VIETNAM TODAY

UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had accepted an April 10 deadline to start implementing a peace plan.

Seven people were killed and three injured when a gunman opened fire at a private college near San Francisco, officials said.

Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai joined Asian leaders, scholars and executives at the opening ceremony of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) conference in Hainan, China, on April 2.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong will pay an official friendship visit to Cuba and a State-level visit to Brazil in the near future.

Eurozone unemployment jumped to an all-time high in February, hitting southern nations the hardest as the social toll from the debt crisis grips the 17-nation bloc, official figures showed.

HCM City leaders and representatives of various departments toured Can Gio District to check the damage caused by Storm ‘Phakar’, and to speed up restoration work.

The inefficient use of capital is to blame for the recent spate of business bankruptcies, said Minister Vu Duc Dam.

Inflation dominated the discussion at the Government meeting in Hanoi, but at the press conference immediately following, the hottest topic was extra fees for vehicles in congested cities.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked the State Bank of Vietnam to press ahead with drastic action to keep inflation at a single digit figure and maintain an appropriate economic growth of 6 percent.

Thirty-one people were killed Monday when a passenger plane crashed moments after takeoff in an oil-rich Siberian region in the latest accident to hit Russia's crisis-prone aviation industry.

After blowing through Binh Thuan and Ba Ria-Vung Tau Provinces, tropical storm Pakhar hit HCM City, and did not cause serious damage or human loss.

The operator of Keangnam Landmark Tower in Hanoi has announced the application of new monthly service fees.

Vietnamese hopeful Nguyen Thi Lua has taken a berth to the world’s largest sporting event after wining a silver medal at the 2012 Olympic-Asian Wrestling Qualifiers in Kazakhstan.

The General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Nguyen Phu Trong, will pay an official visit to Cuba and a State-level visit to Brazil in the near future.

Top Japanese electronics producers are exposed to great tectonic changes, an economist said.

Western and Arab nations called for Syria's Bashar al-Assad to be given a deadline to meet the terms of a peace plan.

The 16th ASEAN finance ministers' meeting closed in Phnom Penh on March 30, with an agreement to boost regional financial integration, to make the ASEAN Economic Community a reality by 2015.

Domestic coffee businesses continue hit snags as farmers still speculate products and sell them based on rumours.

Vietnam saved 546,000 kWh of electricity, equivalent to 712 million VND by switching off lights during Earth Hour on March 31, according to the Electricity of Vietnam.