VIETNAM TODAY

The Asian Billiards Championships is held in HCM City today with 32 athletes from six countries.

Andy Murray beat Marin Cilic to reach a fifth successive Wimbledon quarter-final where he will meet Spanish bulldozer David Ferrer who has made the last eight for the first time at the 10th attempt.

Although the power price increase is within the law, EVN did not necessarily do a good job of explaining it to the public.

The world's whale body narrowly agreed to extend whaling rights for indigenous peoples in the United States, Russia and the Caribbean but opposition mounted to a hunt in Greenland.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung decided to use VND450 billion from the State budget to help top Vietnamese students selected by the Ministry of Education and Training continue their studies abroad.

The fire at the Bangchak Petroleum Plc refinery will be discussed at the meeting of the economic ministers, Thai Deputy PM Kittiratt Na-Ranong said.

The Indian Ministry of External Affairs asked relevant authorities of the West Bengal State and Kolkatta port to rescue a Vietnamese ship in distress offshore West Bengal.

A painting exhibition themed “War and Peace through Children’s Eyes” is taking place in Ho Chi Minh City.

General Raul Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee and President of the State Council and the Council of Ministers, will pay a four-day visit to Vietnam.

Lower purchase power has created more pressures to enterprises which are facing high inventories and debts.

India and Pakistan's foreign secretaries were to meet to bolster a fragile peace dialogue undermined by political flux in Pakistan and fresh tensions over the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

A lot of parents rush to bring their children to hospitals to get the certificates on mental health which they would submit to the schools.

Vietnam has ordered the cessation of licensing for foreign container ships, in an effort protect the domestic shipping industry.

49 cases and 67 people suspected of corruption have been discovered after the loss of VND132.7 billion.

Australia's Olympic athletes will be banned from using sleeping pills after ex-swimming star admitted to a heavy use of the sedatives during competition.

Social disorder has ravaged Ba Vi District’s Chu Minh Commune after locals were struck by gold fever.

Iran accused world powers of dragging their feet in negotiations over its nuclear activities, as both sides were about to hold a new, downgraded round of talks.

Barclays chief executive resigned with immediate effect over a rate rigging scandal at the British banking giant, the company said in a shock announcement.

Despite the fund of USD7.6 billion, may enterprises don't have wastewater treatment system, or those that they had were inefficient.