VIETNAM TODAY

The Grand National Party of the Republic of Korea always sought to further enhance its relationship with the Communist Party of Vietnam, its Secretary General said.

Taiwan's HTC Corp. accused Apple of patent infringement on Tuesday in the latest salvo in an ongoing legal battle between the smartphone giants.

The Vietnam Anti-Corruption Initiative (VACI) 2011 was launched on August 16 by the Government Inspectorate and the World Bank (WB) in Hanoi.

Many streets in Ho Chi Minh City have tangled bunches of electric and cable wires, posing threat to city residents.

The new tax rates on second-hand cars imported into Vietnam have taken effect on all the country’s border crossings begining from August 15.

The short-term projected shrimp hatchery areas in Quang Nam province have encroached on the roads and polluted the environment.

The second Vietnam Rice Festival will take place in Soc Trang Province on November 8-11 this year to glorify the commodity, the organisers announced.

Hand-foot-mouth disease has plagued 32,500 residents and killed 81 people in Vietnam, the Ministry of Health said.

President Barack Obama has told Republicans to stop playing games that hurt the US economy, but his foes mocked his "Magical Misery" tour.

A lot of admirable achievements were made in the last 2011 university enrolment season, which shows the great talents of Vietnamese people.

Four masterminds in a major drug trafficking ring in Bac Giang were sentenced to death, with 8 others receiving life sentences.

The Hanoi's traffic safety steering committee proposed to increase the fee for automobile and motorcycle parking.

The HCM City's Ballet and Symphony Orchestra will entertain the city this week with a gala performance by Vietnamese and foreign talents.

Cash-strapped Lao Cai Province has had to halt desperately needed renovation work on schools and residential accommodation.

The United Nations will provide Hoi An in Quang Nam Province with technical assistance to help turn the locality into an ecological city.

Vietnam's sovereign debt rose to $32.5 billion in 2010, an increase of 16.7 percent from the end of 2009, the Ministry of Finance reports.

Pyramid schemes have been taking advantage of poverty-stricken ethnic minority people in Kon Tum Povince.

A course on high-level political theory for 20 officials from the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party opened in Hanoi on August 15.

Dr. Le Hoang Minh, director of the Tumor Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City said that a 4 member team of American experts had accepted the challenge to operate on 31-year-old Nguyen Duy Hai who is suffering from an 80 kilogram tumor growth in his right leg.