VIETNAM TODAY

The MoIT has denied a electricity price hike in October because the inspection over power production cost has not been completed.

Experts from Germany, ASEAN and international organizations will gather in Hanoi earlier this month for a regional conference on vocational training.

Hanoi People's Committee Vice Chairman Tran Xuan Viet has urged the city's Agriculture and Rural Development Department to finalise a plan to protect and develop forests in the expanded city.

TripAdvisor - the world's largest travel website, has named the Vietnam Women’s Museum as Hanoi’s most attractive tourist destination in 2012.

A boat packed with holiday revelers collided with a ferry and sank off Hong Kong, killing 25 people, authorities said.

Vietnam will need at least seven years to sell 70,000 apartments that lie empty if the country does not apply any stimulus measures.

The world's top platinum miner ordered 26,000 striking workers in South Africa to report for disciplinary hearings or risk the sack.

Hailed by health officials as the catalyst for improved medical services, it seems August's health fees increase hasn't proved popular with everyone.

Spain may seek a sovereign bailout within days, financial analysts predicted Monday, after the eurozone's fourth-largest economy revealed a soaring debt outlook.

Land and land clearance made up 75 percent of all complaints and denunciations received by Hanoi's People's Committee in the first nine month of the year, said a local official.

With nearly 2.6 billion litres of beer consumed in 2011, Vietnam ranks first in Southeast Asia for beer drinking, followed by Thailand and the Philippines.

The sixth meeting of the 11th Communist Party of Vietnam’s Central Committee opened in Hanoi on October 1.

A rare crocodile, believed to be a Siamese crocodile of the Crocodylus Siamensis species, and the last of its kind in Vietnam, was found dead in Phu Yen Province.

Joint-stock credit institutions are expected to face even more difficulties to be listed on the stock market after the central bank's newly issued circular.

Vietnam will have a warmer and shorter winter this year, said an official.

The 12th annual charity Fun Run at Ho Chi Minh City’s Phu My Hung Urban Area was hailed as a roaring success.

Vietnam’s stated-owned enterprises have racked up an estimated VND200 trillion (USD9.52 billion) in bad debts.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved the low-carbon agricultural support project with a total capitalization of $84 million.

Oscar-nominated "Himalaya" opened up the remote, pristine villages of the world's tallest mountain range to the West.