VIETNAM TODAY

More than 7,000 cubic metres of soil polluted with Dioxin around Phu Cat Airport have been cleaned up.

A project to establish the procedure for casting votes of confidence on key posts elected or approved by the NA and people’s councils is necessary and timely, the NA Chairman said.

The eurozone crisis returns with a vengeance this week after a brief respite for German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

SHB Da Nang won Vietnam’s top-flight soccer competition V-League after beating XM The Vissai Ninh Binh 3-1 in an away game of the 2012 season’s last matchday.

President Bashar al-Assad made a rare public appearance for the Muslim holiday of Eid as activists staged protests across Syria to rage against the regime.

A program on cultural, sport and tourism exchanges between Vietnam and Laos kicked off in Ha Tinh City, with the participation of six Vietnamese and Lao art troupes.

A sewerage, which will help deal with waste water for the major drainage Thi Nghe-Nhieu Loc canal in HCM City, was inaugurated in a ceremony which saw the presence of President Truong Tan Sang.

A Sudanese cabinet minister was among 31 people killed when a plane crashed as it carried a delegation to war-torn South Kordofan state for Muslim Eid holiday celebrations, officials and state media said.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung asked for a solution to patient overload in hospitals at an inaugural ceremony for a new facility of the Vietnam national cancer hospital in Hanoi.

Many Hanoians have been buying apartments in old buildings for fear of fraud and slow construction progress in new projects.

The 124th birth anniversary of late President Ton Duc Thang was celebrated in a ceremony held at the Ton Duc Thang Museum in Ho Chi Minh City on August 17.

Ten people have lost their lives and 18 others have been reportedly missing or injured after tropical storm Kai-tak hit northern Vietnam, according to the National Committee for Search and Rescue.

Part 6 of Laura Lam's Dien Bien Phu series tells how tonnes of French parachute supplies were caputured by Viet Minh.

At least 10 Japanese nationalist activists have landed on a group of disputed islands, amid an escalating territorial row with China.

Miss China won the coveted title of Miss World on Saturday, triumphing on home soil during a glitzy final held in a mining city on the edge of the Gobi desert.

Vietnam should weigh the impacts of climate change when planning development strategies, experts said.

Mexico and Vietnam should share experience in socio-economic development considering their similarities, said the new President of the Mexican Institute for Friendship and Cooperation with Vietnam.

Much of the safety gear currently on the market is insufficiently labelled, posing a threat to labourers' health, experts have said.

The Deputy Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam advised people and enterprises not to rush to sell malformed gold bars.