VIETNAM TODAY

Storms spawning tornados tore through central and southern United States, causing at least 44 deaths and damaging several properties.

Bringing her two children from Taiwan to Vietnam, Thuy left her kids with her mother in Soc Trang province and went to HCM City to work.

Japan's factory output posted a record tumble in March after a devastating earthquake and tsunami crippled supply chains.

A lot of tests, semester exams and competitions have been putting a hard pressure on primary school students.

Japan's NTT Com and a Vietnamese counterpart will tie up in providing Internet service providers and Internet content providers in Vietnam.

There will be no binding deal on emissions at this year's UN climate summit as the South African hosts and other economic powers are "not ready".

Vietnam is expected to welcome more than 460,000 international arrivals in April, up 6.3 percent against the same period last year.

The State Bank of Vietnam is considering a deadline to stop gold deposit and lending activities in an effort to prevent risks and insecurity.

Nokia said it would cut 4,000 jobs worldwide by the end of 2012 and transfer a further 3,000 employees to consulting firm Accenture.

Quang Ninh province has invested VND138 billion (USD6.6 million) in building an outdoor art laser light stage in Ha Long Bay on the night of May 2.

Competent Vietnamese and Cambodian agencies jointly opened a workshop to discuss measures to combat illegal trade in wildlife in border areas.

The Central Highland province of Dak Lak has completed new editions of primary school textbooks written in the ethnic Ede language.

Vietnam has signed an agreement with Worldwide Fund for Nature to make Vietnamese tra fish into a farming product of sustainable development.

The National Assemby has approved a proposal to allocate $1 billion in state budget to support projects in HCMC and Hanoi.

China’s increasing demand for leeches from Vietnam has some experts worried about the spread of such species.

Libyan rebels appear to be gaining ground against Moamer Kadhafi despite a deadly attack on Misrata port by the Libyan strongman's forces.

Japanese electronics and entertainment giant Sony unveiled its first tablet computers in a direct but belated challenge to Apple's iPad.

The boatman doesn’t use oars, but only a wire that is stretched across the river to move the boat on Hanoi’s Nhue River for decades.

For many children in Dak Nong, in the Central Highlands, childhood is a time of toil instead of play.