VIETNAM TODAY

Nha Trang City pulled out all the stops for its Sea Festival, as crowds were entertained by a colourful street carnival.

UN food agency called for greater use of environmentally sustainable techniques by poor farmers in order to increase crop intensity.

A football tournament for the Vietnamese students in the summer of 2011 wrapped up in Moscow on June 12.

A Vietnamese agency has made public 11 national records at the closing ceremony of the Quang Binh Province’s Cultural-Tourism Week 2011.

International donors pledged $4.3 billion to vaccinate nearly 250 million children against life-threatening diseases at a London conference.

Vietnamese people have always been inventive when it comes to finding ways to get things done.

A shipment of over 9,575 tonnes of coal from Indonesia arrived at the Cai Lai seaport in the southern province of Dong Nai on June 13.

A top secret US government report into the Vietnam War has been officially released.

The time for cheerful amateurism is over, and Vietnamese businesses and state agencies are going to have to bite the bullet, writes DTiNews' JC Smith.

A workshop themed “Sweden-Vietnam partnership in sustainability” was held in the central city of Danang on June 6.

To defend Vietnam’s waters and islands, the naval forces have regular practice and are always ready to fight for the country’s sovereignty.

In the struggling to defend the country’s sovereignty in the East Sea, there are great contributions from normal people called barefoot heroes.

Rivals to lead the IMF lit into French favorite Christine Lagarde, with one suggesting she had conflicting interests.

The Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations on June 13 sent a letter to the China People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries. 

Britain and Bill Gates joined forces to pledge more than half of the $3.7 billion sought to vaccinate nearly 250 million children against preventable diseases.   

Four residents in Quang Tri Province have put up VND1.5 billion to build a pontoon bridge, facilitating access for thousands of local residents.

Vietnamese health authorities have detected an additional 19 beverage products imported from Taiwan, which are contaminated with the toxic DEHP chemical.  

The IMF's executive board meets Monday as the campaign to find a new chief reels from the unexpected twist of a dark horse candidacy.

Vietnamese authorities have decided not to cut petroleum prices but have hiked import taxes on some products.