VIETNAM TODAY

China raised a key interest rate Wednesday for a third time this year as it tries to cool surging inflation.

For many less fortunate students in Thanh Hoa province, summer vacation is a time to earn extra money by shelling shrimp.

The world needs $1.9 trillion in green technology investments a year, with over half of that sum necessary for developing countries," the UN said.

Many seafood firms have reportedly bullied catfish farmers by breaching contracts thanks to certain adroitly-crafted escape clauses.

Vietnamese athletes Ngo Huu Ky Phong and Le Thanh Cong both won gold medals at the Special Olympics World Summer Games Athens 2011.

Influential US artist Cy Twombly, who died aged 83, was a key figure in the post-war abstract art world with a career spanning six decades.

A festival featuring cuisines from the North, the South and the Central of Vietnam is open today, July 6, in the central province of Phu Yen.

A rockslide in Nghe An province quarry caused one dead and seven seriously injured.

About 200 people drowned in the Red Sea when a boat carrying migrants to Saudi Arabia sank off the Sudanese coast, Sudanese media say.

A Swiss-funded programme to improve public services in Cao Bang and Hoa Binh provinces has been extended 4 years with total USD14 million budget.

The latest "Pirates of the Caribbean" blockbuster has crossed the billion-dollar mark at the global box office, Disney said Tuesday.

A bogus company in Danang has cheated many people through its "win-a-car programme", taking up to $970 from each.

Vietnam has decided to delay execution of the condemned by lethal injection instead of the firing squad until September.

The World Trade Organisation ruled Tuesday against China's export restrictions on raw materials.

Vietnam’s Law on Food Safety and Hygiene is expected to help tighten control over fruit and vegetable imports.

Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group will exploit five more oil fields in order to produce 23 million tonnes of oil for this year, said an official.

Japan will conduct a "stress test" on all its nuclear plants following the crisis at the tsunami-struck Fukushima Daiichi plant, Japanese media said.

The tourism industry has earned VND62 trillion from almost 2.97 million international tourists and 17.5 million local holidaymakers in the first half of 2011.

Vietnamese -French artist Nguyen Le will bring his world music and jazz to the Music on the Roof show at the Rooftop Bar, in Hanoi, on July 12-13.