VIETNAM TODAY

North Korea has invited UN inspectors to monitor a nuclear deal with the United States, insisting the pact remains in force despite its shock announcement of an upcoming satellite launch.

Mobile service providers MobiFone and VinaPhone will merge to strengthen their operations, one official said.

Apple announced it will spend part of its massive cash hoard to pay its first dividend since 1995, and trumpeted that it had sold three million new iPads on the opening weekend.

Police in northern Vietnam have arrested six people for allegedly trafficking 21 women and teenagers to China to work as sex slaves.

A symposium themed, “Air Quality Improvement and Urban Transport: Best Practice and Cooperative Projects” will be held in Hanoi on March 21.

Ho Chi Minh City is set to tighten cooperative ties with Rotterdam and Manila city.

Transport companies have complained that they have been dragging out their existence because of too many kinds of fees, and that the road maintenance fee would kill them outright.

Hundreds of poor students struggling to pay school fees in Nghe An Province have yet to receive their allowances.

Hanoian Nguyen Xuan Lien has spent his savings building a war museum in Quang Binh Province.

A suspected serial killer shot dead three children and a teacher in an anti-Semitic attack on a Jewish school in France, triggering an unprecedented regional terror alert.

Fifteen universities nationwide have received a dispatch from the Ministry of Education and Training, which requests the schools to cancel the recognition for matriculation of thousands of MA course students.

Asia leads the world when it comes to weapon imports, according to a study released Monday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

Recent inspection have revealed several abuses of land use right in Hanoi.

The sixth session of the National Assembly Standing Committee opened in Hanoi on March 19, focusing on contents to improve the legislative body’s operational efficiency.

While “Mui co chay” predictably won Best Picture, action film “Long Ruoi” reaped four awards and “Lost in Paradise” missed all the important ones was not a pleasant surprise for many cinema observers.

The Australian government will provide nearly AUD100,000 to help Vietnam carry out a project in support of lesbians and gay, bisexual and transgender people.

The decentralisation mechanism in foreign direct investment management, which was hoped and create the most favorable conditions to foreign investors, has proven a burden on agencies.

Japan would like to build an urban model of an ecologically environmentally friendly district in Hanoi, said the Japanese Deputy Minister for the Environment, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism, Shogo Tsugawa.

Mitt Romney scored a resounding win in Puerto Rico's Republican primary, gaining momentum in the hotly contested White House race.