VIETNAM TODAY

England will defend their ranking as the top Test team in the world when they come up against a strong South African side in the first of three Test matches at the Oval on Thursday.

Mobile phone service provider S-Fone has been accused by its employees of not paying salaries and social insurance.

A student of the HCM City Foreign Trade University has made a handbook of green tips for housewives, becoming one of eight students nationwide recognised as Bayer environmental ambassadors this year

Microsoft says Windows 8 will go on sale Oct. 26. The upgrade to its operating system is designed to work better with touch screens and on tablet computers.

Police announced an investigation into the cruel killing of two endangered monkeys that were severely abused and then boiled by a group of young men dressed in military uniform.

Police have identified two Vietnamese-Americans shot in an apparent murder-suicide Sunday at a Virginia shopping center.

Vietnam has sufficient legal and historical evidence to affirm its sovereignty over Truong Sa and Hoang Sa archipelagos.

Hanoi has spent hundreds of billions of VND on upgrading traditional markets, but they have failed to attract customers.

International envoy Kofi Annan pleaded with the UN Council to take "decisive" action on the Syria conflict.

Police in the northeastern border province of Quang Ninh has broken up a drug trafficking ring from Laos to Vietnam, seizing more than 1,000 cakes of heroin and dozens of kilograms of synthetic drugs.

Rajesh Khanna, often referred to as the "first superstar" of Bollywood and the Hindi film industry's biggest heart-throb in his day, died on Wednesday after months of being unwell.

The aftermath of a floodgate malfunction in 2010 at Ho Ho Power Plant in Ha Tinh Province has not been fully dealt with, and cracks have recently been detected in the dam.

Syria's defense minister and President Bashar al-Assad's brother in-law were killed in a suicide bomb attack in Damascus.

Fulfilling the commitments to cut down expenses made to the Ministry of Finance, a lot of state owned general corporations have unanimously cut down their workers’ wages.

Hanoi will bring more land affected by flooding and landslides into its rural residential area plan so it can provide prevention and mitigation measures.

Nowadays, when almost every member of a family is busy and has little time on hand, a helper who can take care of their sick relative in hospital can prove to be a savior and a necessity.

The HCMC Real Estate Association suggested setting up a land fund development organisation specialising in site-clearance to ensure fairness for local residents as well as clean land funds for developers.

The property fever in Hanoi’s Ba Vi District seems to have subsided, leaving many speculators in difficulties.

South Korea's anti-trust watchdog launched a probe Wednesday into major local banks suspected of colluding to fix interest rates of certificates of deposit.