VIETNAM TODAY

It is necessary to give more funding to vocational training programme for rural workers in the 2011-2020 period, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

An earthquake rocked a vast swathe of northeastern India and Himalayan states, causing at least 36 deaths.

Gender equality is shrewd economics as well as a human right, the World Bank said on Monday in a report.

'Are you too shy to take the mike during karaoke with your friends?' 'Train your voice and win over the audience in just 4-6 months!'

Ho Chi Minh City is considering a plan to charge a toll on all private cars driving into the city.

More cases of protests by residents in northern provinces against environment polluters have occurred with a cement plant blocked and numerous trucks carrying iron ore intercepted.

Nearly 200 people gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, for a “Night of Heart” to raise funds for Vietnamese children suffering from Agent Orange related heart disease.

A 6.9-magnitude earthquake has hit northeast India, killing at least 19 people, including three caught in a wall collapse at the British Embassy in neighbouring Nepal.

Two ships of Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force, with 174 officers and crew on board anchored at Tien Sa Port in the central city of Da Nang.

Swiss bank UBS increased the amount it said it had lost on rogue trades to $2.3 billion and gave details of how a trader concealed his risk exposure.

An Egyptian court has sentenced one of Hosni Mubarak's cabinet ministers to three years in prison after convicting him of corruption.

After nine months in captivity, the bulk carrier MV Hoang Son Sun and her crew of 24 were released by Somali pirates.

Work began on the 1,120-MV Mong Duong 2 thermal power plant in Cam Pha town in the northern province of Quang Ninh on September 16.

Floodwaters on the upper reaches of the Mekong River are flowing above the danger mark of level two for the last few days.

The death toll rose to nine in an air race crash in Reno as investigators determined that several spectators were killed on impact.

Vietnamese National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung on Sept. 17 met with Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni and paid a courtesy visit to PM Hun Sen.

Ninh Binh will focus on developing two main kinds of tourism – ecological and cultural-spiritual, a provincial tourism official has said.

Danang plans to spend about VND437 billion to assist people with disabilities in the city over the next five years, one official said.

The unemployment rate tends to increase as enterprises have laid off workers in the context of high inflation and low purchasing power.