VIETNAM TODAY

Arte, a cultural television channel of France and Germany, is shooting a film about the iconic turtle in the Hoan Kiem Lake of Hanoi, later this month.

The Education for Nature has launched a film making competition called “Say No to Bear Gall” to encourage Vietnamese people to protect bears in Vietnam.

The recent bankruptcy of three seafood businesses has resulted in great losses of more than VND200 billion for hundreds of farmers in the Mekong Delta, according to preliminary statistics.

Vietnam continues to record high malnutrition rates while the number of obese people continues to rise, an expert said.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung said that a united, strong and closely linked ASEAN is the strategic goal of all member countries.

French police swooped on suspected radical Islamists in pre-dawn raids for the second time in less than a week, arresting 10 people, a source close to the investigation said.

Hanoi needed to focus on a master plan to develop its education system and school network towards 2020 with a vision towards 2030.

China's Yunnan Province wants to increase the exchange of visits with HCM City to tighten the friendship as well as boost trade and investment cooperation, especially in tourism, an official said.

Street food vendors are earning tens of millions of VND every month with minimal financial outlays.

Republican Mitt Romney notched a huge presidential primary triple win, strengthening an already compelling case that he is the presumptive nominee in the battle for the White House.

Deputy PM Hoang Trung Hai urged relevant agencies to prepare and hand over land for the project to build a large petrochemical complex in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province.

Haiphong authority has come to a final decision on the case involving the forcible removal of a farmer from his land in Tien Lang District.

Coach Mai Duc Chung of the U22 team has scheduled a training session in Europe this June to help the team prepare for the Asian Under-22 Football Championships 2013 qualifiers.

Local people in Gia Lai continue to drink contaminated water from local rivers while turning away from the wells supported by the UN.

At least two tornadoes ripped across northern Texas, flipping huge trucks like toys, tearing off roofs and grounding flights but apparently causing only minor casualties.

The 2012 Coconut Festival themed “Ben Tre on the road to integration and development” will take place in the Mekong Delta province between April 5 and 10.

ORBIS launched its fourth ORBIS Flying Eyes Hospital in the central city of Da Nang, aiming to help improve capacity for ophthalmological doctors in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

Ngo Thi Kim Cuc is known for her collection of 3,000 cultural exhibits collected from ethnic groups in the Central Highlands region.

Facebook fired back at Yahoo! with a countersuit charging that the Internet pioneer is violating the social network's patents.