VIETNAM TODAY

The Government has promised to take drastic actions in dealing with violations in the banking sector.

Vietnam will remain among the Asia Pacific region’s top ten countries for having the most attractive investment environment, a survey showed.

French President Francois Hollande is scheduled to decorate former Beatle Paul McCartney with a Legion of Honour award.

Despite the strict regulations, minerals still have been illegally exploited and exported every day in the southern province of Binh Duong.

With 352 points, FIFA-accredited referee Vo Quang Vinh won the 2012 Golden Whistle award for the year's best referee, the Vietnam Football Federation announced.

All 18 Vietnamese exporting tra fish fillets to the US have been exempted from anti-dumping taxes.

Vietnamese travel firms have been working hard, but they cannot earn much money, because they have to offer the “tidbit” to foreign partners.

The number of people who died after a boat carrying migrants sank off western Turkey's Aegean coast has risen to 58, Turkish news channels reported on Thursday.

HCMC People's Committee has ordered local authorities to send their work dossiers in electronic form.

Roger Federer was knocked out of the U.S. Open when he lost a quarter-final thriller to Tomas Berdych just hours after his old rival Andy Roddick bid a tearful farewell to his tennis career.

The Song Tranh Hydro-power 2 Plant has encountered up to nine earthquakes for over the past three days.

The polluted environment surrounding 47 trade villages nation-wide is set to be gradually removed under the National Target Programme on Environmental Pollution Improvement.

State President Truong Tan Sang, his wife and delegation left Hanoi for the 20th APEC Leaders’ Meeting in Russia from September 6-9 and Kazakhstan from September 9-11.

The Government will only keep five to seven key State-owned groups in a bid to create an even playing field for the private sector.

Vietnamese representative Ngoc Oanh was placed third in the final round of the Asian Supermodel contest held in Bangkok, Thailand.

A powerful earthquake rocked Costa Rica, killing at least two people, sparking landslides, knocking down buildings, and briefly triggering a tsunami warning.

The PM requested agencies to find out who was complicit in the escape of Former Chairman of Vinalines, Duong Chi Dung.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has said he is confident in the prospects for economic growth in 2013.

People from Da Nang city to Ca Mau province will be better served in medical treatment as many hospitals are planning to set up satellite units throughout southern Vietnam.