VIETNAM TODAY

Ho Chi Minh City experienced a surprise hailstorm on the afternoon of July 4, leaving three injured.

A TV shopping firm was recently found trading copycat products under the same brand name as another trader.

Twenty players of the U16 Vietnamese football team will compete at the U16 Southeast Asian Football Championships in Laos from July 5-21.

Japan's cabinet approved a $24 billion second special budget to finance relief and rebuilding after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

A project to survey coal for excavation in the Red River Delta is drawing experts's concerns about its geological and environment impacts.

Vinh Sang Resort is a beautiful land with a large natural garden in which many fruit trees and canals link together to create wonderful landscapes.

Teacher Do Viet Khoa, famous for denouncing negative actions in the final high school examinations held in Ha Tay, is having a struggling life.

Three students are on a trans-Vietnam walk, which started from the northern coastal city of Hai Phong, to call for environmental protection.

Authorities have requested control on imports of cars, mobile phones, liquor and wine, and cosmetics.

Many pedagogy universities and colleges nationwide have begun to offer more training programmes other than teaching in recent years, said educators.

A French writer is set to launch legal action for attempted rape against former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

An engineer was honoured for revealing serious technical problems in cars produced at Toyota’s plant in Vietnam.

Police in China had detained a man accused of detonating a remote-controlled bomb in a Shanghai supermarket, destroying several lockers.

A nationwide crackdown has begun on sand and gravel extraction which is affecting the flow of rivers, their dyke systems and agricultural land.

Vietravel Marketing and Tourist Company said it will receive nearly 700 visitors from Japan, marking the return of a tourism market with potential for development.

Vietnam is expected to earn a total export revenue of USD84.5-USD85.5 billion in 2011, said the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

A seminar was held in Dong Nai from July 4-5 to raise awareness of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.

Eight high-raking positions in the Vietnam People’s Army have been appointed under a decision by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

Japan's minister in charge of disaster reconstruction said Tuesday he would resign after just a week in the post.