VIETNAM TODAY

Greece was to begin talks on forming an emergency government to drag itself out of political stalemate.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade will allow oil and gas wholesalers to reduce the minimum petrol import quota in 2011 by a million tonnes.

The Hanoi Transportation Department has outlined a plan to build an automatic bus ticket system (Q-Ticket).

Harmful carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels made their biggest ever annual jump in 2010, showed the US Department of Energy's world data.

Vietnam was named as host of the 28th Asian Advertising Congress (AdAsia) in 2013 at AdAsia Congress 2011 in New Delhi , India , on Nov. 2.

The government has decided to uplift the living standards of the people of ethnic minority groups in the central highland region by providing more educational facilities from 2011-2015.

Vietnam will effectively use loans provided by the World Bank (WB), Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said on Nov. 4.

Greek PM George Papandreou won a nail-biting confidence vote in parliament early Saturday after vowing to start talks to form a government of national unity in the crisis-hit country.

The 8th ASEAN justice ministers’ meeting kicked off in Phnom Penh to debate and decide on a number of legal instruments for ASEAN joint implementation.

The leaders of the world's top economic powers forced Europe to take measures to stop Italy following Greece into the abyss of debt and agreed to boost the IMF's war chest.

China has presented $30,000 to the Vietnam Red Cross Society to support flood victims in the Mekong Delta.

A lot of students of Dip Village’s School in Kon Tum Province still go to school every day, but they do not know why they should do that.

The People’s Committee of Dak Lak Province held a meeting to discuss ways to protect the brand rights of Buon Ma Thuot coffee brand.

The Republic of Korea will recruit Vietnamese guest workers again, said the Ministry of Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs.

A restriction on the space devoted to advertising by online newspapers could seriously affect their revenues, forcing many to close.

Four miners died and 50 were left trapped in a central China coal mine, officials said Friday.

USAID announced two five-year programmes to support Vietnam implementing a sustainable response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Japan's government agreed to give the operator of the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant $11.5 billion in aid.

Issues relating to environmental and ecological changes were the subject of the Vietnam Press Cartoon contest, launched nationwide on November 3.