VIETNAM TODAY

Aggressive new strains of wheat rust disease have decimated up to 40 percent of harvests in some regions of north Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.

Educational experts have criticised the draft Tertiary Education Law for being virtually indistinguishable from existing regulations.

Mourners bowed their heads at vigils to mark the first anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, which unleashed the biggest maritime oil spill in history.

The second turbine of the Son La hydroelectric power plant in Son La Province started generating power for the national grid on April 20.

Vietnam may succeed in taming inflation if it stands firm on its policies to tighten the money supply, says one economist.

Herbs used in traditional Vietnamese medicine may be lost completely unless measures are taken to manage their cultivation and exploitation.

A Hong Kong movie billed as the world's first 3D porn film has broken the city's first-day box office record.

Many businesses still hesitate to opt for electronic invoices as they doubt the safety of the new invoice, which will be applied from May 1st.

The Hanoi Environment Group is organizing a series of activities in Hanoi to mark Earth Day 2011 on April 22.

None of the women in Kim Lien village in Danang can remember when they began to earn their living as hawkers by jumping from a bridge on top of moving trains.

Greater awareness of the real impacts of Intellectual Property Rights violations is key to fighting piracy and counterfeiting, experts said.

Most of the private run nursery schools in HCM City have raised prices of kid’s meals while state owned schools find it hard to do so.

Over half of road accidents in Vietnam occurred on national roads, a recently released report by the Transport Strategy Institute has shown. 

Apple nearly doubled its quarterly net profit on record iPhone sales but iPad sales dipped.

The Institute for Biological Technology said that it has finalised the DNA test of the legendary turtle in Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem Lake.

Nearly 35% of large, newly constructed homes in Vietnam’s capital are left unused.

HCMC’s consumer price index in April is estimated to have risen by 3.16%, the highest increase since May 2008.

Vietnamese Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Hoang Tuan Anh held talks with the head of the Chinese State General Administration of Sports, Liu Peng in Hanoi.

Seven civilians were killed and 18 wounded in a NATO air raid that targeted the southwestern Tripoli suburb of Khellat Al-Ferjan.