VIETNAM TODAY

Sapa ancient rock field, which is being proposed as UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site, is in a state of serious deterioration.

Hundreds of primary school students in Chu Van An Primary School in northern Haiphong City will no longer have to carry heavy bags to school this year.

A Vietnamese cargo ship manned by 23 sailors went missing, while traveling from Indonesia to China.

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg visited some Tay ethnic villages in Thanh Phu and Ban Ho communes, Sapa district, Lao Cai province on December 26.

The death toll from killer floods in the Philippines surged by more than 200 on Tuesday, more than a week after the disaster struck.

The Vingroup's Chairman is still the richest investor on the Vietnamese stock market, with assets of more than VND17 trillion.

Vietnam welcomed the six millionth foreign visitor in 2011 in the northern province of Quang Ninh.

One of Indonesia's most active volcanoes erupted Tuesday, spewing clouds of ash and panicking villagers but no evacuation has been ordered so far, a government vulcanologist said.

President Truong Tan Sang received 90 young entrepreneurs, who are delegates to the 4 th Congress of Young Entrepreneurs’ Association (YEA) for the 2011-2014 term.

The Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee met in Hanoi to discuss a number of important issues related to Party building and infrastructure development.

Brazil has overtaken Britain as the world's sixth largest economy, a London-based research group said.

A first team of Arab League monitors landed in Syria to monitor a deal to end nine months of deadly violence.

Le Huynh Thuy Ngan has entered the top 20 of the Miss Tourism Queen International beauty pageant, being held in China.

The Vietnam Football Federation will employ a domestic coach if it sacks the German coach, Falko Goetz, said the federation chairman.

Malaysian wildlife authorities said the capture of a young female Borneo Sumatran rhino had given them a last chance to save the highly endangered species.

Since Vietnam and Japan have yet to sign any agreements to officially import Kobe beef, any shipments of the luxury beef caught entering Vietnam will be destroyed, said an official.

South Korea still requires a large number of Vietnamese guest labourers despite some minor labour issues, the Vietnamese envoy to that country has said.

Vietnamese taekwondo martial artists have finalised their preparations for the coming London Olympics next August.

Thousands of people in Quang Ngai Province had their lives interrupted after giving up their land for a hydro power project.