VIETNAM TODAY

OPEC began a meeting amid uncertainty over the outcome, with clear divisions over whether the cartel should boost production to help revive growth.

For hundreds of years Vietnamese living in coastal areas have thought of the East Sea as home.

Having been in operation for less than one year, Vietnam’s most "modern" museum already is showing its cracks.

Scientists have warned that the water of the Red River may be red no more, since the river is gradually losing silt.

Greenpeace accused Mattel, the US maker of Barbie dolls, of contributing to the wanton destruction of carbon-rich Indonesian forests.

The Vietnam National University, Hanoi, is among Asia’s top 200 universities, according to the 2011 Asian University Rankings by Subject.

Germany on Wednesday signalled hope that the "worst" of a killer bacteria outbreak was over.

Many small shops in Hanoi continue to sell Taro jelly packets, even though New Choice Foods company had recalled the product nationwide.

French finance minister Christine Lagarde arrived in China Wednesday as she pursues a global charm offensive to back her bid to lead the IMF.

Salary and bonus to coaches and athletes in Vietnam will almost double as of July.

The number of foreign arrivals to Hanoi has risen sharply since the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.

Rising food and fuel prices are taking the wind out of the global economy's recovery this year, the World Bank has said.

Phan Thi Mo, one of the top five contestants of Miss Vietnam World 2010, has been invited to take part in the Miss Asia USA 2011 pageant.

A large number of titanium mining firms in Binh Thuan Province are destroying the local environment, water supply and agricultural crops.

The American Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam will, for the first time in Ho Chi Minh City, organise World Blood Donor Day on June 14.

Starting in June, Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park launched a tour from the Chay River to Hang Toi (Dark Cave).

Nintendo provided the first glimpse of a second-generation Wii console designed to dispel notions its system is not up to the standards of "hardcore" videogame players.  

The Government will make it easer for the private sector to access official development assistance through the public-private partnership model.

Germany kept tracing the source of a bacteria outbreak that has killed 24 amid warnings it might never be found.