VIETNAM TODAY

Thousands of households in Quang Binh Province have been forced to use unhealthy filtration systems.

President Barack Obama has allowed the US Export-Import Bank to loan the VNPT US$125.9 million to buy a US-made communications satellite, announced the White House.

Tran Thi Tinh (31) from Lai Vung district, the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap has given birth to four baby girls in Ho Chi Minh City’s Tu Du hospital.

Vietnam requests that China cease the invitation of international bids for 09 oil and gas lots within Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone and continental shelf.

The MIC is seeking PM’s approval for a fund to provide low interest rate loans for affordable housing to help low-income families.

The English words have been resounded every night not from a foreign language center, but the small temples in HCMC and Thua Thien-Hue Province.

An expert proposed that banks act as intermediaries through contracts between home buyers and project investors.

Some 27 million people worldwide are problem drug users, with almost one percent every year dying from narcotics abuse, a UN report showed.

Another major tournament, and another major disappointment for Wayne Rooney.

Turkey's prime minister vowed to retaliate against Syria for its 'heinous' downing of one of its warplanes such attack on one of its members was unacceptable.

More than 31,000 foreigners are working illegally in Vietnam, according to the Employment Department under the MoLISA.

Vietnam received the Energy Globe Award 2012 for project Hybrid power system to supply power for Truong Sa Islands and the DK1 marine defense platform in the East Sea.

The race to sell airliners is putting the aerospace companies of the world in cut-throat competition to recruit engineers.

Police in Thuan Nam District, located in the central province of Ninh Thuan, arrested a ring who have been accused of illegally selling grave plots.

The State Bank of Vietnam has required credit organisations to stop allowing the depositing and lending of gold.

Lack of unanimity among ministries had deterred the development of Vietnam's motor vehicle industry.

After Dancing with The Stars show concluded, singer Phuong Thanh, one of the show’s contestants, accused the organisers of arranging the result.

HCMC had 5.7 million vehicles, with 508,000 cars and 5.2 motorbikes by this June, says a recent report.

Tempers are fraying at Italy's tax offices, as higher bills and government clamp-down on evaders has driven the people to vent anger on the country's most hated institution.