VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnam’s surprising 3-2 win against Japan has landed them in the 2012 Asian Women's Cup Volleyball Championship quarterfinals, which is being held in Kazakhstan.

Local gold buyers jostled to sell their bullion as domestic gold price skyrocketed to VND47.4 million a tael, the highest since September 2011.

The head of Libya's national assembly blamed Al-Qaeda for an attack on the US consulate in the city of Benghazi that killed ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

Despite the increased number of illegal foreign traders in Vietnam, the Government has found it hard to prosecute them.

The Central Highlands provinces have provided free housing to 18,695 ethnic-minority households with a total population of 80,000, according to the region's Steering Committee.

A number of young women have been opting to stage wedding photographs as a way to ease their loneliness.

The Justice Ministry has presented to the NA a draft law on civil status registry, under which every citizen will be granted one single identification number to be used on all licenses.

Apple did not violate patents owned by Samsung Electronics in making the iPod touch, iPhone and iPad, a judge at the ITC said.

Japanese businesses, which are operating over 2,000 projects in Vietnam, are in need of a high-quality workforce, says Vietnamese ambassador to Japan Doan Xuan Hung.

The UN food agency said it was looking for support from world religious leaders in the fight against global hunger as the agency's chief met the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople.

Despite the Ministry of Health's proposal to apply IT in management, hospitals have proved reluctant to upgrade their services.

Sudanese demonstrators incensed by a film that insults the Prophet Mohammad broke into the German embassy in Khartoum on Friday and hoisted an Islamic flag, while one person was killed in protests in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli.

Saigon Jewelry Co., the country’s sole gold bullion producer, has asked permission to turn gold jewelry into SJC gold bars to make up for the short supply.

‘Giai Dieu Ky Uc’ (Melodies of Time) by the Hai Phong City Puppetry Art Troupe won one of three gold prizes of the third International Marionette Festival at Au Co Arts Centre.

Japan is expected to propose abandoning nuclear power by the 2030s, a major shift from policy goals set before last year's Fukushima disaster.

Vietnam lacks specific plans to teach children to swim though mortality rates from drowning rank second in overall fatalities.

A French magazine on Friday published topless pictures of Prince William's wife Catherine taken while the pair were on holiday in France, in a move met with dismay by the royal couple.

School leaders must take direct responsibility for abuses in the school fees system, the Ministry of Education and Training have declared.

Antarctica's Ross Sea is often described as the most isolated and pristine ocean on Earth, but there it has proven difficult for nations to agree on how strongly to protect the environment.