VIETNAM TODAY

Gia Hung, 19 from Lao Cai is earning nearly VND30 million per month from his unique cheap photo service for Hanoian teenagers.

One and a half million elderly people will be receiving care at support centres or monthly social allowance by 2015.

President Truong Tan Sang told President of Zanzibar that there is room for Vietnam and Zanzibar to boost bilateral cooperation, especially in economics, trade, agriculture, and food security.

The US is concerned about Egyptian President's decision to assume sweeping powers, the U.S. State Department said.

Up to 38% small and medium-sized enterprises admitted to paying bribes in 2011, up from 34% 2009, according to a report.

Supporters and opponents of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi called rival demonstrations Friday after the Islamist leader assumed sweeping powers in what critics dubbed a "coup".

Specialty retailing is believed to be the dominant tendency in the near future, because this is the only model to be able to exist in the cutthroat competition among retailers.

Lack of demand has forced the biggest Dong Ho paintings shop in the birthplace of the art form, Quang Ninh Province, to sell commonplace souvenirs to make ends meet.

Only a small number of traffic accident victims are provided with timely first aid, leading to high rates of fatality, a recent report said.

‘Khue Van Cac’ (Pavilion of the Constellation of Literature) in the Temple of Literature was chosen as the official symbol for Vietnam’s capital Hanoi.

The Institute of Chemistry said they have found cancer-causing chemicals in Chinese-made bras sold in Vietnam.

Museums in Vietnam are not appealing enough for tourists, resulting in them being bypassed by agencies organising visitor tours.

Vietnam Marine Police arrested 11 foreign pirates who previously robbed the Malaysian oil tanker, ZAFIRAH.

In next month's general election, politicians-nearly all of them men-will make promises on what they will do to fix Japan's economic morass. Very few of them will even mention women.

Mui Ca Mau (Ca Mau Cape) National Park in the southernmost province of Ca Mau will be recognised as a new Ramsar site of the world and the fifth in Vietnam.

Starbucks Coffee, the well-known coffee brand, will surely be present in the Vietnamese market with the first shop of the chain will be in HCM City.

The Law on Capital City will help to slash migrant numbers to Hanoi by one million people within the next five years, said a municipal official.

Vietnam’s domestic bonds grew the strongest in East Asia in the third quarter with a value of USD21 billion, the ADB said.

EU leaders named Luxembourg central bank chief Yves Mersch to a top ECB post after his nomination was held up for months by objections that there were no women candidates for the job.