Rice farming area, production and export value have increased sharply year-on-year, but next year’s performance is predicted to face many difficulties due to the impact of flooding, experts said at a seminar on Friday.

U.S. forces are moving out of Iraq "at a high rate of speed," and most troops are scheduled to leave the country by mid-December, a senior U.S. military official said Thursday.

Government debts are high on the agenda at the National Assembly 2011 second session, currently underway in Hanoi.

A series of jazz concerts by the Smietana Quartet from Poland will be held in Ha Noi and HCM City to celebrate Polish Independence Day which falls on November 11.

The real estate sale-off should is not a big problem to the national economy at all, and no need to worry about the fate of banks and real estate developers, said Professor Dang Hung Vo, former Deputy Minister of MONRE

After a lengthy round of closing arguments delivered Thursday by both sides over the involuntary manslaughter trial against Michael Jackon's personal physician, the fate of the cardiologist now rests in the hands of the panelists.

Under Decision 55/2011/QD-TTg dated mid October 2011 the state will have controlling stake in five firms.

VietNamNet Bridge - National Assembly (NA) deputies on November 2 discussed the bill on higher education and the law and ordinance building program of the new congress.

VietNamNet Bridge – Buses follow one another, making ‘chains’ of hundreds of meters long on the street.

Smoking causes 40,000 deaths, costs $1 bln; Hanoi reviews five years of corruption prevention and control; USAID to help Vietnam respond to HIV/AIDS epidemic; HCM City truck ban eases traffic; Company ordered to treat exhaust fumes

A number of unique rituals and customs are still practiced at a traditional Cham ethnic wedding ceremony as seen in the following photographs.

Thousands of protesters took to the streets in the West Coast city of Oakland and forced its port to shut down Wednesday in a general strike called by the Occupy Oakland group.

Local people have been considered as criminals who destroy forests and ravage the environment. But, a question should be raised that why they have to do that.

There exists a school, where there is only one student. Another school only gathers women of ethnic minorities. Especially, a school has been opened where people learn the sense of shame. These are the strangest schools in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Chess Federation has signed a 4-year sponsor contract for Vietnam’s two top chess great masters – Le Quang Liem and Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son.

The HCMC Tourism Association has continued to petition Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) and the central bank to allow travel agencies to enjoy commercial term interest rates from deposits instead of the low rate for call deposits.

Amazon on Thursday launched an e-book lending service for owners of its Kindle devices, letting them borrow one digital book per month with no due date.

The State Bank of Vietnam has continuously raised the interbank dollar price, making the dong lose 0.85 percent of its value in October alone.

Iran's state-run satellite Press TV reported Thursday that Iran will reveal some documents about the " U.S. anti-Tehran terror plots."