VIETNAM TODAY

Tourism and government officials have called for increased efforts aimed at diversifying Hanoi's tourism industry.

A famous YouTube clip of two policemen fighting in HCM City has now been hilariously turned into two “Star Wars” masters fighting each other with lightsabers.

The Japanese Embassy in Vietnam will donate USD250,000 to fund the construction and upgrading primary schools in poor rural areas of the country.

A project plan for Vietnam's largest international airport, approved by the Prime Minister on June 14, was made public in Dong Nai Province today.

Police in London said Friday they have charged almost 600 people with violence, disorder and looting over deadly riots in Britain's capital.

Nearly 100 literary works and newspapers published during the New Poetry movement in the 1930s is being displayed in HCM City.

The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the British Embassy held a ceremony to mark the UK’s financial support for a project to review Vietnam’s business laws.

Rubella has plagued thousands of pregnant women and claimed lives of a great deal of unborn babies.

Vietnam has been actively cooperating with the international community in the fight against cyber crime, an official has said.

Vuon Xoai Ecotourism Park in Dong Nai Province is a peaceful oasis for Saigonese to visit for sightseeing trip on a short weekend break.

Vietnam will continue to attract foreign investment after the crisis in the securities market thanks to its high economic growth, the ADB has said.

The Mexico-Vietnam Friendly Parliamentarians Group declared support for Vietnamese victims of AO/dioxin in their struggle for justice.

Vietnamese-American beauty Pham Thuy Vy Victoria was chosen to represent Vietnam at the Miss World beauty pageant 2011 in London.

Vietnam may increase minimum wage to a maximum of VND2 million per month, VND100,000 higher than what was earlier planned.

Sebastian Coe, chairman of the 2012 Olympic organising committee, expressed confidence Thursday that the riots in the capital over the past week will not tarnish the image of next year's Games.

The State Bank of Vietnam is drafting a decree aimed at regulating the gold market in a flexible manner and controlling gold trading according to the market-based mechanism, said SBV Governor Nguyen Van Binh.

Twenty State enterprises and private companies have been engaging in a project to renovate lakes located in the capital city, but not all residents are satisfied.

Asian stocks opened higher Friday after promising U.S. jobs data helped propel Wall Street up.

190 out of the 312 so called “high-tech” Chinese workers at Nhan Co Aluminum Plant in Dak Nong Province have been employed without any document to prove their qualifications.