VIETNAM TODAY

The Government has approved an early increase of up to VND 2 million per month in the minimum wage from October 1.

The UK’s leading football team, Manchester United, has signed a three-year partnership with Beeline, Vietnam’s mobile telecoms company.

Hanoi may gather food vendors in the capital city at designated places to ensure better management over food safety.

Prosecutors have filed a motion to dismiss all the sexual assault and attempted rape charges against former IMF chief.

Bau Bang village in Danang is locally-known as a place for recovery of women who were former drug addicts and prostitutes.

A Kien Giang Province court yesterday sentenced a local man to four years in jail and three years on probation for writing articles defaming the Vietnamese state and providing them to foreign websites.

Vietnam’s export turnover to Africa reached US$2.6 billion in the first seven months of this year, up 172 percent from the same period last year.

German police said they had recovered dozens of stolen artworks by European masters valued at around 1.6 million euros with the help of the married couple behind the scam.

Having once been the major power in European and world club football, Italy is rapidly becoming the sick man of Europe in footballing terms.

Encroachment upon railway safety zones has been blamed for causing an alarming increase in the number of railway accidents, prompting authorities to remove illegal crossings.

Smoking is the cause of death of 62 percent of deaths, or around 40,000 people in Vietnam each year, three times the fatality of traffic accidents.

Joelle Schonberg started the day making springrolls and other traditional Vietnamese fare and ended it by mixing massive amounts of concrete.

It may be on the doorstep of a heaving metropolis, but this island remains an undeveloped paradise, writes Craig Tansley.

Moammar Kadafi's whereabouts remain a mystery, but his tanks and snipers take positions in areas of the capital.  

A vehicle travelling 355 km on one litre of petrol won the first prize in a design contest in Hanoi to find the most fuel-efficient vehicles.

Forests and rivers from the Central Highlands’ Dak Nong Province have been heavily disturbed by illegal gold mining of two companies.

Vietnam's increasing reliance on imports of goods and materials from foreign countries, especially China, is a risky move, according to experts.

Along with the night market on the Hang Dao - Dong Xuan pedestrian walkway, Hanoi will have a cultural cuisine ward in the Old Quarter.

Though they are still struggling for livelihood, many workers in Binh Duong Province are sharing the little they have with the less unfortunate.