VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnam’s wind power capacity is significantly potential, but its growth rate is deferred by many difficulties.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung urged the educational sector to continue management and finance reforms to improve education quality.

Defying a White House veto threat, US lawmakers vote Tuesday on a "Tea Party"-backed plan requiring draconian cuts in government spending.

The 2nd Asia-Pacific Geoparks Symposium opened in Hanoi on July 18 with the participation of 170 scientists from 17 countries.

Japan banned all cattle shipments from Fukushima prefecture due to escalating fears of radiation-tainted beef in its meat distribution chain.

To prepare for the Miss Universe 2011 in September, the first runner-up of Miss Vietnam 2010, Vu Hoang My is working very hard.

VinaCapital and Genting Group have permission to reclaim a large area in Quang Nam Province to build a multi-billion dollar recreation resort.

Police in HCM City have arrested 11 Fillipino people for their involvement in an illegal gambling ring.

Many Chinese traders have enhanced co-operation with Vietnamese partners to boost their buying of products.

Vietnam has succeeded in producing its own vaccine against the Rota virus at only a third of the price of foreign imported drugs.

Dinh Di, 80, from the ethnic Ba Na group, has spent nearly all his life repairing and tuning gongs in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai.

While military officials maintain they are actually tigers, forest officials say they could be dogs.

Art troupes from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia will gather at a music festival to take place in the central province of Quang Tri on July 22-26.

Authorities have hauled up Best Buy company based in HCM City for broadcasting without the requisite clearances and ordered it to stop airing.

After a long stretch with no recorded cases, bird flu has recurred in several localities in Phu Tho and Quang Tri provinces.

Former American cycling star Lance Armstrong has accused a group of US media giants of reporting grand jury information allegedly illegally leaked.

Enterprises in Hanoi's industrial zones managed a turnover of USD1.9 billion between January and the middle of July, an agency said.

Visitors to Dong Thap Province should take time to have a look at Dinh An sleeping mat craft village in Dinh Yen Commune, Lap Vo District.

In the late afternoon, kids play on or around tombs. That’s the life in a hamlet called “xom go ma” (tomb hamlet) in District 8, HCM City.