The Vietnamese government has chosen May 18 as National Science-Technology Day, which honors significant contributions in the field of science. Starting this year, May 18 will be National Science-Technology Day, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Tran Quoc Khanh announced at the opening of a science and technology week in the central city …

Germany coach Joachim Loew on Wednesday fine-tuned his 27-man squad ahead of their pre-World Cup training camp, with Borussia Moenchengladbach’s Christoph Kramer added and a trio put on stand-by. After an inexperienced Germany side was held to a goalless draw by Poland in Tuesday’s friendly, defensive midfielder Kramer, 23, comes …

Hosts Vietnam will take on Jordan at 5:15 pm on Wednesday in the opening match of group A of the AFC Women’s Asian Cup, with a target to rank fifth at the continental tournament and thus win a ticket to the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Canada. The match, …

Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians during a stone-throwing protest on Thursday marking the “Nakba”, the annual commemoration of what Palestinians term the catastrophe of their displacement when Israel was founded. Hospital officials said Muhammad Abu Thahr, 22, and Nadim Nuwara, 17, were both shot in the heart outside Israel’s …

A heavily-laden ferry capsized and sank in central Bangladesh on Thursday after being caught in a storm, leaving at least 10 people dead and hundreds more missing, police and officials said. Survivors of what is the latest in a string of ferry disasters to blight Bangladesh said the vessel had …

Especially interested in the 1954 Dien Bien Phu victory, a prominent triumph during Vietnam’s resistance war against the French colonialists, an elderly Australian man has spent five years in the northern province of Dien Bien to help needy locals. Born in 1954 in Queensland, Australia, Nev Tickner traveled to Vietnam …

A farmer in central Vietnam who lost his hand in a bomb explosion almost four decades ago is now an international ambassador working to raise awareness of the consequences of explosive remnants. He is Pham Quy Thi, 59, of Dien Sanh Village in Hai Lang District’s Hai Tho Commune in …

Police are investigating Justin Bieber over allegations he tried to steal a cell phone from a woman he thought had taken pictures of him with it, a newspaper said. The incident happened Monday at a miniature golf course in the San Fernando Valley area, the Los Angeles Times reported late …

Ho Chi Minh City health authorities have warned that the number of hand, foot, and mouth disease cases has sharply increased and that the disease may become an epidemic in the near future. Dr. Nguyen Huu Hung, deputy director of the HCMC Health Department’s Preventive Health Center, issued the warning …

Vietnam Coast Guard Command on Wednesday detected that China deployed two amphibious transport docks equipped with anti-air missiles to protect Chinese-run oil rig Haiyang 981. With water displacement of 17,000 tons, the two amphibious transport ships, #998 and #999, are equipped with eight surface-to-air missile launchers, a 76mm cannon, and …