VIETNAM TODAY

Cory Dung Tran, a Vietnamese-origin fashion designer in New York, said that the winner of the Vietnam’s Next Top Model 2011, Hoang Thuy has conditions to become an international model.

A string of violent storms scratched away small towns in Indiana and cut off rural communities in Kentucky as an early season tornado outbreak killed more than 30 people.

Authorities in Thua Thien Hue Province have instructed Hue, the former imperial citadel, to take immediate steps to preserve its 150 ancient garden houses as part of preservation project.

The national tourism administration will receive suggestions on the amendment and supplement to tourism policies from now until June for submission to the National Assembly.

After 2 re-investigations, the Long An Province People’s Procuracy has issued the 3rd indictment that confirmed a woman’s confession that she killed her husband last January.

Vietnamese and Chinese Foreign Deputy Ministers opened a hotline between the two Ministries of Foreign Affairs.

Thousands of Australians were ordered to evacuate their homes in Sydney's northwest and elsewhere in New South Wales state as heavy rainfall flooded rivers and waterways.

The Ministry of Finance has decided to slash gas import taxes to zero percent from a previous 5% beginning from March 2.

Market experts have said they expect the consumer price index growth rate to fall to 0.4-0.5% in March due to lower food prices, purchasing power and input prices.

Petrol stations in central Thua Thien-Hue Province have closed in recent days in the belief that petrol prices will surge.

Goals for developing the nation's stock market were announced yesterday during a conference held by the State Securities Commission in Ha Noi.

The number of HIV-infected people has decreased over the past four years to nearly 200,000 in 2011.

Senior officials of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China gathered on March 2 to review solutions to strengthen relations.

At least six people were killed and one small town was "gone" as more than six dozen tornados tore across the central US.

Vietnam retailers are rapidly securing market share in the domestic retail industry.

“Cohabiting” has become the familiar concept to many students nowadays. Therefore, the existence of a “pregnant student hamlet” in the university village does not surprise anyone.

SOS Children’s Villages International will help to build another similar village as well as a SOS pre-school costing USD2.5 million in Pleiku, in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai.

The European Union is keen on bilateral free trade agreement negotiations with Vietnam towards a comprehensive Vietnam-EU FTA in future, said European Commission Trade Spokesperson, John Clancy.

An academic issued a warning after the announcement by Las Vegas Sands that it plans to build casinos in Vietnam.