VIETNAM TODAY

Several pupils in Thanh Thuy Commune, Thua Thien Hue Province are taking part in a competition on climate change and disaster risk reduction.

Teenagers are exploiting their increased individualism through using swearwords to make an impression.

A Chilean volcano sent ash across South America, forcing thousands from their homes, grounding airline flights in southern Argentina.

The Ministry of Health will coordinate with other government agencies to check for radiation in foods imported from Japan.

The UN's climate chief urged negotiators gathering for new talks over news that global warming could bust a threshold widely considered safe.

Japan has more than doubled its initial estimate of radiation released from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in the week after March 11.

Having been sentenced to 16 years in jail, PMU18's former director will return to court to face further embezzlement charges.

The people’s committee has sold prime land to certain companies without auctions, sometimes at a fifth of the market price.

The bones of an extinct sea cow species that lived about 20 million years ago have been discovered in a cave in the Philippines.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has drawn attention to a sudden spurt in the trade deficit run up by foreign firms.

Apple has unveiled a free service called iCloud that stores music, photos and other content on the Web and shares it across multiple devices.

The border area of Lung Cu on the Dong Van rock plateau is called the rooftop of Vietnam and is legendary for its very special charm.

Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem is leading a Vietnamese delegation to the 10th ASEM Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Hungary.

DTiNews will stage a live, online forum on the best methods for studying English on June 10.

German Falko Goetz will be the head coach of Vietnam ’s national football squad and Olympic team for the next two years.

One hundred and twenty policemen were killed by "armed gangs" in northwest Syria, state television said on Monday.

Enterprises in industrial parks and export processing zones will need a total of 100,000 workers by 2015, according to HCMC Export Processing and Industrial Zones Authority.

Drivers blowing loud air horns in Ho Chi Minh City will face stiffer fines from June 30 under a new government decree.

The space under bridges in HCM City have become mobile markets, the home to homeless people, warehouses and public toilets.