VIETNAM TODAY

The family of a contestant said that the producer of the Vietnam's Got Talents had arranged the show, the jury is said to be “acting” too much.

Several securities companies have halted operations or changed addresses without notice as a result of a lingeringly gloomy market.

Hanoians face huge difficulties in finding parking for their vehicles after the parking ban on hundreds of streets has taken effect.

Iran's nuclear ambitions could trigger "a new Cold War" more perilous than that between the West and the Soviet Union, the British Foreign Secretary warned.

NA Vice Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan met with a visiting delegation of the Thailand-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Group headed by President Paijit Sree Warakan.

Bird flu experts ruled that research on a mutant form of the virus should be made public.

2012 will be a good year for real estate investors despite the difficulties on the horizon, said real estate service firm CBRE.

The World Bank (WB) will provide Vietnam with financial and technical assistance to restructure State-owned enterprises, said WB Country Director Victoria Kwakwa.

For the first time Vietnamese models performed in the New York Fashion Week. Hoang Thuy and Tuyet Lan impressed the audience by their confidence.

The Vietnamese community is the third largest foreign group in the Czech Republic, according to a new survey.

Syrian security forces carried out their heaviest pounding of Homs in a two-week offensive against the central protest city, an opposition activist on the ground said.

A Vietnamese writer was among eight ASEAN artists granted the Southeast Asian Writers Award 2011 on Thursday.

HCM City's Department of Transport proposed drastic measures to deal with its traffic problems.

The Vietnam Red Cross Association donated USD30,000 to the Philippines on Thursday in the aftermath of tropical typhoon Washi.

Vinashin still owes VND292.148 billion in unpaid debts to the Vietnam Development Bank as of January 31.

A workshop to promote cooperation between Ho Chi Minh City and Osaka city of Japan in managing solid waste took place in Ho Chi Minh City.

Western schoolchildren are up to three years behind those in China's Shanghai and success in Asian education is not just the product of pushy "tiger" parents, an Australian report said.

The Malaysian authorities have legalised 1,416 of more than 13,000 Vietnamese workers who have been working there illegally, the Vietnamese Embassy in Malaysia reported.

Some big banks have started to lower interest rates and more banks are expected to follow suit to cut interest rates by around 1%.