VIETNAM TODAY

Thousands of Vietnamese go abroad for medical treatment annually at high costs, but in turn they are only getting worse.

The Vietnamese Student Association in Moscow held an opening ceremony for the Summer 2011 football tournament.

All 70 families of Mong ethnic people in Sai Khao village Thanh Hoa Province involved in chopping down forests to grow cassava and maize.

The government has instructed health authorities in Thai Nguyen to investigate a case where 18 babies got ill after receiving antibiotic injections.

A report which scrutinised 300 projects with state investment found that 269 of them were halted because of waste last year.

The General Secretary of the Mexican Labour Party, Alberto Anaya Gutierrez led a delegation to visit Vietnamese acupuncturists in Monterrey.

The Asian Development Bank was set to discuss measures to control regional inflation at its regular meeting, which will take place in Hanoi.

The Mekong Delta provinces have become highly susceptible to the risk of forest fires due to severe heat wave conditions recently.

A seminar was held in the northern province of Quang Ninh on May 1 to seek ways to gather more votes for Ha Long Bay.

World leaders welcomed the killing of Osama bin Laden but many warned that the war against terrorism was far from over and that al-Qaeda could strike back with renewed vigour.

Authorities in Dalat City last week seized more than 100 wild animals from 27 restaurants citywide to return to the wild.

The “Vietnamese Colours” music gala for charity was held at the Tien Son Sports Palace on May 1.

Pakistan's main Taliban faction threatened to attack Pakistan and the US after the US confirmed that Osama bin Laden had been killed.

The Miss Ethnic Vietnam Pageant 2011 will be held in Ho Chi Minh City by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

The final round of the third beauty pageant for Vietnamese ethnic minority groups will take place in HCM City from November 26 to December 10.

It is still impossible to lower prices of many imported commodities even though the U.S. dollar has strongly depreciated.

Japan's parliament passed an emergency 4 trillion yen (USD49 billion) budget to help fund reconstruction after the deadly March 11 earthquake.

164 photos of Ho Chi Minh City have been published in a photograph album called “beautiful Saigon”.

Many parents and Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi are forcing a well-rounded education on their five-year-olds despite their kids’ reaction.