VIETNAM TODAY

Manchester City put a turbulent week behind them with a 4-0 victory at Blackburn as Manchester United rode their luck in a 2-0 win over Norwich.

Mozambique will open an embassy in Vietnam later this year to boost cooperation between the two countries.

Thai President Foods Plc is interested in setting up an instant noodle factory worth one billion baht in Vietnam.

Rampant seaport construction has left a number of them unused and wasted thousands of billion VND.

Universities are really thirsty for the lecturers with high academic titles. Therefore, many bogus and false PhDs have appeared.

Vietnamese Civil Aviation Administration held an airline counter-terrorism drill in Phu Bai airport in Hue City.

All 18 people aboard a plane that crashed on Indonesia's Sumatra island were found dead, an official said.

The Government proposed a monopoly over tobacco production and import to control the supply and reduce tobacco use.

Nearly 10 schools in Tra Vinh Province have built a small-scale waste burning system on campus to replace the previous dumping system.

President of the Mrs World Organisation David Marmel has invited Mrs Congeniality 2005 Doan Thi Kim Hong to chair the jury of the Mrs World 2011 competition.

President of the Mrs World Organisation David Marmel has invited Mrs Congeniality 2005 Doan Thi Kim Hong to chair the jury of the Mrs World 2011.

The US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan was headed on a multi-nation tour through Asia and the Gulf ahead of two major conferences on Afghanistan's future..

Global stocks closed their worst quarter in nearly three years on nagging concerns about the world economy.

The Ho Chi Minh City police have saved 23 ethnic minority children who had been employed illegally at two unlicensed sewing factories.

Anwar al-Awlaqi, an Al-Qaeda leader wanted over attacks in the US, was killed Friday in an air raid in Yemen hailed by President Barack Obama as a "major blow" to terrorists.

Typhoon Nalgae was poised to hit the Philippines on Saturday, threatening more than a million people living in areas still flooded from a previous storm, officials said.

Actress Ly Nha Ky has been nominated as the first ever ambassador for Vietnam Tourism.

Inflation soared unexpectedly across the debt-laden eurozone in September, the EU said on Friday.

District People's Committees in Hanoi have been asked to report on the situation regarding school shortages.