VIETNAM TODAY

Vinalines has sought approval of the Ministry of Transport to lower the level of investment for its ship fleet from $4.8 billion to $3.3 billion.

Attendance at many entertainment venues in HCMC has fallen because of competition from the numerous on national television networks as well as the economic turndown.

Several English centres in HCMC leave their victims scratching heads after they suddenly shut down without paying refunds to students and salary arrears to teachers.

Part of streets around the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in the capital city will be turned into pedestrian streets if a proposal is approved.

Southern Binh Duong province takes the lead in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) with US$1.6 billion, or 37.2 percent of the country’s total FDI, over the past four months.

The HCM City Environmental Crime Prevention and Fighting Police Department discovered five factories in District 12 discharging untreated wastewater and emissions into the environment.

Oil prices dropped as traders worried about disappointing Chinese economic data and debt-wracked Greece.

Filippo Inzaghi, Gennaro Gattuso and Alessandro Nesta will end their AC Milan careers against Novara on Sunday as the end of an era is all but completed at the San Siro.

The number of Vietnamese women dying during labour is remaining high, 75 out of 100,000 cases, health experts said.

The eurozone would cope if Greece left the currency union, Germany's finance minister said in an interview as Greek parties continued with efforts to form a government coalition.

HCM City's environment protection programme has not been effective as it has faced many obstacles that have rendered the anti-pollution measures redundant, local residents said.

As the number of foreign visitors to Ho Chi Minh City has increasingly grown, it is essential to make further efforts to protect them from criminals, the city police said.

Japanese researchers unveiled a population clock that showed the nation's people could theoretically become extinct in 1,000 years because of declining birth rates.

While homeschooling remains unfamiliar to many Vietnamese, the concept has recently been imported to the country by the parents who have the chances to work and live abroad.

The only SSJ-100 plane Sukhoi intended to use at the show has slammed into a mountain in Indonesia, killing all people aboard.

The General Department of Customs said that owners of at least 100 enterprises with tax arrears have fled, avoiding paying tax.

Despite Hanoi having spent huge sums of money on pedestrian underpasses, most of them remain abandoned or misused.

The Vietnamese Embassy in the US, in coordination with the Southeast Asia Roundtable Forum, held the second Vietnam Forum on the US-ASEAN relationship, in Washington DC.

The practice of using bear bile and other products for medicinal purposes has pushed the species to the brink of extinction, according to a recent study.