VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnam’s Next Top Model 2011’s qualification heats will be held in HCM City on August 16 and in Hanoi on August 23.

Despite the fall in world crude oil prices, the domestic petrol price may be unchanged in the near future, an official has said.

Police in southern Vietnam have charged three men and one woman for allegedly trafficking people to China to sell their kidneys.

Hanoi’s Department of Planning and Architecture was requested to report on the upgrading of old apartment blocks.

German football great Jurgen Klinsmann drafted into guide the underachieving United States to the 2014 World Cup.

China's first aircraft carrier began its sea trial, the defence ministry said, a move likely to stoke concerns about its military expansion.

As many as 38 percent of young people polled for a survey about uprightness said that they are ready to act without integrity.

The Federal Reserve pledged to hold interest rates near zero for two more years to counter an economy facing increased risks of stalling.

Over 400,000 units of blood were collected across Vietnam in the first half of this year, an agency has said.

A project to build a new resettlement area has remained half-complete after a decade, with nobody to take responsibility.

The country’s defence diplomacy will continue to be implemented comprehensively in the future, Defence Minister Gen. Phung Quang Thanh said.

The State Bank of Vietnam gave the nod to the import of five tonnes of gold to supply the domestic market in an effort to prevent speculation.

The second international conference of victims of AO/dioxin wrapped up with an appeal for people to join hands to support Vietnamese AO victims.

The worst riots in Britain for decades spread to new cities on a fourth night after 16,000 police took to the streets of London.

Many universities have not announced the required minimum marks amid the fear that many students would not enter the schools.

The Thu Bon River basin in Quang Nam Province is considered the lifeblood that has helped raise many generations of residents on both banks.

Local authorities and industrial enterprises are moving ahead with the projects on generating electricity from organic rubbish.

Vietnam flew the ASEAN flag to mark the 44th anniversary of the founding of ASEAN and the 16th anniversary of Vietnam's admission to the bloc.

Riots swept across London and at least three other cities, as PM David Cameron returned early from holiday to tackle one of the worst outbreaks of violence for decades.