VIETNAM TODAY

The central coastal region is famous for beautiful and pristine beaches and has attracted many tourism investment projects in recent years.

Shanghai Masters organisers said they were taking a bizarre online death threat against Roger Federer "seriously" Friday and pledged to keep the world number one safe.

Stores are trying to sell their SIM cards before new rules, which will tighten control over inactive mobile subscribers, take effect.

Vietnamese badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh has successfully advanced to the semi-finals of the Chinese Taipei Open, defeating Hong Kong’s world No. 22 Wing Ki Wong.

Hailed as a hero in his native Vietnamese village, Do Van Thu has become rich and transformed the lives of hundreds of families through the sale of a precious and unorthodox crop -- hair.

The Ministry of Education and Training has drawn up a plan to recompile textbooks for general school students, estimating cost VND70 trillion.

The newly-issued hospital fees are still not estimated based on the seven price constituents. The Ministry of Health says in the future the hospital fees will include all of these factors, so the fees will increase.

Several property development projects suspended in recent years had negative impacts on the living conditions of residents around them.

Architecture Truong Trong Nghia has won two first prizes at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore.

The Vietnamese-American photographer An My Le has been awarded a ‘Genius Grant' from the MacArthur Fellowship for her collection of photographs inspired by the war in Vietnam.

The Tay Nguyen Steering Committee has urged the Government to ban natural forest exploitation in the region by early next year to protect and preserve the picturesque Central Highlands.

Fresh from passing the billion-member mark, Facebook was letting members in the US pay seven dollars each to have personal posts given priority in feeds seen by their friends.

The current law on urban migration is set to be changed, tightening the requirements for residence in five big cities of Vietnam.

A lot of solutions to the industrial waste water management have been suggested, but the hazardous waste still has been discharged directly into the environment.

On October 4, the police agency of Quang Ninh province issued a decision to prosecute the serious shipwreck in Ha Long Bay, which killed five people.

At a meeting of the Steering Board for Bird Flu Prevention, it was announced that Vietnam has now developed a vaccine that can control the new highly toxic strain of bird flu virus.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has described his disparaging remarks about the 47 percent of Americans who don't pay federal income taxes as "not elegantly stated." Now he's calling them "just completely wrong."

To help mobilise more gold from the public, the macro-economy must become more stable, urged several experts.

The tablet is now listed on Microsoft product pages in the U.S. and Europe, but with no details on price or launch date.