VIETNAM TODAY

The property market is likely to witness more mergers and acquisitions in the next 12 months if it continues facing capital shortage.

Vietnam’s 1A National Highway has been nominated as the world’s best cycling route by ‘Lonely Planet’, a travel guidebook.

The first buses in Vietnam using energy-efficient fuel made their debut on August 26 in HCM City.

FDI projects in Vietnam have disbursed a total of $7.3 billion in the first eight months of 2011, said the Foreign Investment Department.

Vietnam’s first oil refinery Dung Quat has resumed operation after temporarily halting for maintenance, an official has said.

Hurricane Irene zeroed in on land, losing some power but still whipping up trouble. More than 2 million people were told to move to safer places.

Fabregas was on target two minutes from time after coming on as a substitute just eight minutes earlier.

The court of Palawan province of the Philippines released 85 Vietnamese fishermen, said the Vietnamese Embassy in the country.

Vietnam’s agro-forestry-fishery export turnover reached USD16.4 billion in the first eight months of this year, a year-on-year rise of 34.2 percent.

Hurricane Irene closed in on the Atlantic coast on Friday, triggering emergency preparations that included unprecedented evacuations and mass transit shutdowns in New York City.

After being struck by strong winds and rough waves yesterday afternoon, a fishing boat working off Con Dao Island with five fishermen on board was submerged and gradually sank.

Vietnam is finding ways to lower deposit rates in order to drag lending interest rate down in an effort to stimulate lending.

Tripoli began to look like a solidly rebel-held city on Friday, the calmest day in the capital since Gadhafi's opponents swept in.

Apple's new chief executive Tim Cook has been awarded one million shares in the company, a bonus worth more than $383 million at the current stock price.

Brazil, South Africa, India and China called Friday on industrialized nations to step up their commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at a key UN climate summit later this year.

Over three million Vietnamese families are living under the poverty line, accounting for 14.2% of the country’s households.

Groundwater levels continue to plunge throughout the Central Highlands, even as its quality takes a hit due to pollution, a study has found.

Millions of people on the US east coast braced Friday for Hurricane Irene, a massive storm officials fear will cause widespread flooding.

Hanoi’s price-stabilisation programme meets only 10% of consumer demand, said a local official.