VIETNAM TODAY

A photo exhibition featuring life of single disabled women will be open from September 20-21 in Hanoi, with all proceeds going to help the plight of the exhibit's subjects.

Hanoi’s consumer price index was estimated to have increased by 2.47% from August to September, setting a record high since May 2011.

A highly-virulent, newly-mutated bird flu H5N1 strain is likely to spread from North Vietnam to the South at a menacing pace, warned the deputy head of Animal Health Department.

Police has decided to supplement earlier prosecution decisions regarding Nguyen Duc Kien, former Vice Chair of the ACB.

Every afternoon visitors to the Dien Market, Hanoi, will be treated to aerobics performance by the people who work the stalls.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung has affirmed the Vietnamese Government’s support to its defence cooperation with Cuba, especially in military technology, army building and officer training.

At least 10 people died when a fire erupted at a gas facility owned by Mexican energy giant Pemex near the US border, the state-run energy company said.

Libraries in Ho Chi Minh City are presently facing many difficulties like shortage of capital, lack of proper premises and poorly trained human resources.

Kaolin mining is destroying tea fields in Bao Loc in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong.

Vietnamese enterprises have some advantages in investing in Myanmar due to the economic situation and reforms in Myanmar that are quite similar to Vietnam in the past.

VND11.27 trillion ($524 million) is the amount of money that will be spent to build the new National Museum of History in Hanoi. Meanwhile, if several billion dong was quickly poured for the renovation of Tram Gian Buddhist Temple,

The amended Land Law draft attempts to create a provision on fairer land pricing, however, it is too vague to ensure feasibility in practice, agreed members of the National Assembly's Standing Committee yesterday during a review of the proposal.

Traders will have to deposit USD240,000 in environmental fee charges to destroy outdated inventories that can't be re-exported or illegal temporary imports.

Tran Ngoc Lan Khue, a promising contestant for the 2012 Vietnam Supermodel, will join models from 10 Asian countries to take part in the Asian Super Model Contest in China.

Automobile manufacturers, authorized distribution companies and private car dealers have always been suffering a constant anxiety about the changeable policies.

Anti-Japan protests reignited across China on Tuesday, forcing Japanese firms in the country to suspend operations.

Phnom Penh, Vientiane and HCMC signed an agreement on tourism cooperation that encompasse the three cities.

Smartphone sales in Vietnam are forecast to increase 5 percent year on year to 21 percent of total mobile phone sales in 2012, said an expert.

Mitt Romney was rocked by a secretly filmed video in which he said nearly half of Americans back President Obama because they are government-dependent "victims" who dodge taxes.