VIETNAM TODAY

More than 2,500 women, children and caregivers living with or affected by HIV have received support from a project run by the Netherlands-Vietnam Medical Committee.

The SBV has forecast credit growth will increase to 12-13% and will continue increasing despite negative rumours.

Two groups of Vietnamese scientists have won awards in the first round of a US government programme to fund scientific research in developing countries.

Vietnam and the European Union are officially negoting a bilateral free trade agreement.

Many universities have incurred huge losses from holding entrance exams due to increasing prices.

Disbursement of foreign direct investment experienced a modest increase of 2% during the first half of this year, reaching $5.4 billion, said the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

British charity Save the Children on Wednesday said it was a "global scandal" that 50,000 teenagers die each year due to pregnancy and childbirth complications.

Hanoi punished 20 officials for violations related to construction management in 2011, said the municipal People’s Committee.

Thousands of households in Quang Binh Province have been forced to use unhealthy filtration systems.

President Barack Obama has allowed the US Export-Import Bank to loan the VNPT US$125.9 million to buy a US-made communications satellite, announced the White House.

Tran Thi Tinh (31) from Lai Vung district, the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap has given birth to four baby girls in Ho Chi Minh City’s Tu Du hospital.

Vietnam requests that China cease the invitation of international bids for 09 oil and gas lots within Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone and continental shelf.

The MIC is seeking PM’s approval for a fund to provide low interest rate loans for affordable housing to help low-income families.

The English words have been resounded every night not from a foreign language center, but the small temples in HCMC and Thua Thien-Hue Province.

An expert proposed that banks act as intermediaries through contracts between home buyers and project investors.

Some 27 million people worldwide are problem drug users, with almost one percent every year dying from narcotics abuse, a UN report showed.

Another major tournament, and another major disappointment for Wayne Rooney.

Turkey's prime minister vowed to retaliate against Syria for its 'heinous' downing of one of its warplanes such attack on one of its members was unacceptable.

More than 31,000 foreigners are working illegally in Vietnam, according to the Employment Department under the MoLISA.