Besides the industrial manufacturing sector as a key investment area, the retail sector in the southern province of Binh Duong has emerged as a new magnet for foreign companies.

Australian scientists from University of Sydney on Saturday announced they have developed a vaccine to help halt the progression of Alzheimer's disease of humans in a joint race.

Vietnamese rice traders are growing more concerned about a lack of export contracts for next year as few deals have been clinched with importers, said a leading food trader at a meeting on Monday.

Viet Nam’s first-ever professional basketball team is aiming high when it will compete for the first time in the ASEAN Basketball League (ABL) competition in January.

State-owned firms’ divestments for banking sector have generated industry insiders’ diverse sentiments.

The winner of the annual Vietnamese children’s singing contest Do Re Mi 2011, eight-year-old Do Tri Dung, will perform in Melbourne, Australia, alongside Australian artists in a music gala to celebrate the holiday season.

Trieu Thi Ha, 19, an ethnic Nung girl from the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang, has become Miss Ethnic Vietnam 2011.

Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, her compatriot Leymah Gbowee and Yemen's women's rights activist Tawakkul Karman collected the 2011 Nobel peace prize here on Saturday.

Korean and Vietnamese speaking contest launched in HCM City; National Young Fine Arts Festival concludes; Writers Association celebrates anniversary; Prizes for poster contest announced; Int'l artists to feature Vietnam FAME festival  

The Government will soon release a decree to tighten management and increase economic effectiveness of economic zones (EZ), industrial zones (IZ) and industrial clusters (IC), a senior official has said.

The global economy will recover slowly though growth will accelerate from this year’s rate, while Viet Nam’s export performance will improve, analysts have said.

Mui Dinh (Dinh Cape) is 40km south of Phan Rang City in the central province of Ninh Thuan and 10 km from the popular Ca Na beach.

Doctors in Can Tho City General Hospital wrongly removed both the kidneys of a 37-year-old woman patient on December 6 when only her left kidney needed to be surgically removed. 

Currently Vietnam has seven doctors per 10,000 people, becoming one of the lowest ratios of doctor, patients in the world as a result of many short-comings in training, education and remuneration of doctors.

‘Tran Thi Thu Ha – Twenty Years In Art’ opened at Tu Do Gallery December 10, marking 20 years of artist Ha, the owner of the gallery.

Farmers in Luc Ngan district of Bac Giang province these days are busy working at their litchi orchards, picking up leaves of litchi trees for sale.

Vietnamese mobile phone market flourishes; Vietnamobile upgrades 3G plans at same price; VNPT, Marine Police to protect telecom cables; Viettel offers unlimited internet download service; Mobifone provides new BlackBerry packages

The Ministry of Planning and Investment is proposing a temporary halt in the establishment of new economic groups to focus on completing the legal framework and implementing restructuring plans for those that already exist.

A video-installation titled Green Earth has won first prize for artist Le Tran Hau Anh at the Viet Nam National Youth Fine Arts Festival.

Nguyen Thi Hong has never considered herself to be a disabled person, though the weightlifter grew up with paralysis in her legs. Her optimistic outlook on life has won her a ‘ticket’ to compete in the 2012 Paralympics in London.

The Govern-ment’s Decree 54 regulated that teachers would have seniority allowance starting the beginning of last September, however, until now they have not received the benefit.

A prenatal and newborn-screening network will be expanded throughout the country to reach the target of serving 30 per cent of newborn babies and 15 per cent of pregnant women by 2015, according to Department of Population and Family Planning.

Judoka Van Ngoc Tu has officially won a ticket to compete at the London Olympics next August, according to the International Judo Federation (IJF). 

Two Venezuelan musicians, Maurice Reyna and Yoko Yoshizawa, will perform in Vietnam from December 12-19.

Head of the U.S. delegation to the 17th Conference of Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework of Climate Change Conventions (UNFCCC) indicated on Thursday that Washington supports the European Union's roadmap