The Double Five Festival (Doan Ngo) on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month (which falls on June 23 this year) is approaching. This marks the transition from spring to summer, traditionally a time when there is an outbreak of epidemics.

Up to 50% of university lecturers in Vietnam do not have post-graduate degrees.

The seafood industry should soon work with trade authorities to remove raw seafood for processing from the list of goods requiring an automatic import licence, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Thanh Bien has said.

More and more international brands are seeking the way to penetrate the Vietnamese market through franchising contracts. Analysts believe that 2012 would be another bustling year for franchising deals.

Two ports in HCM City that cost VND765 billion (US$36.6 million) to build have been unused for several years because they lack key access roads.

The telecom market will be knocked into shape if a sound telecom services rate calculation method is in place.

Revolutionary poet To Huu was born on October 4, 1920 in the imperial capital city of Hue as Nguyen Kim Thanh. Despite being poor, his family was quite artistic.

China on Saturday sent three astronauts, including its first female astronaut Liu Yang, into space for the nation's manned space docking mission.

After spending more than 15 months orbiting Earth on a mystery mission, the U.S. Air Force's X- 37B unmanned, reusable space plane finally returned to the ground on Saturday.

Y replaces Phung in U-20 standings; Minh out of Indonesia Open; VN volleyballers in last sixteen; Phuoc wins silver in swimming; National U22 footballers train in Thailand; U13 Vietnam win bronze at AFC U13 women’s champs

“Dung Dot” screened at Asia Film Festival 2012; Lao students attend beauty contest in Hue; Vietnamese-born blind woman impresses US Master Chef jury; 2 illegal TV channels in Binh Dinh stop operation; Ancient toilet found in Vietnam

Over 100 football bettors detained in raid; Get-together for Vietnamese intellectuals in Japan; Urbanization rate set at 38 percent by 2015; 11 Vietnamese women cheated in Macau; HCMC to use $18 mln water pump to ease flooding

Myanmar parliamentary chief to visit Vietnam; Corruption remains serious: Deputy PM Phuc; Vietnam seeks further UNESCO assistance; Former Indonesian ambassador to Vietnam honoured; Vietnam, Morocco sign investment pact

While coral reefs are getting exhausted in many coastal provinces in the central region, the Ran Trao coral reefs have been safe thanks to the community’s special protection.

Training centres for university entrance exams, in the past crowded with students as testing time neared, have been losing ground to online courses.

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.

VietNamNet Bridge – Ban Pho commune in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai province is well-known for brewing maize alcohol, which has a special taste.

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

The continued interest rate reductions are thought to put a hard pressure on the dong/dollar exchange rate. However, economists do not think that the dong would depreciate sharply this year.

VietNamNet Bridge – In HCM City, many high-tension stations have become restaurants, construction material warehouses, parking lots, ornamental gardens, etc.