VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnam will meet Myanmar in the final of the ASEAN Football Federation Women’s Football Championships following a thumping 7-0 semi-final victory over Laos.

The Vietnam-US Dialogue Group has announced the goal of basically solved the consequences of Agent Orange/dioxin in Vietnam by 2020 at the seventh meeting of the Vietnam-US Joint Advisory Council (JAC) in Hanoi on September 20.

HCM City’s HIV/AIDS prevention and control system is facing high risk of bankruptcy.

The last of the 33,000 US soldiers that Barack Obama sent to Afghanistan nearly three years ago as part of a military surge have left the country.

Rapid urbanisation has changed the characters of many Hanoi’s traditional handicraft villages, including Hau Ai, which specialises in making Mid-autumn toys.

Representatives of the Asia Pacific Fishery Commission's member countries gathered yesterday in Da Nang to discuss ways to develop regional fisheries in a sustainable manner.

In the year to mid-September, seven of Vietnam’s agricultural export staples have entered the billion US dollar club, which includes commodities that bring in revenues worth at least US$1 billion for the country.

Cooking in Hoi An is one of the activities ranked in the top 10 special travel experiences in the world. This is voted by the Lonely Planet, the "lodestar of backpackers".

In a now familiar ritual, Apple's Asian fans jammed the tech juggernaut's shops in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore to pick up the latest version of its iPhone.

The PM has reaffirmed Vietnam’s consistent, long-term and strategic policy of consolidating and strengthening the friendly and comprehensive cooperative ties with China.

Experts from the National Institute for Nutrition agreed in a seminar that Vietnamese people are becoming over-weight due to consuming too much meat.

HCM City’s consumer price index rose by 1.21 percent in September, according to the municipal Statistics Department.

A major drop in development aid have put at risk development goals set by world leaders with a 2015 deadline, the UN said.

The biggest difficulty facing local banking sector’s restructuring will be dealing with interest groups, said a local economist.

Serious environmental polluters may be fined up to VND2 billion ($95,240) – almost four times the present level, said a local official.

The Vietnam Volunteer Information Resource Centre and a UN-funded project on enhancing volunteer capacity for Vietnam’s development met to set up a network of volunteer organisations.

Vietnam’s efforts to better teach its students English have encountered a problem as electronic reading pens are now regarded as inconvenient and ineffective.

Hundreds of Afghans protested for the first time against cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed published in France and staged fresh rallies against a US-made anti-Islam film.

State management agencies are trying to tighten the control over bear captivity establishments before absolutely eliminating the establishments.