VIETNAM TODAY

Amid economic difficulties and fuel price spiraling more people in Hanoi have opted to use electric bikes instead of motorbikes.

Hanoi will forceably remove residents who won't hand over their land for the construction of a section of ring road No 1 in Dong Da District.

Diverse activities will be held in Phu Tho from April 13-19 to commemorate the death anniversary of Hung Kings – the founders of the Vietnamese nation.

Singapore will host the second ABAC Meeting of 2013 from April 3 – 6 with participation of some 150 prominent business leaders from the 21 Asia - Pacific Economic Cooperation economies.

The National Financial Supervision Committee has forecast that Vietnam’s inflation rate in 2013 will be controlled at less than 7 percent.

Hydropower plants in the central province of Quang Nam have been urged to discharge water to prevent severe droughts in the area.

Rescuers have recovered 21 bodies three days after a massive landslide in Tibet buried more than 80 mine workers, China National Radio reported on Monday.

The manufacturing sector of Vietnam edged back into expansion in March, with the PMI posting a 23-month high of 5.08.

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.