VIETNAM TODAY

Syrian forces have launched an all-out assault on opposition strongholds in Damascus, after rebels seized crossings on the Iraq and Turkey borders amid a heavy death toll.

Steps are being taken to shift a polluting coal plant in the centre of Ha Long City to a new site seven kilometres away.

The Ministry of Information and Communications will impose a ban on importing second-hand electronic devices.

The unmanned Japanese spacecraft HTV-3 left the Tanegashima Space Centre on July 21, bringing five small satellites, including Vietnam’s F-1, into orbit.

Cambodia’s Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong announced ASEAN’s principles on the East Sea in Phnom Penh.

Hanoi’s consumer price index (CPI) for July was 0.29 percent lower than that last months, but 4.64 percent higher when compared to the same period last year.

A masked gunman in full body armour opened fire at an US movie theatre in a bloodbath which left at least 12 dead and nearly 60 injured.

The lending interest rate of 15% per annum will be maintained for at least one year, said the State Bank of Vietnam Governor.

The Vietnamese sports delegation has left the country for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

A report by Vietnamworks job search site says the online labour demand index dropped by 18 percent in the first half of the year against the corresponding period last year.

Second-round play began Friday at the British Open with Rory McIlroy among the early starters chasing 18-hole leader Adam Scott and Tiger Woods among the last of the leaders out at Royal Lytham.

For 15 years Aurelien Brule has lived in the Indonesian jungle, crusading against palm oil multinationals, loggers and corruption in his bid to save endangered gibbons from annihilation.

As part of the twelfth Pink Holiday campaign, some young professionals have traveled beyond the country’s border, going to some isolated provinces in Laos to help out the friendly neighbours.

Various problems have slowed the development of an urban railway system to ease Hanoi's traffic.

The United States House of Representatives approved $606 billion in defense spending for next year after two days of debate.

Customs officials at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City have seized a large haul of ivory worth an estimated $218,000 from two Vietnamese passengers.

Saigon Post and Telecommunications Services Corporation, will pay former S-Fone employees their severance packages.

Primary, secondary, and junior school teachers work 60 to 70 hours a week, but half of them get paid below the national average, a workshop heard in HCM City on Wednesday.

Bulgarian authorities released images of the suspected suicide bomber behind a deadly attack on Israeli tourists.