VIETNAM TODAY

Popular US restaurant brand names such as Pollo Tropica, Round Table Pizza, and Applebee's are eying franchise openings in Vietnam.

Pakistani police rescued 45 students found chained in the basement during a raid on an Islamic seminary in Karachi City, police said.

Vietnam has made little use of solar power development potential due to a lack of a detailed roadmap and incentive policies.

The Vietnam Register is set to order motorbike manufacturers and assemblers to review their entire production process following recent several incidents.

Saigon FC, a new football club, made its debut in Ho Chi Minh City on December 12.

Vietnam is on the path to judicial reform and is willing to share its experience with Laos, said President Truong Tan Sang.

Education and Training Department in Nghe An Province has found that 31 out of 113 inspected schools overcharged their students.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment proposed a moratorium on the establishment of new state-owned economic groups.

Three injured students died in a hospital in east China's Jiangsu Province early Tuesday, the local government said, bringing the death toll in Monday's school bus accident to 15.

Diplomats are gathering in Hanoi for the 27th diplomatic conference to discuss ways to assist the country's development.

Dao Cong Thang, head of the Quy Hop Forest Management Center, was arrested for his participation in smuggling wood on a truck, the local police said.

Canada on Monday became the first country to formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol.

Syrians voted Monday in municipal elections as security forces pushed a deadly crackdown on dissent that the United Nations said has killed more than 5,000 people.

Since the start of this school year, a veteran in Dong Thap Province, has been offering free lunches to nearly 100 students.

EU will prioritise boosting economic and trade relations with Vietnam, especially speeding up negotiations on its Free Trade Area.

Farmers in the Mekong Delta have created many special products for the lunar New Year, such as wine-gourds and gold-bar shaped pomelos, squared watermelons.

32 photos that entered the finale of the Masterpiece Photo Contest 2011 are now on display in HCM City.

Vietnamese tuna has been exported to 87 markets, said Vietnam Association of Seafood Export and Processing.

Police in Ha Tinh Province seized a car with fake registration number plates transporting nearly 400 kilos of live pangolins.