VIETNAM TODAY

Some of Hanoi's poorer students will be eligible for tuition fee exemptions from the coming school year.

More than 30 people were killed in South Africa when a train ploughed into a truck.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs is drafting regulations covering salaries, allowance and bonuses for people in top positions in State-owned companies.

The Prime Minister has asked deputy prime ministers and ministers to review their work after their first term in office.

China's economy expanded at its slowest pace since the depths of the global financial crisis more than three years ago.

A series of installation arts exhibitions are being held to depict the lasting cultural value and economic vitality of traditional crafts.

Hanoi to relocate 70% of old quarter households to new urban areas by 2020.

Vietnam recorded a trade deficit of just USD158 milion, lower than the USD685 million expected by the Government.

An official from the State Bank of Vietnam said that they will not need VND100 trillion to deal with the bad debts at local banks.

The capital city plans to spend more than VND116 trillion ($5.5 billion) for upgrading its urban drainage system.

An auto company whose shipment of vehicles has been stuck at Dinh Vu Port for two years, sent a petition to the Minister of Finance for help.

The 19th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF 19) took place in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with the participation of 10 ASEAN members and the bloc’s important partners.

More than 100 people who rushed to scoop up fuel after a Nigerian petrol tanker tipped over were burned to death when the vehicle and spilled oil caught fire.

Millions of pre-paid mobile phone subscribers in HCM City may have to re-register their personal information.

Seven Chinese clinics in HCM City have been found to be supplying medicine of unclear origin that advertise exaggerated benefits.

Hanoi aims to put an end to flooding in the city’s centre by 2015.

Syrian government troops massacred more than 200 people in Hama province, a rebel leader said.

The average price increase on Vietnamese drugs was higher than on their foreign counterparts.

Vietnam will tighten checks and quarantine procedures on the border with Cambodia to protect the country from an unidentified disease that has killed 56 Cambodians recently.