VIETNAM TODAY

While the “personal vehicle circulation fee” is still a controversy, Minister of Transport Dinh La Thang has suggested calling it as “personal vehicle restriction fee”.

A company pocketed hundreds of millions of dong by recruiting only pregnant women, swindling them of their maternal benefits.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved an $85-million new education model in primary schools.

The UN Security Council demanded that Syria immediately implement a peace plan by special envoy Kofi Annan, even as government forces pounded rebel zones around Damascus and Homs.

Despite the rising rice export prices, many farmers still have to pile up paddies in their houses since buyers, if any, always demand dirt cheap prices.

About 20-30% of agricultural land in Vietnam is expected to be flooded by the year 2100 due to rising sea levels, leading to a vast reduction in the country's food production capacity.

Riot police set off explosions outside an apartment building to force the surrender of a gunman who killed seven people.

State-owned firms investing in non-core businesses hamper competition from the private sector, economists said.

The Deputy PM urged that quick solutions be found to risks posed by cracks recorded in the Tranh River 2 hydropower dam.

The governments of the United States and Vietnam signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation on low emission development in Hanoi .

Students and parents denounced Raffles International School for not reimbursing tuition fees as they promised.

Vietnam asked China to immediately set free the 21 Vietnamese fishermen and two fishing vessels seized on March 3.

Vietnam ’s Defence Minister, Gen. Phung Quang Thanh met with Ambassador Franz Jessen, Head of the European Union (EU) delegation to Vietnam in Hanoi .

The name of the country's tallest building, PVN Tower, will be changed after the PVN pulled out of the project.

The UN Security Council demanded that Syria immediately implement a peace plan by special envoy Kofi Annan.

While public universities offer more majors, private institutions are trying to attract new students by offering various incentives.

Laguna tourism area, the largest of its kind in Lang Co bay, in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, will be put into trial operation in early June this year.

A team of traditional opera artists recently delighted a French audience with a classical cheo play during the Festival of Imagination held in Paris's House of World Cultures.

French police were trying Wednesday to negotiate the surrender of a suspected Islamist militant holed up in a flat after shootings that left seven dead, including three Jewish children.