VIETNAM TODAY

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung received Jeffrey Immelt, head of President Barack Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, in Hanoi.

Apple scored a legal victory over Samsung as a U.S. jury found Samsung had copied features of the popular iPhone and iPad.

A laid-off designer gunned down a former co-worker outside New York's Empire State Building before being killed by police.

The Vietnam Center for Protection of Music Copyright has recently accused Vietnam television of using foreign songs without purchasing copyright.

The first phase of construction of Phu Quoc International Airport in the southern province of Kien Giang is expected to be completed by mid-December this year.

State-owned toll stations will close from 2013 when the Road Maintenance Fund starts operation, said an official.

Apple and Samsung infringed on each other's patents on mobile devices, a Seoul court ruled Friday, awarding damages to both technology giants and imposing a partial ban on product sales in South Korea.

Al-Qaeda's front group in Iraq claimed it carried out a series of attacks, mostly on security forces, in the western province of Anbar in June and July, a statement posted on jihadist forums said.

Two petrol wholesalers proposed another rise in prices to the Ministry of Finance, which would see a VND1,200 increase per litre.

A court sentenced Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian extremist who admitted killing 77 people, to at least 21 years in prison.

There has been no increase in tuition fees at public schools for the last two years, but private schools never fail to increase theirs every year.

Many schools have failed to ban students from driving motorbikes to class despite their efforts.

Vietnamese martial artists won a gold medal and two silver medals at the Asian Wushu Championships at Phu Tho Gymnasium in HCM City on August 23.

Luxury shops located in Hanoi's up-market shopping centres are closing due to slow sales.

Vietnam has run a moderate deficit of $62 million in the past eight months despite impressive export growth.

More and more universities in Vietnam are using a well-known teaching methodology to improve training quality and improve learning in the classroom.

The US Federal Reserve said it had sold the last of its investment in insurer AIG, turning a $17.7 billion profit for the public from its 2008 bailout.

Lack of proper facilities and staff has put increasing difficulties on many semi-boarding schools in HCM City.

Gold prices in the domestic market rose sharply yesterday to VND44.7 million per tael, while global prices were US$1,656 per ounce (VND41.3 million).