VIETNAM TODAY

Rat hunting season is here in the Mekong, bringing extra money for local farmers while helping them to protect their crops.

A series of tremors along with underground explosions that were heard from above and caused walls to crack occurred yesterday in the area of the Song Tranh 2 Hydropower Plant in Quang Nam Province’s Bac Tra My District.

Long-legged young women are earning easy money as models.

The second International Piano Competition Vietnam has kicked off, with new rules promising improved quality and judging standar

Many resume forgery rings have mushroomed in HCMC and Binh Duong Province to meet the rising demand of those who want to legalise their personal status and identity to find a job.

Vietnam’s top fashion designer Minh Hanh will bring 50 hand-made traditional ethnic dresses to the International Festival of Extraordinary Textiles to be held in France.

Vinacomin has sent documents to relevant agencies repeatedly, proposing to lower the coal export tariff. The agencies still keep silent, while experts have voiced their disagreement.

So far this year, food poisoning has killed 17 people and hospitalised 2,500 others as the level of substandard food imports, particularly chickens, continues to rise.

British Prime Minister David Cameron reshuffled his ailing coalition government on Tuesday, but unpopular finance minister George Osborne was expected to keep his job.

The Ministry of Finance has submitted a scheme to the Prime Minister for improving Vietnam's sovereign credit rating, with a target for the country to achieve investment grade by 2020.

Hanoi will spend VND2 trillion (USD96 million) to reduce traffic jams during the 2012-2015 period.

Many commercial banks have raced to launch preferential mortgages for people seeking homes rather than providing loans for property speculators.

The United States is weighing a deal with Egypt's new rulers to relieve $1 billion worth of debt, The New York Times reported.

Nine Vietnamese players brought home 1 gold and 5 bronze medals at the 5th World Cup Woodball Championships in Malaysia.

President Barack Obama told Americans to punt away Mitt Romney's economic game plan, in a new swipe at his Republican rival on the road to this week's Democratic National Convention.

The number of victims of traffic accidents taken to Viet Duc Hospital during the National Day holiday nearly doubled that of normal days.

Moody's lowered the European Union's long-term issuer rating outlook from stable to negative.

More than 500 delegates from 150 countries are gathering in Hanoi for the 2nd Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change to food security.

Vietnam aims to reduce its birth rate from 2.0 percent in 2010 to 1.9 percent by 2015, according to the national target program on population and family planning.