VIETNAM TODAY

Amid tensions between the United States and Pakistan, a top US senator said he will visit Islamabad seeking to mend ties.

Some articles have exaggerated when reporting that craft village tourism is now in “death throes”, but in fact many villages are in misfortune.

A project to save the rare Vietnamese pond turtle in Quang Ngai Province has yet to get off the ground due to lacks of funds.

Just one third of Vietnamese small and medium-sized enterprises can get loans from banks, a survey says.

More than 1,100 women are raped every day in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Thirty-two robot teams from institutions across Vietnam will fight to get a ticket to Asia-Pacific Robot Contest.

The United States and China inked a broad economic framework Tuesday.

A team of seven Japanese film makers started work on a 3D documentary on the world's largest cave in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park.

Google began letting people store music collections in virtual online libraries in a challenge to Apple and Amazon.

Vietnam aims to increase the number of children wearing helmets to 80 percent in the next three years.

US software giant Microsoft is near to clinching a deal to buy Internet telephony pioneer Skype for USD7-8 billion.

The highly acclaimed Ballroom Dance company from the US’s Brigham Young University will make its first appearance in Vietnam on May 13.

When the local real estate market boomed and then peaked in 2007, it saw the birth of a series of real estate trading floors.

Private schools have become more attractive than state owned schools in the eyes of high income parents.

Vietnamese firms started building a USD95 million private hospital in Hanoi on May 10, the biggest of its kind in the country.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has decided to adjust the allocation of public investment into the agriculture sector.

Nearly 100 children with harelip and cleft palate in central provinces are being provided with free check-ups and operations from May 9-13.

The operator of Japan's ageing Hamaoka nuclear plant said Monday it would temporarily shut down its last two running reactors.

Quebec unveiled an USD80-billion plan to rev up forestry and mining development over the next 25 years in its vast northern region.