VIETNAM TODAY

Australian Clive Palmer unveiled plans to build a 21st century version of the doomed Titanic in China.

State President Truong Tan Sang paid a special visit to Phu Quoc Island in the southern province of Kien Giang on April 28 and 29.

An increasing number of students choose to study in other countries, posing challenges for the education system in Vietnam.

As of the end of April, more than 500 cases of hand-foot-mouth (HFM) disease have been reported in the southern province of Ben Tre.

Authorities in northern China have ordered a Coca-Cola bottling plant shut after finding its products were contaminated by chlorine, according to a government statement.

The Southern Cuisine Festival kicked off in Can Tho city within the framework of activities to mark the progress of ten years of construction and development in the Mekong Delta region.

Economic ministers from Japan and member countries of the ASEAN held a meeting in Tokyo to explore ways to deepen their cooperation to encourage trade and investment in the region.

There are optimistic signs of investors coming back to the real-estate market in HCM City after the State Bank of Vietnam announced to lower interest rates.

Attackers with bombs and guns opened fire at church services at a Nigerian university, killing around 20 people, officials said.

A veteran peacekeeper flew in Sunday to take command of UN observers in Syria who urged all sides to respect a more than two-week-old ceasefire that has been violated with bloodshed each day.

Ho Chi Minh City on April 29 held a grand meeting to celebrate the 37th anniversary of the liberation of the south and national reunification (April 30).

Thousands of domestic and foreign tourists flocked to the opening of the Festival in the Clouds 2012 in the mountainous tourist town of Sapa on April 28.

France's presidential election headed into its final week with the spluttering economy topping the agenda.

For some who fought in the Vietnam War in the 1960s and early 1970s, the urge to return here and “make things right” has only grown.

An exhibition and fair celebrating on a decade of construction and development in the Mekong Delta region opened in Can Tho city.

A hundred people gathered in Dong Nai Province to protest the pollution from discharged waste.

Male model Le Xuan Vinh Thuy received a six month suspended sentence for smuggling and trading in Electronic goods brought in from Australia to sell in Vietnam.

Vietnam has detained Richard Nguyen, a Vietnamese born American citizen, on the charge of “terrorist acts against the people’s administration”.

Hanoi plans to develop its public bus fleet to reach all localities throughout the city in the near future, an official said.