VIETNAM TODAY

Saigon Sky Deck, the city’s first observatory is now open on the 49th floor of Bitexco Financial Tower on Ho Tung Mau Street in HCM City.

CPI increased 14.61 percent during the first seven months of this year, according to figures released by the General Statistics Office.

Truong Tan Sang has been voted in as the new president of Vietnam, but PM Nguyen Tan Dung is on track to stay in his seat.

Vietnamese chess star Le Quang Liem had a good start at the 2011 Sparkassen Chess-Meeting in Germany by two draws with leading world rivals.

Japan's Honda Motor said Monday it would recall about 200,000 passenger cars globally due to defective engine parts.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung has proved his capability to lead the country and overcome many difficulties to ensure social security.

In Quang Nam Province, some poor men became multi-billionaires overnight after lucking upon a large quantity of aloe wood deep in a forest.

Vietnamese team won bronzes at the 52nd International Mathematics Olympiad, said the Department of Examinations and Education Quality Assessment.

The State Audit of Vietnam is looking into the use of the petroleum price stabilisation fund from July 22 to the end of August.

A short supply of public rubbish bins is blamed for a rising tide of bagged and unbagged refuse and litter being dumped in the streets of Hanoi.

Hundreds of gay and lesbian couples excitedly became the first to tie the knot as a New York state law took effect.

Cadel Evans' historic Tour de France win was hailed Monday as one of Australia's finest ever sporting achievements.

A Guinean woman who has accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of trying to rape her in a New York hotel has broken her silence.

HCM City will spend some VND12 trillion (USD583 million) on projects designed to deal with the negative impacts of climate change from now to 2015.

Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik appears before an Oslo judge on Monday, seeking show-trial celebrity.

Hanoi authorities licensed over 260 cyclos to serve tourists but there are thousands of illegal cyclos in the city.

Illegal exploitation continues in Bong Mieu, the largest gold mine in Vietnam, despite efforts by local authorities to stop it.

The White House and top lawmakers have struggled for a deal to save the world's richest country from a disastrous default on its debt.

An economic turmoil has force many furniture makers in the central province of Binh Dinh to reduce operation or shut down this year.