Murdoch's business empire.