VIETNAM TODAY

Shortage of capital created setbacks for the Traffic Development Plan in HCM City, which is now unable to maintain schedule, said the city Department of Transport.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan asked local authorities nationwide to disseminate methods to prevent the hand-foot-mouth disease to reduce the number of cases.

US officials demanded "concrete results" from trade talks with China on market access for American businesses.

Dozens of residents in Nghe An Province’s Tien Thanh Commune destroyed a pig farm that they blamed for environmental pollution.

President of the State of Israel Shimon Peres will pay an official visit to Vietnam from Nov. 22-26 at the invitation of President Truong Tan Sang.

HCM City’s consumer price index in November was estimated to have increased 0.28% driven by higher food prices.

Global tobacco firm Philip Morris said it is suing the Australian government over a new law requiring all cigarettes to be sold in plain packages.

Thousands of Vietnamese and expatriates flocked to the 18th annual HCM City Consular Club’s Charity Bazaar to raise fund for disadvantaged people.

At least 13 people were killed as security forces tried to clear protesters from Cairo's Tahrir Square, casting a dark shadow over Egypt's first elections.

Thu Thiem tunnel, along with the entire Dong Tay Avenue in HCM City, officially opened to traffic on November 20.

The State Securities Commission admitted that 105 securities companies are too much for a fledgling stock market like Vietnam.

A small ferry carrying around 35 passengers in Nui Thanh district in central Vietnam’s Quang Nam province sank early this morning, killing one pregnant woman.

The 8th General Conference of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific is being held to discuss traditional and non-traditional threats and challenges to peace and stability in the Asia- Pacific region.

Four more gold medals were obtained at the ongoing 26th Southeast Asian Games in Indonesia on November 20.

Three top Khmer Rouge leaders accused of orchestrating Cambodia's "killing fields" face a court as a U.N.-backed tribunal begins their trials.

The Prime Minister has instructed the transfer of EVN Telecom to telecom group Viettel, an official said.

Moamer Kadhafi's spymaster Abdullah Senussi was arrested on Sunday, Libyan officials announced and said that the dead dictator's son captured the previous day would face trial in Libya.

The Quang Nam provincial People’s Committee has approved a VND20 billion project to provide free wireless internet services in the town of Hoi An.

Two people were killed and hundreds injured in Egypt as police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at protesters in a violent countdown to the first elections since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak.