VIETNAM TODAY

Ticket brokers selling high priced tickets to tourist and boats leaving in no order are placing tourist at risk in Halong Bay.

A number of businesses in Binh Duong Province has turned down to workers from the some central provinces.

Fifty eight years after its liberation from French occupation, Hanoi has now taken on a new face with bright prospects.

There are plans to set up an official National Reading Day in Vietnam to encourage the once strong Vietnamese fondness for reading.

Vietnamese students have to learn harder and do more home exercises than foreign students, but this does not mean that Vietnamese are better than foreign.

Inviting supporters to taunt Barack Obama with chants of "four more weeks," rival Mitt Romney surged into the lead in US opinion polls.

The unskilled labour market, which normally sees an upswing during the last quarters, has shown a lack of vitality this year.

Most provinces in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta are experiencing a shortage of medical workers because preferential policies are not attractive enough.

Europe must do more to tackle a fiscal crisis that is heaping extra pressure on an already-strained global financial system, the International Monetary Fund warned in a new report.

The Vietnamese football team appears to be rather lucky in the coming qualifying round of the 2015 Asian Cup.

The UN is calling for Vietnam to make full use of the experience and knowledge women and girls have when addressing disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation.

Vietnam plans to train 39,000 maritime officers and crew members to meet local and export demands, said captain Tieu Van Kinh, chairman of Vietnam's Captains Club.

The recent storm and floods in the central region have destroyed more than 550 houses, 260 hectares of rice and 2,300 hectares of subsidiary crops, resulting in total damages of VND34 billion.

Despite making great efforts to improve the quality of domestic cosmetics, Vietnamese products are still regarded as inferior to their foreign rivals.

NATO said it had drawn up plans to defend Turkey should the Syrian conflict spill over their border again.

A culture, sports and tourism festival will be held in the southcentral province of Ninh Thuan from October 14-16 for Cham ethnic people from all parts of the country.

While the global economic crisis has dealt a strong blow on enterprises in many business fields, software firms still can live well because they can grab the opportunities in the crisis.

The State Audit Office issued a plan to launch an in-depth audit of all economic groups and commercial banks.

The UN's food agency revised down the number of the world's hungry on Tuesday to just under 870 million but slammed the figure as "unacceptable".