VIETNAM TODAY

Many parents have been signing up their children for summer schools, some of which have an even more rigorous schedule than the normal school year.

US Attorney General Eric Holder appointed two prosecutors to lead a criminal investigation of high-profile leaks of classified national security secrets.

UN monitors are confronted by blood on the walls and "a strong stench of burnt flesh," as Western powers pressed for sanctions against Damascus.

Education Department and Police in Bac Giang province are investigating the cheating malpractices during the high-school graduation examination.

Vietnamese small and medium-sized enterprises are asked to unite to raise their competitiveness at national and global levels.

Chef Do Chi Cong from a Hanoi restaurant will be the first-ever Vietnamese chef to compete at the prestigious cooking contest Bocuse d'Or Asia.

A suicide blast at the police headquarters in Nigeria killed at least one police officer and four civilians, officials said.

Hanoi authorities have ordered that more than 900 construction projects be torn down due to building code violations.

Many experts said in a seminar that dioxin must be considered as a possible cause of the unidentified skin syndrome that has killed 23 people in Quang Ngai Province..

Chef Do Chi Cong from a Hanoi-based restaurant will be the first-ever Vietnamese chef to compete at the prestigious cooking contest Bocuse d'Or Asia in Shanghai this month.

Governor of State Bank of Vietnam Nguyen Van Binh said that cap on interest rate would be lowered to 9 percent from the current 11 percent next week.

Poland take on Greece in the opening match of Euro 2012, with the match threatening to be overshadowed by fresh racism fears.

Shortly after a petroleum price cut, the Ministry of Finance has also decided to increase petrol import tax to 8%.

Ha Tinh provincial government requested investors of National Highway 8A to quickly repair aging sections on the highway.

Vietnamese enterprises should see economic difficulties as a chance to for restructuring, one official said.

There are millions of Vietnamese tourists traveling abroad every year with expenditures amounting to billions of USD, but this segment has yet to be controlled tightly.

Acclaimed Hollywood Director of Photography David Worth has accepted the Wisdom House‘s invitation to lecture for Vietnamese students in HCM City from June 22-24.

Mr. Vo Quoc, director of the Vietnamese Gastronomy Company, has been selected as the first Vietnamese Culinary Culture Ambassador.

The Debt and Asset Trading Corporation and Bianfishco asked banks to turn their loans in the firm into contributed capital.