VIETNAM TODAY

One of the lamentable side-effects of Hanoi’s rapid development are the peach groves that are being turned into construction sites.

We were led up a creek bed that was a doorway to the jungle where signs of humanity disappeared and the green canopy shut out the sky.

Resurgent global food prices are again threatening to push millions of people in developing Asia into extreme poverty, says a new report from the Asian Development Bank.

Vietnam, the world’s second-largest coffee producer after Brazil, planned to cut its total coffee acreage by 13.5 per cent to 480,000 hectares.

Some brokers have set up trans-border networks that allows men in other countries to choose Vietnamese wives.

Despite Hanoi's new regulation on tighter management over private tutoring, educators are still dubious about its efficiency.

South Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has just published a bilingual book of Vietnamese–Korean about social life in Korea.

A luxury apartment complex, the first in Vietnam having hanging gardens, was inaugurated in Ho Chi Minh City on April 24.

Chilean shellfish farmers are facing an uncertain future after a giant wave traveled the seas and washed away their scallop beds.

Syrian troops backed by tanks rolled into the flashpoint town of Daraa Monday, killing at least 25 people, witnesses said.

Operation Smile Vietnam and the Hue Odonto-Maxillo-Facial Hospital will provide free surgery for children with cleft lips and palates next month.

Around 6,000 cubic metres of water is supplied per day by through a 42-km long pipeline to some localities in Ho Chi Minh City.

The Foreign Ministry of Poland has agreed to fund more than USD25,000 for the restoration of the front gate of the Temple of Literature in Hue.

The Ari Roland famous jazz quartet will give two performances at the Ho Chi Minh City Academy of Music and Youth Theatre in Hanoi.

Foreign-direct investment in the manufacturing and processing sector has disbursed 67.16 percent of its capital, according to a recent survey.

About 400 people collected plastic and other rubbish around West Lake on Saturday.

Thai and Cambodian troops faced off along their jungle frontier after 12 soldiers died in the bloodiest fighting since a bitter border dispute flared up almost three years ago.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung has given preliminary approval to the plan to build a new airport to replace Tan Son Nhat in HCM City.  

NATO bombs destroyed Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's office in his immense Tripoli residence on Monday.