VIETNAM TODAY

Japan posted a surprise trade surplus of $897 million in June, the government said as the nation recovers from the impact of the March earthquake.

The People’s Committee of Dak Lak Province plans to set up an elephant sanctuary by 2014 at a total cost of roughly VND58 billion (USD3 million).

The Consumer Price Index increased by 1.32% from the previous month, and up 21.55% on-year, according to the Hanoi Statistics Office.

Michael Phelps arrived in Shanghai with his US team-mates ahead of his bid for another huge medals haul at the world championships.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has raised its voice over the recent complaints of some artists over the state awards.

The UN said that famine has hit two parts of rebel-held Somalia, due to a severe drought affecting over 10 million people in the Horn of Africa.

Up to 6,901 houses have been built for the poor in border areas and on islands over the past 3 years, according to a conference in Hanoi on July 19.

Residents in Tien Giang have protested against the local authority's proposal to earmark land for golf course and industrial park development.

The Vietnam Urban Planning Association has proposed conversion of the century-old Long Bien Bridge into a contemporary art museum.

Embattled media mogul Rupert Murdoch vowed Wednesday that News Corp. would bounce back from the phone-hacking scandal.

Dantri/DTiNews held a live, online forum with the Swiss Education Group on the opportunities in hotel management study in Switzerland.

Vietnamese chess star Le Quang Liem will compete at the 2011 Sparkassen Chess-Meeting to be held from July 21-31 in Dortmund.

After complaining about large losses, the state-owned Vietnam National Petroleum Corp released financial reports that show a profit.

The man who reinvented computers and made PCs a household item in most wealthy nations is now focusing his attention on recasting the WC.

Cat Tien National Park’s director has warned that the park would “die” because of the two hydropower plants to be built on Dong Nai River.

Apple on Tuesday reported that revenue and profit rocketed to record highs in the recent quarter as sales of iPhones and iPads more than doubled.

Tran Thuy Lieu, who burnt her journalist husband to death, may have had an accomplice, police revealed.

Twenty protesters were killed in a clash with police in the ethnically tense northwestern region of Xinjiang, a Uighur exile group said Tuesday.

David Cameron arrived back in Britain to face a gruelling parliamentary examination over the phone-hacking scandal.