VIETNAM TODAY

Liverpool cruised into the League Cup third round with a 3-1 win over minnows Exeter City.

An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale struck off the Phu Yen coast in central Vietnam today, according to Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST).

Vietnam continues attaching importance to its relations with the US, considering it a leading strategic partner, said State President Truong Tan Sang.

The Prime Minister has decided to establish the Vietnam Steering Committee on ASEAN Connectivity Coordination, with the Minister of Planning and Investment as its head.

Decades after ousting the French and later the Americans, Legendary Vietnamese Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap is celebrating another major victory: his 100th birthday.

Apple's legendary top ideas man Steve Jobs resigned as CEO in a move long expected after he began a fight with cancer.

Nelson Mandela Foundation's launched a clothing line featuring garments marked with "46664", the anti-apartheid hero's prison number, as part of a fundraising campaign to counter HIV.

NASA has boosted its cost estimate of a major telescope project to 8.7 billion dollars, even as lawmakers have threatened to slash the space agency's budget, a spokesman said Wednesday.

Vietnam will allow the adjustment of power prices once per every quarter, instead of the annual changes as current.

Vietnam’s consumer price index in August rose by 0.93 percent against last month, the lowest monthly increase since the beginning of this year.

In Vietnam and several Asian nations, votive objects are burnt ceremonially during certain festivals to “send” them to dead ancestors.

Vietnam’s national football team has jumped from 144th to 129th in the August rankings, the International Federation of Association Football announced.

Hurricane Irene looked set to become a major storm as it roared up from the Caribbean.

The use of e-signatures on emailed denouncements was under consideration by National Assembly delegates.

The Ministry of Education and Training has reduced some of the contents in curriculum at primary and high schools, despite concerns over the move.

The General Statistics Office has estimated that the country had a trade deficit of $800 million in August.

After two years performing across the globe, Kat Parsons has made her way back to Park Lounge of the Park Hyatt Hotel Saigon.

Some 8.7 million different species exist on Earth, though a tiny amount of those have actually been discovered and catalogued, researchers said.

Microsoft Corporation has recognised the Hue Star Educational System (Hue Star) as a global Pathfinder school, said the school chairman.