VIETNAM TODAY

Some 26,900 autos valued at USD524 million were imported into the country in the first five months of this year, according to the General Statistics Office.

A man spent seven years campaigning against the imprisonment of his hired worker, who was twice sentenced to death.

Third World countries and notably those of the Congo basin face an uphill challenge in looking after their forests.

Twenty one songs about Agent Orange victims selected from 172 entries will be awarded in a ceremony in Hanoi in late June.

Science fiction film "Endhiran" was made in the south Indian language Tamil, but it pulled in huge profits from across the country and abroad.

Vietnam has demanded that the Chinese side immediately cease actions that violated its sovereignty.

Vietnam and Mexico have agreed to promote bilateral cooperation in healthcare, especially in community-based healthcare using acupuncture.

Vietnam could take legal actions against Chinese infringement of Vietnamese territorial waters, an expert said.

The World Health Organisation warned Europe was seeing the first outbreak of a lethal bacteria, as it has killed 18 people.

The German Reconstruction Bank is to provide a second loan to fund the construction of metro line No 2 in Ho Chi Minh City .

Vietnamese farmers who once rushed to apply Good Agriculture Practices have become tired because their products cannot find buyers.

Ha Le graduated in the UK but took the plunge into Vietnam’s immature hip-hop industry and has taken it places.

Management agencies have been urged to simplify the administrative procedures in order to attract more foreign travellers to Vietnam.

Russia banned the import of fresh vegetables from European Union countries because of a deadly bacteria scare.

Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan survived a no-confidence vote Thursday after pledging to step down. 

HIV infections among the world's youth dropped by 12 percent over the last decade, a UNICEF report said on Wednesday.

It takes us 45 minutes to travel by air from HCM City to Con Son Island, the largest of 16 islands in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province’s Con Dao District.

There is no one in Hoi An City in Quang Nam Province who doesn’t know Joanne Stewart’s freeswimming school for kids.

State-owned enterprises will have to sell foreign reserves in U.S. dollars to commercial banks from next month, the State Bank of Vietam required.