VIETNAM TODAY

Rising food and fuel prices are taking the wind out of the global economy's recovery this year, the World Bank has said.

Phan Thi Mo, one of the top five contestants of Miss Vietnam World 2010, has been invited to take part in the Miss Asia USA 2011 pageant.

A large number of titanium mining firms in Binh Thuan Province are destroying the local environment, water supply and agricultural crops.

The American Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam will, for the first time in Ho Chi Minh City, organise World Blood Donor Day on June 14.

Starting in June, Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park launched a tour from the Chay River to Hang Toi (Dark Cave).

Nintendo provided the first glimpse of a second-generation Wii console designed to dispel notions its system is not up to the standards of "hardcore" videogame players.  

The Government will make it easer for the private sector to access official development assistance through the public-private partnership model.

Germany kept tracing the source of a bacteria outbreak that has killed 24 amid warnings it might never be found.

Vietnam Oil and Gas Association strongly opposed the acts of Chinese marine surveillance vessels.

According to real estate experts, homebuyers in the capital are paying far more than HCM City residents despite lower per capita incomes.

Vietnam is forecast to earn $8 billion from exporting aquatic products in the next 10 years, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

European Union agriculture ministers are holding emergency talks in Luxembourg on the bacteria crisis that has left 23 dead.

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.