VIETNAM TODAY

Total State budget collection in Jan-Jun showed an increase of 22.8 percent over the same period last year, according to the government's report.

A big park project in Hanoi has been postponed for ten years, leaving thousands of square metres a virtual wasteland.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has received Danish Minister of Education Troels Lund Poulsen who is on a working visit to Vietnam.

The National Archive Centre No. 4 has found documents that shed light on Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos.

Belt-tightening trend to cope with inflation could not hinder the trend for outbound tours, which have surged recently.

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s biggest city, looks ugly because of disorder advertising boards.

Apparently I’m something of an outcast, one of the great uncivilised - academically unwashed, writes DTiNews' JC Smith.

A senior aide to President Barack Obama warned that the US is in the "danger zone" as it is approaching deadline for raising national debt ceiling.

Hundreds of billions in VND, out of the interest rate subsidy programme of 2009, has been misused.

Designer Vo Viet Chung will bring 30 designs to a fashion event in Thailand.

In addition to a golf course approved to be built inside HCM City's Tan Son Nhat Airport, another is planned for Hanoi’s Gia Lam Airport.

Vietnam dropped six places in the International Football Federation's June rankings and now languish in 140th place.

A government decree to reduce power usage has forced Tokyo to sweat out a hot summer.

Fifty-three out of 76 vocational schools and colleges in a nationwide pilot programme have been granted training quality standard certificates.

The income gap between the country’s richest and poorest groups has widened, the General Statistics Office reported.

The California Academy of Sciences said it discovered more than 300 previously unknown animals and plants in the Philippines.

Numerous violations have been found in the trade of low-income housing in Hanoi.

Vietnam has pioneered the development of the Payment for Forest Environment Services programme to protect and preserve natural heritage.

For two superb sets Wednesday, everything looked so routine for Roger Federer, precisely the way it did for so many years at Wimbledon.