VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnam aims to restructure and renew more than 1,300 state-owned enterprises in the next five years, of which 573 will be equitised.

At least 30 people were killed when a fire engulfed a hospital Friday in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, officials said.

Vietnam’s top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh has held on to his 7th position in the Badminton World Federation’s rankings.

Individuals and organisations who wish to buy airplanes, using public or private funds, must get approval from the PM.

A bid to change the EU treaty to resolve the eurozone debt crisis foundered at a crunch summit on a British refusal to sign up.

The annual Young Artists’ Fine Arts Festival in Hanoi has been rocked by scandal.

The Prime Minister issued a circular on managing the real estate market, which focuses on the measures to be taken to increase liquidity.

Vietnam attaches great importance to the development of cooperative relations with European Union countries, including the UK.

A woman living in a remote area in Soc Trang southern province has to live a life totally cut off from the outside world due to her rare condition – thousands of tumors on her body.

Divided EU leaders battled over treaty change Friday at a crunch summit on the debt crisis undermined by an ECB warning that there will be no big boost in rescue funding.

The World Bank estimated that Vietnam's overseas remittances will reach nearly USD9 billion in 2011, slightly higher than the figure last year.

A 4.5 metres pine tree made of 2,500 secondhand cell phones is now on display at an electronic store in My Tho city, the southern province of Tien Giang.

Munich Re, the world's leading reinsurer, said that the worst flooding in Thailand for decades would cost it about 500 million euros ($671 million) before tax.

A Vietnamese elementary school won first prize in the Asia-Pacific emerging countries category of an Intel-sponsored award for educational innovation.

Russia's opposition on Thursday defiantly vowed to stage a mass protest in Moscow at the weekend contesting the results of election.

Hanoi ranks 41st in Asia and 217th in the world among most expensive cities, ECA International has announced.

HCM City Police has issued regulations to limit the amount of money held by traffic police while on duty to just VND100,000.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong laid wreaths at the Independence Monument and the Vietnam Friendship Monument in Cambodia.

Las Vegas Sands plans to build a tourism complex in Ho Chi Minh City at a cost of more than USD2 billion.