VIETNAM TODAY

A lot of well-known tourism sites throughout the country have become vast dumping grounds.

A series of Vietnamese-made cartoons entitled “Say Hi to Pencil” has been aired on Ho Chi Minh City Television at 6.20pm on every Monday and Thursday.

The Consumer Price Index in major cities has continued to drop this month due to the impacts of falling prices and lower purchasing power.

Rupert Murdoch has resigned as director of a number of companies behind British newspapers, a News International spokeswoman said.

Nasdaq OMX Group Incplans to pay out $62 million in cash to firms that lost money in Facebook Inc's bungled initial public offering in May.

More than 80% of primary school students in Hanoi and HCMC are weak at analyzing and setting problems while they only have booklore.

Hanoi proposed a standby land fund for moving headquarters of ministries and agencies to suburban areas.

The MIT will review 318 hydropower projects in the master plan for power development and eliminate schemes whose operations are deemed ineffective, behind schedule and harmful.

Former Olympic gymnast Nadia Comaneci and ex-basketball star John Amaechi will carry the Olympic flame as it begins a seven-day tour of London on Saturday.

The Prime Minister has approved an urgent action plan through 2020 to save the elephant population in Vietnam.

The Ministry of Transport Inspectorate uncovered serious violations in the management and licensing of parking lots.

Syrian forces have launched an all-out assault on opposition strongholds in Damascus, after rebels seized crossings on the Iraq and Turkey borders amid a heavy death toll.

Steps are being taken to shift a polluting coal plant in the centre of Ha Long City to a new site seven kilometres away.

The Ministry of Information and Communications will impose a ban on importing second-hand electronic devices.

The unmanned Japanese spacecraft HTV-3 left the Tanegashima Space Centre on July 21, bringing five small satellites, including Vietnam’s F-1, into orbit.

Cambodia’s Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong announced ASEAN’s principles on the East Sea in Phnom Penh.

Hanoi’s consumer price index (CPI) for July was 0.29 percent lower than that last months, but 4.64 percent higher when compared to the same period last year.

A masked gunman in full body armour opened fire at an US movie theatre in a bloodbath which left at least 12 dead and nearly 60 injured.

The lending interest rate of 15% per annum will be maintained for at least one year, said the State Bank of Vietnam Governor.