VIETNAM TODAY

Japan's Honda Motor is recalling more than 300,000 cars worldwide because of a defect in the driver's airbag, the company said Friday.

A culinary festival will be held in Ho Tay Water Park from December 30, 2011 to January 2, 2012 to honour Hanoi’s specialities.

EuroCham has suggested a range of policy recommendations to help improve the Vietnamese investment environment.

Universities with their own financial self-control schemes should have the same rights to set their own tuition fees, a conference heard.

France and Germany will push for a new European Union treaty, President Nicolas Sarkozy declared.

Children at the Birla orphanage village received LEGO toys personally handed over by Danish Crown Prince Frederik Andre Henrik Christian.

The French Development Agency has provided credit worth EUR20 million to help Vietnam implement its climate change adaptation programme.

Social insurance payments will account for 24% of labourers’ total monthly minimum salary starting next year.

Despite huge investment in its restoration, the towers at the historic Cham holy site of My Son are rapidly aging.

Le Quang Liem will be the only representative to compete in the blitz and rapid chess events at the Sportaccord World Mind Games in China.

A well-known Vietnamese-Australian inventor has been nominated as a candidate for the title “Australian of the Year 2012”.

Authorities have agreed to raise the ceiling for one-way fares for the longest domestic route to 5 million VND to offset rising operating costs, according to the Ministry of Transport.

Officials from Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam will discuss the controversial Xayaburi dam in Mekong River next week.

Vietnam and Austria will increase bilateral cooperation in such priority areas as economics, trade, investment, tertiary education and scientific research.

Thailand will issue a passport for its fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra "very soon," the country's foreign minister said Friday.

Senior officials of the Communist Party of China and the Communist Party of Vietnam met in Beijing to discuss the further development of bilateral ties.

The European Union began a nine-day battle over federal-style changes to save the eurozone, with French President Nicolas Sarkozy saying that Europe needs to be "refounded".

A newly released survey seems to have revealed increasing evidence of depression among the nation’s youth.

Only one third of HIV infected children in HCM City are admitted to school due to social discrimination against them.