VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnam has one of the largest per-capita smoking rates in the world, and forecasts 70,000 deaths per year by 2030.

A bomb was defused near Dublin ahead of a historic state visit by Britain's Queen Elizabeth to Ireland starting Tuesday, Irish police said.

Sa mu, known as Cumunninghamia lanceolata trees, shrouded in a thick mist of the mountain and forest looks like a water-colour painting.

Thirty lacquer paintings by Vietnamese-German artist Khai Doan are on display in an exhibition entitled Dipolar at the Goethe Institute in Hanoi.

A workshop to be given by the British Council will ask the question of how Vietnam should market itself to the rest of the world.

Steel mills can be operational for up to 50 years longer with upgrades, which could be better than building new ones.

IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn denied sexually assaulting a New York hotel chambermaid, but the judge turned down his $1 million bail offer.

Physicist Stephen Hawking believes there is no God and that humans should seek to live the most valuable lives they can.

The Vietnamese embassy to Japan attended a charity fair raising relief funds for victims of the powerful earthquake and tsunami on March 11.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Department was asked to inspect the experimental breeding of tigers to and make a survey of the animal.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung kicked off construction of two parts of the southern coastal corridor road project.

Eurozone finance ministers named Italy's Mario Draghi on Monday as their chosen successor to head the European Central Bank come October.

Many Vietnamese producers can not buy materials in the domestic market, giving the way to foreign companies.

Is it worth life in a wheelchair to take a funny photo to impress somebody you don't know on the Internet?

Some people have performed tricks to earn money from Facebook, including impersonation.

US director Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life" finally got to Cannes on Monday.

The storm over the IMF chief's sex assault case threw a giant cloud Monday over a European finance ministers' meeting.

Child injury accidents are becoming a global problem that results in 2,000 fatalities every day.

Intel, Dell and Yahoo! Vietnam will tie up with local firms to provide a series of career path guide programmes for Vietnamese students.