VIETNAM TODAY

Tropical storm Haima, the second of its kind to hit Vietnam this season, left 16 dead, four missing and 63 injured by June 26, an agency said.

The Vietnam Women’s Union officially launched the movement to build families with five “no’s” and three “clean’s” at a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of Vietnam Family Day.

Many state-owned giant corporations still carried out their initial public offering as scheduled this year, but most of them went public quietly.

Deputy PM Hoang Trung Hai has highlighted a plan to develop the Nui Coc Lake national tourism area in the northern mountainous province of Thai Nguyen until 2020. 

At least six people were killed when a big rig truck hauling gravel slammed into the side of a California-bound passenger train in the high desert of Nevada, officials said.

The Special Envoy of Vietnam’s high-level leaders met with Chinese State Councillor convey the Vietnamese leaders’ opinions regarding bilateral relations.

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, who is in Cuba following emergency surgery, is in "critical" but stable condition, Miami's El Nuevo Herald reported.

The General Confederation of the Evangelical Church of Vietnam South held a ceremony in HCM City to celebrate 100 years of Protestantism in Vietnam.

A small asteroid the size of a tour bus will make an extremely close pass by the Earth on Monday.

Vietnam is considering an increase in the coal export tax to 20%, from the current 15%; according to the Ministry of Finance.

Finland is home to some of the least traditional sporting contests in the world.

Vietnam’s annual biggest fisheries exhibition will take place in Ho Chi Minh City on June 28-30 with the participation of over 190 exhibitors.

The 2011 Vietnamese Family Festival took place at the Vietnam Exhibition Centre for Culture and Arts in Hanoi to honour the traditional values of Vietnamese families.

Moamer Kadhafi's regime accused NATO of killing 15 more people in strikes on civilian sites in the eastern city of Brega, a claim promptly denied by the alliance.

Despite the grueling and lonely time they have endured, the wives of soldiers in the oil-rig houses still make their efforts to fulfill their duty.

Tu Du Obstetrics Hospital in HCM City wants the Health Insurance Fund to subsidise the care of such children aged between six months and two years.

The Ministry of Education and Training has decided not to re-grade high school students’ graduation tests in 11 Mekong Delta localities.

Vietnam is mulling over confiscating and destroying vegetables carried from Europe in travellers' luggage.

It will take more than two to tango to resolve East Sea issues, as observers urge ASEAN to engage economic powers in dispute settlement.