VIETNAM TODAY

The Ministry of Finance has decided to lower petroleum prices by VND650-VND800 per litre beginning June 7.

Patients have been giving bigger bribes to medical workers at hospitals at higher levels, according to a recent survey.

Chef Do Chi Cong will be the first Vietnamese chef to compete at the prestigious cooking contest Bocuse d'Or Asia in Shanghai this month.

Donor representatives focused their discussions on poverty reduction and natural disaster mitigation in central Vietnam during the mid – term Consultative Group Meeting.

A huge floating dock cast adrift by Japan's killer tsunami has washed up on an Oregon beach, believed to be the biggest piece of flotsam land on US Coast so far.

Samsung vowed to press ahead with the US launch of its newest smartphone, despite a lawsuit filed by rival Apple seeking to block the cutting-edge model.

Despite Lai and her daughter stripping naked to retain their land, it has been decided that their compensation will remain unchanged.

Police in Quang Ngai Province discovered and seized 782 Ensure cans bearing fake labels at a company named Thien An.

A DTiNews reporter took photos of rare dry scenes in An Giang and Dong Thap provinces.

Minister of Planning and Investment Bui Quang Vinh told correspondents on the sideline of the mid-term Consultation Group that Denmark does not officially cut ODA grants yet.

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) will complete all related legal frameworks for the use of plastic money-credit and debit cards, as well as other forms of electronic payment in 2012.

Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien attended the Ministerial Health Leaders’ Forum held by Harvard University in Massachusetts in the US.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong received Liu Yunshan, member of the Communist Party of China’s Central Committee (CPC CC)’s political bureau in Hanoi.

Despite the fall in the import price, petrol price cuts will not be as sharp as price hikes, said the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad "massacred" about 100 people at a village, the opposition Syrian National Council said.

South Korea’s Allkpop website recently reported that Bao Thy, a Vietnamese pop singer, copied the idea of Korean teenage singer HyunA’s “Bubble Pop” clip.

Vietnam will officially deregulate the power market on July 1 to boost competition and reduce the monopoly of the Vietnam Electricity Corporation.

During a five-day joint patrol, the Vietnamese and Chinese navies will together go the rounds in the joint fishing area and practice an anti-pirate maneuver.

The fourth ICFOOD Cup has been held at Chungnam National University in the Republic of Korea, by the Vietnamese Students’ Association and the Korean ICFOOD Company.