VIETNAM TODAY

Many universities have found it difficult to recruit competent professors, as the best and brightest can make better money elsewhere.

The People’s Court of HCM City has ruled that Indochina Airlines has to pay its $1.3 million debt to the Asian Commercial Bank following the latter’s lawsuit.

Airport officials in South Korea asked VNA to review its process of training and issuing licenses to its pilots after they suspected one VNA pilot of acquiring pilot license ‘inappropriately.’

Vietnam set off on their quest for a champion title at the 26th Southeast Asian Games in Indonesia after defeating the Philippines 3-1 in their opening game on November 3.

The ranks of America's poorest poor have climbed to a record high — 1 in 15 people as the housing bust pushed many inner-city poor into suburbs and other outlying places.

A crackdown on banking secrecy has brought governments 14 billion euros in additional revenue, said OECD chief.

A Japanese film festival themed “Love” will be held in Phu Yen and Ho Chi Minh City in November.

Greek PM George Papandreou insisted he will not resign in the face of a growing party revolt, state television NET reported.

VND3 billion will be invested to combat termites that have been damaging historic houses in Hoi An Ancient Town.

The HCM City Sponsoring Association for Poor Patients received 640 hearing aids to help poor hearing-impaired children on November 2.

The leaders of the world's most powerful economies confronted a new financial crisis as they began a G20 summit with markets plummeting.

One fifth of Bangkok is now under water as Thailand's worst floods in half a century spread through the capital, an official said.

Two children died and their parents seriously injured as their house collapsed after a gas cylinder exploded in Hanoi.

Vietnam will spend $600 million in a lawsuit that aims to regain the Buon Ma Thuot coffee trademark from foreign businesses, said an official.

Hanoi Telecom sent a request to the prime minister seeking interventions in acquisition plans for EVN Telecom.

Vietnam’s chess team is set to win at least three gold medals at the 26th Southeast Asia Games in Indonesia this November.

The domestic fisheries sector has set itself the target of reducing gas emissions by 20% over the next 10 years.

Many NA members called for early passage of the Bill on Demonstrations, saying demonstrations have become a burning social issue that needs to be regulated by a law.

Floodwaters are beginning to recede in the upper reaches of Long Xuyen Quadrangular and Dong Thap Muoi in the Mekong Delta..