VIETNAM TODAY

Chelsea's chances of successfully defending their Champions League crown will be given a stiff early examination when they take on Italian champions Juventus.

The model of innovative universities being developed and applied in several countries can help reform higher education in Vietnam.

With only $700 in her pocket, Khanh Huyen, a girl from Hanoi, has traveled to 25 countries in Asia and Africa in two years.

An estimated 2, 500 enterprises in Hanoi have dissolved or halted activity in the first nine months of the year.

The Ministry of Construction is seeking support from the Government to ease difficulties for companies operating in the construction materials sector.

Upgrading the country's irrigation system to improve its efficiency to 80% will require around $1 billion.

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.