VIETNAM TODAY

Ethnic groups across the country will gather for a spring festival from today to Friday to highlight their cultural identities.

Traffic jams returned to the streets of Hanoi as a huge influx of people returned to work after a nine-day-long Tet holiday.

Silicon Valley's long crusade to break open doors to America for foreigners with key technology skills hinges on a political battle in Washington over broader immigration reform.

Vietnam has launched two communications satellites into orbit and hopes to control them without foreign assistance by March 2013.

Foot and mouth disease has broken out at a cow farm in Tho village, Song Hinh district of the south-central province of Phu Yen.

For the first time since the 1990s, sales of the 100 biggest arms dealers declined in 2011, a think tank said.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Russia Pham Xuan Son conferred Vietnam’s Friendship Order on Nikolai Kolesnik at a ceremony in Moscow.

Members of the Pakistani Shiite Hazara community threatened to hold protests if the government did not arrest the people responsible for the bombing in a southwestern city.

This year’s nine-day Lunar New Year holiday has helped drive large numbers of local and foreign visitors to tourist destinations across the country, raising hopes of a successful year for the tourism industry.

Police in northern Nigeria say gunmen have kidnapped seven foreign workers from a construction company.

Crowds of people from all corners of the country and abroad have flocked to the historic Ba Dinh Square in Hanoi and paid tribute to President Ho Chi Minh at his mausoleum during the traditional Lunar New Year festival.

Thousands of Russian emergency workers went out on Saturday to clear up the damage from a meteor that exploded over the Ural mountains, damaging buildings, shattering windows and showering people with broken glass.

The famous wooden sandals of Yen Xa Village in Hanoi is being threatened in the face of tough competition.

Defence Ministry and HCM City leaders have accompanied State President Truong Tan Sang on his visit to cadres and soldiers of the Saigon New Port Company.

The World Health Organisation on Saturday urged countries to be vigilant over the spread of a potentially fatal SARS-like virus after a new case in Britain brought the global number to 12.

In recent years, the time immediately following Tet has been very lucrative for fortunetellers.

The president of the WB warned the world's leading economic powers that global warming is a real risk to the world economy.

Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan attended Le Tich Dien or the Ceremonial Ploughing Festival hosted by the Ha Nam provincial People’s Committee on February 16.

G20 nations declared on Saturday that there would be no “currency war”, as finance ministers and central bankers deferred plans to set new debt-cutting targets.