VIETNAM TODAY

The first traditional eco-friendly bamboo longhouse, sponsored by World Wildlife Fund, was inaugurated in Ta Lai village in Tan Phu District in the southern province of Dong Nai.

Universities and junior colleges complained that the rigid enrollment regulations would put big difficulties for them; but the Ministry of Education and Training said it “wont’s make concessions.”

The BBC Television has covered cruise safety in Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay.

A Moroccan immigrant was arrested as he tried to carry out an Al-Qaeda suicide bombing at the US Capitol, under the watch of the FBI in a sting operation, officials said.

The family of a contestant said that the producer of the Vietnam's Got Talents had arranged the show, the jury is said to be “acting” too much.

Several securities companies have halted operations or changed addresses without notice as a result of a lingeringly gloomy market.

Hanoians face huge difficulties in finding parking for their vehicles after the parking ban on hundreds of streets has taken effect.

Iran's nuclear ambitions could trigger "a new Cold War" more perilous than that between the West and the Soviet Union, the British Foreign Secretary warned.

NA Vice Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan met with a visiting delegation of the Thailand-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Group headed by President Paijit Sree Warakan.

Bird flu experts ruled that research on a mutant form of the virus should be made public.

2012 will be a good year for real estate investors despite the difficulties on the horizon, said real estate service firm CBRE.

The World Bank (WB) will provide Vietnam with financial and technical assistance to restructure State-owned enterprises, said WB Country Director Victoria Kwakwa.

For the first time Vietnamese models performed in the New York Fashion Week. Hoang Thuy and Tuyet Lan impressed the audience by their confidence.

The Vietnamese community is the third largest foreign group in the Czech Republic, according to a new survey.

Syrian security forces carried out their heaviest pounding of Homs in a two-week offensive against the central protest city, an opposition activist on the ground said.

A Vietnamese writer was among eight ASEAN artists granted the Southeast Asian Writers Award 2011 on Thursday.

HCM City's Department of Transport proposed drastic measures to deal with its traffic problems.

The Vietnam Red Cross Association donated USD30,000 to the Philippines on Thursday in the aftermath of tropical typhoon Washi.

Vinashin still owes VND292.148 billion in unpaid debts to the Vietnam Development Bank as of January 31.