VIETNAM TODAY

MoNRE called for educational campaigns in an effort towards preserving biodiversity, poverty reduction and coping with climate change of Mekong Delta.

An Iranian film noir about an academic who returns home to a family and country he no longer recognises made a splash at the Cannes festival.

Recent deadly road accidents involving unskilled drivers have driven relevant agencies to improve training and examinations for driving licences.

Tobacco companies have been finding various ways to get around Vietnam's law on advertisement of their products.

Rises in petrol prices and minimum wage have been the main reasons for the increase in CPI in May, economic experts said.

Students at 40 secondary schools in Ho Chi Minh City have been learning about wildlife preservation through extracurricular classes offered in temporary tents set up on their campuses.

The Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi Hotel opened its secret bunker to tourists from May 21, nearly a year after it was discovered.

Signs of declining economic growth have emerged with many enterprises declaring themselves bankrupt, says Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

US President Barack Obama pressed eurozone governments to improve their coordination to combat the debt crisis, adding that the trouble in Greece has an impact on the US.

Yemen vowed to fight "terrorism" regardless of the sacrifices as Al-Qaeda claimed it was behind a bombing killing 96 troops.

Despite numerous study consultancy firms having been established across Vietnam, many of them have been found as not meeting the requirements for operation.

French prosecutors opened a preliminary investigation into accusations that disgraced ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn took part in a gang rape in the United States.

HCM City will build a new administrative centre over an 18,000 square metre land plot in the city centre.

The Government is determined to focus on facilitating production and business, controlling inflation and stabilising marcroeconomy for the rest of 2012, a report said.

Coastal forest in the Mekong Delta is being narrowed while the sea is infiltrating deeply into the mainland.

The Ministry of Finance is mulling over a plan to lower retail petrol prices as petroleum traders are making profits of VND1,700 per litre.

From April 2007, Vietnam's banking industry has turned to a new phase when the nation fully joined WTO and more international financial institutions become strategic shareholders at local banks.

A luxury bus service between Ho Chi Minh City and Phnom Penh has started in HCM City as a private-public co-operation effort to have more Vietnamese tourists visit Cambodia .

Vietnam's aviation sector is growing rapidly, according to Lai Xuan Thanh, deputy director general of the Civil Aviation Administration.