VIETNAM TODAY

G7 rich nations vowed tough measures Friday to get the global economy back on track but were short on detail and admitted the problems were so complex.

Italian musician Andera Centazzo will perform in Vietnam from September 13-15 on the 150 th anniversary of unification day of Italia.

Vietnam’s Hoang Pham Tra Mi won the Nuits Pianistiques Piano Contest, one of the main events at France’s Aix En Provence Music Festival.

A more intensive model for voluntary blood donation, called Blood Donation Street, is expected to become a major source of blood next year.

Construction of many schools in Quang Ngai Province has been kept in limbo for years due to a feeble management mechanism.

Doubts have been raised about the feasibility of a project on doubling wild tigers in Vietnam within 10 years.

Roger Federer demanded sweeping changes to the US Open schedule after the Grand Slam tournament headed for a 4th successive Monday finish.

US financial giant Bank of America is considering cutting up to 40,000 jobs, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

Five busy streets in Hanoi will be divided into several lanes starting on September 20, in order to ease traffic.

Police in Thua Thien Hue detected that hundreds of passenger bus drivers have been using fake driver's licenses.

The Report on Global Competitiveness 2011-12 by the World Economic Forum announced that Vietnam ranked 65th on the global competitiveness index.

On the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival, State President Truong Tan Sang has conveyed best wishes to children both at home and abroad.

UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos plans to visit North Korea next month to assess the growing food crisis there, according to a UN spokeswoman.

Vo Chi Cong, former President of the State Council, former Chairman of the National Defence Council and former Deputy Prime Minister, died on Sept. 8 at the age of 99.

Over the past eight months, the Vietnam Red Cross has raised around $7.783 million in support of Japanese earthquake victims.

Local manufacturing firms are struggling to liquidate their output as inventories of various kinds of industrial products are piling up quickly.

The seeds of criminal behaviour needed to be addressed early to avoid more criminality, a former NA member has stressed.

Libya's new de facto premier on Thursday used his first major address in Tripoli to warn that liberation was not yet complete and the hardest battles were yet to come.

Hanoi authorities are seeking ways to reduce prices of low-income houses.