VIETNAM TODAY

Primary schools in HCM City face overcrowding because of the large number of children born in the lucky "Year of the Pig" (2007).

The island district of Van Don in northern province of Quang Ninh has set its sights on attracting 620,000 tourists to the area this year and become a hub for eco-sea tourism in the north.

Saigon Petrol’s gas prices will be cut by VND24,000 per 12-kg cylinder, the biggest decrease so far this year, said a firm official.

The number of foreign women tourists visiting India has dropped by 35 percent in the past three months following a spate of sex attacks that have made global headlines, a new survey has found.

Stories on how sappers defuse large unexploded bombs left over from the war and how the life goes on for wives having their sapper husbands killed while duty have touched the hearts of participants at an exchange programme held

Police said many emails had been sent from an email address registered in China with the aim of sending viruses to steal information about Vietnamese state officials.

A lottery company in An Giang Province has refused to pay a local man who won VND 100 million because his ticket was torn.

China , Laos , Myanmar and Thailand have announced that they will conduct a two-month joint campaign against drug-related crimes on the Mekong River , which will start on April 20.

The price of rice continued declining during the first quarter of this year, creating problems for rice exporters.

The Western Australian Wheelchair for Kids charity organization has said it will send 160 wheelchairs to children suffering from the effects of Agent Orange in Vietnam.

Hundreds of millions of tech-savvy young people have turned to a wave of smartphone-based messaging apps.

President Truong Tan Sang is paying a working visit to the Mekong delta to inspect its efforts to cope with rising sea level.

Two Shanghai men have died from a lesser-known type of bird flu in the first known human deaths from the strain, and Chinese authorities said Sunday that it wasn't clear how they were infected, but that there was no

Vietnam has presented a report on claiming its territorial waters in the East Sea as well as legal documents proving its sovereignty over specific areas in the East Sea.

Forrest Fenn was creating a bounty, and says his goal was to make sure it was "valuable enough to entice searchers."

Many real estate companies in HCM City have been switching to other temporary businesses to overcome the financial difficulties.

New saline-resistant rice varieties have helped farmers in coastal areas in the Mekong Delta become more efficient and earn higher profits.

Prospects for a law to create a pathway to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants brightened on Saturday after major business and labor groups reached an agreement on a guest-worker program, a source familiar with the deal said.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Malaysia and the Malaysian Foreign Ministry jointly held a ceremony in Kuala Lumpur on March 29 to celebrate the 40 th anniversary of the two countries’ diplomatic ties.