VIETNAM TODAY

The young man swings the sodden red garment around his head and thrashes it against the flogging stone before it is spun and hung out to dry in the fierce Indian sun.

Students at several university halls of residence have devised creative ways of earning a living.

A secret war bunker used by leaders of the Vietnam People's Army between 1965-75 has been opened to the public for the first time.

Amid economic difficulties and securities market slump, many owners of securities firms have been trying to sell their companies.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the United Nation Development Programme on December 20 launched the project to enhance the international integration capacity of Vietnam to 2020.

A poll released of nearly 150,000 people says seven of the world's 10 countries with the most upbeat attitudes are in Latin America.

Despite competing unsuccessfully in AFF Suzuki Cup 2012, Vietnam continues to take the leading position in the Southeast Asian region, announced FIFA.

The commercial banking system expects to see credit grow by 6 percent this year, said Saigon Economic Times in its recent report.

Touring city sites is an appealing attraction for visitors to many countries, however, Hanoi has been accused of having little to offer.

Facing student shortages, private education institutes have express their disagreement with government policies.

Israel has approved plans for the construction of more than 500 homes in the southern West Bank in the first step towards creating a new settlement city, a local settler council said Thursday.

Nine Vietnamese people died and six were injured when their bus was upturned in Laos on December 19.

Vietnam Post has now officially separated from the Vietnam Post and Telecommunication company to be run by the Ministry of Information and Communication.

Complex rules and procedures have been preventing locally grown products from getting their place on supermarket shelves.

Hundreds of people have stayed overnight at Saigon Station, waiting to buy tickets in order to visit their hometowns for Tet.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung on December 20 leaves Hanoi for New Delhi to attend the ASEAN-India Commemorative Summit marking the 20 th anniversary of the two sides’ dialogue relations.

American Olivia Culpo was crowned Miss Universe 2012 Wednesday, the eighth time an American has won the pageant .

Three hotels in Vietnam have been named in the 2012 T+L 500 list following the selection of readers of the Travel + Leisure magazine, the biggest tourism publication published globally.

Despite financial difficulties, many enterprises are trying to find ways to pay Tet bonuses for their employees and buy bus tickets for them to return home for the holidays.