VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnam is striving to achieve a balance of trade by 2020 and a total import-export turnover three times higher than in 2010, with an average per capita income of over $2,000.

Authorities of the central province of Binh Dinh plan to deploy nets to stop sharks from approaching swimming beaches after at least 6 tourists were attacked there.

The PM requested agencies to assist in lowering the rate of students who don't attend university for financial reasons.

Growing demands for tough UN Security Council action on Syria are putting increasing pressure on Russia's diplomatic shield around President Bashar al-Assad.

Vietnam attaches a great deal of importance to fostering solidarity, friendship, mutual trust and comprehensive co-operation with Cuba.

Vietnamese garment and footwear markers are seeking new opportunities to approach small and medium-sized distributors in the US.

Vietnam and Australia should promote economic, trade and investment linkage as well as accelerate the implementation of their action programme for 2010-2013.

The State Bank of Vietnam decided again lower the ceiling for deposit interest rates by 1% across the board, effective April 11.

Chiem Hoa hydropower station will soon become operational with its first turbine going into operation later this month, after nearly three years of construction, announced the project’s management board.

Hanoians continue to worry that even modest amounts of rain would flood the city.

The children’s choir of the Paris National Opera Orchestra will give two performances at the Hanoi Opera House on April 18 and 19.

The global banking group called on holdout creditors to sign on to the deal, saying it would help Greece restore its financial viability.

South Koreans went to the polls in closely contested parliamentary elections that are seen as a key test of sentiment ahead of a presidential vote in December.

Vietnam attaches great importance to strengthening the friendly relations, solidarity, mutual trust and comprehensive cooperation with Cuba, says Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.

John Jacob Astor IV went down with the ship in 1912. But at the St. Regis, one of Manhattan's oldest luxury hotels, the aristocratic sensibilities of the Gilded Age remain intact.

Advertising companies that are ordered to downsize and lower their billboards have sought the city Party Committee’s intervention to change the rule that will cost them a fortune.

The construction of a boarding school, a gift from the Vietnamese government, began in Phonsavan district, in Xieng Khouang province.

Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik was sane when he killed 77 people last summer in attacks he saw as punishing "traitors" who favored immigration, a psychiatric team said on Tuesday.

Two public school teachers and a school administrator are sharing the spoils of last month's record Mega Millions jackpot, Maryland Lottery officials said Tuesday.