VIETNAM TODAY

Microsoft joined Facebook and Apple on the list of US technology titans targeted in recent cyberattacks.

A 200 million USD credit to help improve safe water supply and sanitation in the Red River delta was signed by the WB in Vietnam and the State Bank of Vietnam in Hanoi.

Japanese hotel chain, Toyoko Inn, introduced its ambitious plan to build 100 starred hotels in Vietnam at a seminar in Hanoi on February 22.

An independent anti-corruption agency would apply bold measures to deal with corruption, a UNDP expert advised.

In Los Angeles, the land of paparazzi, it turns out that you, too, can be hot enough to draw a crowd. For a price, of course.

Two local people in Quang Nam province’s Dai Loc district have died of Streptococcus suis – a type of bacteria that causes clinical diseases in pigs, local doctors have confirmed.

China's environment ministry has acknowledged the existence of "cancer villages", several years after widespread speculation first began that polluted areas were seeing a higher incidence of the disease.

Ethnic minority children taught in both their native language and Vietnamese are more active and confident and fare better in educational settings, study found.

HCM City is studying to apply a Certificate of Entitlement program (COE) in an attempt to limit private car ownership.

The Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam has rejected the rumour that its Chairman of Board of Directors Tran Bac Ha was arrested.

The capital city of Hanoi will host the 19th ASEAN Economic Ministers (AEM) Retreat and Related Meetings from March 7-9.

The government has approved a plan to launch a small satellite into orbit, one official said.

A day after two bicycle bombs killed 14 people and wounded more than 100, investigators into India's worst bombing in more than a year searched Friday for possible links to anger over the execution of a Muslim militant.

The PM has approved a master plan for economic restructuring between 2013 and 2020, which prioritises sustainable development.

A US delegation led by Senator Mary Landrieu paid an official visit to Vietnam from February 18-21.

Eighty-two doctoral laureate steles under the early Le, Mac and late Le dynasties in Hanoi’s Van Mieu will get UNESCO’s Global Memory of the World Programme’s certificate.

Vietnam aims to strengthen the brand of its tourism sector in order to attract more foreign tourists.

Iran has begun installing advanced centrifuges at its main uranium enrichment plant, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said, a defiant step that will worry Western powers.

Two Vietnamese rice specialists may be fined for representing a Chinese person to lease land for piloting the growth of a new rice variety in Long An Province.