VIETNAM TODAY

A powerful 7.6-magnitude undersea earthquake triggered tsunami alerts for New Zealand and Tonga.

At least 36 people are trapped underground at a coal mine in eastern China after a fire broke out, state media reported Thursday.

Vinacomin’s claims that coal imports are more economical than using domestic coal have been rejected by experts.

The whole nation has elected 500 National Assembly deputies and 302,648 deputies to the People’s Councils at all levels for the 2011-2016 term.

Violinist Do Phuong Nhi, 13, will join the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra to perform in major cities in a concert tour held by Toyota Vietnam.

The Vietnam Records Book Centre announced the 2nd publication in its S100 Records series-“100 Vietnamese natural and food specialities”.

Doctors in Britain revealed they have developed a new model to help determine which pregnancies run a higher risk of miscarriage.

More species of animals and plants in Vietnam are facing extinction risk, according to the 2010 National Environment Report.

China raised a key interest rate Wednesday for a third time this year as it tries to cool surging inflation.

For many less fortunate students in Thanh Hoa province, summer vacation is a time to earn extra money by shelling shrimp.

The world needs $1.9 trillion in green technology investments a year, with over half of that sum necessary for developing countries," the UN said.

Many seafood firms have reportedly bullied catfish farmers by breaching contracts thanks to certain adroitly-crafted escape clauses.

Vietnamese athletes Ngo Huu Ky Phong and Le Thanh Cong both won gold medals at the Special Olympics World Summer Games Athens 2011.

Influential US artist Cy Twombly, who died aged 83, was a key figure in the post-war abstract art world with a career spanning six decades.

A festival featuring cuisines from the North, the South and the Central of Vietnam is open today, July 6, in the central province of Phu Yen.

A rockslide in Nghe An province quarry caused one dead and seven seriously injured.

About 200 people drowned in the Red Sea when a boat carrying migrants to Saudi Arabia sank off the Sudanese coast, Sudanese media say.

A Swiss-funded programme to improve public services in Cao Bang and Hoa Binh provinces has been extended 4 years with total USD14 million budget.

The latest "Pirates of the Caribbean" blockbuster has crossed the billion-dollar mark at the global box office, Disney said Tuesday.