Foreigners who are eligible for residency in Vietnam can look forward to a shorter processing time for residency permit applications.

President Truong Tan Sang held a working session with the leaders of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City Law Universities in Hanoi on Jan. 30, on measures to improve the quality of human resource training and achieve judicial reform.

The programme of football for society was launched in Hanoi on January 30, in the presence of Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) President Nguyen Trong Hy and Barcelona FC’s representative Marce Xavi.

Body of drowned teenager found; Overseas Vietnamese celebrate Tet in Paris; Businessman indicted for embezzling over 4,000 monitors; Food inspections tightened in schools

Top Vietnamese chess player Le Quang Liem defeated his Israeli rival Tamir Nabaty (Elo 2563) on January 30 in the seven round of the 2012 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival, which is taking place in the UK.

VietNamNet Bridge – Money collected from fire violation fines is expected to enhance the country's firefighting capacity, which is now far below demand, according to major general Do Van Son, director of the Department for Firefighting

Defiant Occupy D.C. protesters on Monday vowed to continue with their encampment in the U.S. capital as the deadline for decampment passed. The U.S. National Park Service last week ordered protesters at two encampment sites

VietNamNet Bridge – A misspelling of London's famous Big Ben captured the hearts of judges and lifted eight-year-old Nguyen Song Anh to the first prize in the British Council's Young Learner's Art Competition.

VietNamNet Bridge – The ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) gained a majority of the votes in the country’s Senate elections, receiving up to 77.81 percent,

Africa will target the establishment of a continental free trade area by 2017, said a document issued here at the closing of the 18th summit of the African Union (AU) on Tuesday.

At least 123 people were injured in an earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter on Monday which shook the southern Peruvian department of Ica, the National Civil Defense Institute (Indeci) said.

Vietnamese men’s futsal team will play in Group A with Malaysia, Cambodia, Myanmar and the Philippines at the 2012 AFF Futsal Championship, scheduled to take place in Bangkok, Thailand, from April 17-22.

Economists, who believe that the pressure for Vietnam to devaluate the dong to boost exports is not big in 2012, and think that the dollar price would increase by four percent in the year.

The Arab League (AL) will hold a foreign ministers' meeting in Cairo on Sunday to discuss the worsening situation in Syria, the AL's deputy chief says.

Many people have got surprised when hearing that Le Ba Khanh Trinh, who won the gold medal at the mathematics Olympiad and the special prize, simply works as a mathematics lecturer at a university in HCM City.

The European Union (EU) leaders on Monday endorsed the latest restrictive measures against Iran.

In 2012, telecom and Internet service providers would focus on developing content services and target the sustainable development instead of striving to develop in quantity.

Liam Neeson's latest vehicle "The Grey" led a pack of three debuts as they opened among the top 10 most-popular films in North America over the weekend, all with impressive performances.

President Truong Tan Sang paid a New Year visit to Hanoi Municipal Police on January 30, the first working day of the New Year of the Dragon.

VIR talks with Victoria Kwakwa, World Bank country director for Vietnam, to see if the country can hope for some winds of change in 2012.