A Frenchman who lost his limbs braved currents to swim from Papua New Guinea to Indonesia, in the first stretch of a mission to swim between five continents.

Hundreds of households in the new resettlement areas built by hydropower plant investors in Quang Nam Province face great difficulties.

It's been hundreds of years since the Tasmanian devil last lived on the Australian mainland but a pioneering group is being bred for survival.

A collection of woodblocks printed with Buddhist Sutras was officially listed as world heritage by UNESCO on May 16.

Vietnam has 1,700 vocational training schools which annually provide more than 1.6 million workers but the market is still running short of skilled labourers.

Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai ordered the Ministry of Industry and Trade to make the schedule to use bio-fuel compulsorily by next year.

Vietnam is seriously lacking manpower in some professions, while it has many redundant workers in other fields.