VIETNAM TODAY

The Chief Economist of the WB forecast that Vietnam’s inflation rate would reach 8.2% by the end of 2013.

Two hundred outstanding young overseas Vietnamese from 24 countries worldwide has begun a string of 2013 Vietnam Summer Camp activities.

The General Department of Population and Family Planning and the Hanoi People’s Committee held a meeting on July 11 to mark World Population Day, themed “Adolescent Pregnancy”.

Vietnam and Poland have agreed to work closely in response to the emergence of new crime.

Fugitive NSA leaker Edward Snowden has requested meetings with rights lawyers and NGOs, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, at the Moscow airport where he has been holed up for three weeks, activist groups said Friday.

Norway will provide Vietnam with nearly VND10 billion (US$476,000) to conduct a four-year project to reduce the impacts of climate change on rice production.

The first international 4-star Swiss-Belhotel Lao Cai, under the management of Swiss-Belhotel International, was officially inaugurated on July 11.

The elderly residents of one Chinese county have endured invasion, civil war and famine, and many live in unheated concrete shacks on only a few dollars a day. But they are apparently among the longest-lived people on earth.

More than 1,000 workers from two companies in HCM City have stopped working to protest against poor policies from their managers.

Vietcombank and Agribank have made sudden further cuts to their deposit interest rates.

Vietnam's top badminton Nguyen Tien Minh breezed through to the quarter-final round of the Yonex OCBC US Open GPG badminton tournament on July 11 in California.

Scientists now have enough reference material to accurately restore the Dam Pagoda, a worshiping place of national importance during the Ly Dynasty (1009-1225) after two years of careful research at the site, according to the Department of Culture, Sports

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has called on the Mekong Delta provinces’ agricultural sector to promote large-scale production, change their growth model and strengthen production links.

Tens of thousands of workers across Brazil walked out of their jobs on Thursday as part of a "Day of Struggle," or nationwide strike to demand better working conditions and improved public services in the country.

The Vietnam-India Inter-Governmental Committee on Economic and Science-Technology Cooperation convened its 15 th meeting in New Delhi , India on July 11.

Consumer protection activities in recent years have progressed well, but more time is needed to ensure full coverage, a ministry official has said.

Many hotels in Vietnam have been put up for sale, one of the signs that there are fewer investors interested in this sector in Vietnam.

Authorities in Hanoi have announced that many prestigious taxi companies in the capital were also found with various violations.

A national hip hop contest will be held in the capital this weekend, bringing together more than 1,700 dancers from throughout the country, according to organisers.