VIETNAM TODAY

Samsung vowed to press ahead with the US launch of its newest smartphone, despite a lawsuit filed by rival Apple seeking to block the cutting-edge model.

Despite Lai and her daughter stripping naked to retain their land, it has been decided that their compensation will remain unchanged.

Police in Quang Ngai Province discovered and seized 782 Ensure cans bearing fake labels at a company named Thien An.

A DTiNews reporter took photos of rare dry scenes in An Giang and Dong Thap provinces.

Minister of Planning and Investment Bui Quang Vinh told correspondents on the sideline of the mid-term Consultation Group that Denmark does not officially cut ODA grants yet.

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) will complete all related legal frameworks for the use of plastic money-credit and debit cards, as well as other forms of electronic payment in 2012.

Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien attended the Ministerial Health Leaders’ Forum held by Harvard University in Massachusetts in the US.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong received Liu Yunshan, member of the Communist Party of China’s Central Committee (CPC CC)’s political bureau in Hanoi.

Despite the fall in the import price, petrol price cuts will not be as sharp as price hikes, said the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad "massacred" about 100 people at a village, the opposition Syrian National Council said.

South Korea’s Allkpop website recently reported that Bao Thy, a Vietnamese pop singer, copied the idea of Korean teenage singer HyunA’s “Bubble Pop” clip.

Vietnam will officially deregulate the power market on July 1 to boost competition and reduce the monopoly of the Vietnam Electricity Corporation.

During a five-day joint patrol, the Vietnamese and Chinese navies will together go the rounds in the joint fishing area and practice an anti-pirate maneuver.

The fourth ICFOOD Cup has been held at Chungnam National University in the Republic of Korea, by the Vietnamese Students’ Association and the Korean ICFOOD Company.

Police in Bo Trach District in Quang Binh Province prosecuted five people in connection with stealing Sua timber from the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park.

A solar plane made history by landing in the Moroccan capital after flying across the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain on the world's first intercontinental flight in a plane powered by the sun.

Vietnam along with nearly 90 countries from across the world took part in a charity fair in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur, to raise funds for disadvantaged children.

The United States said Al-Qaeda number two Abu Yahya al-Libi was dead, after a drone strike dealt the most weighty blow to the terror group since the killing of Osama bin Laden.

The Minister of Construction proposed certain measures to deal with the outstanding problems in the real estate market.