VIETNAM TODAY

Son La Hydropower Plant's third turbine hooked up to the national grid early yesterday morning.

The ratio of elderly population in Vietnam will reach 18 percent by 2020.

Sir Alex Ferguson has confirmed Vietnam will now be added to the list of potential Manchester United Far East tour destinations.

As many as 10,000 inmates will get parole ahead of schedule on the occasion of Vietnam’s National Day (September 2).

The two defence ministries of Vietnam and Singapore have agreed to focus their cooperation on the exchange of delegations, military technology and intelligence work.

Major ratings agency Moody's Investors Service downgraded Japan's sovereign debt rating by one notch Wednesday.

Tens of millions of people from Georgia to Canada were jolted by the strongest earthquake to strike the East Coast since World War II.

The central city of Danang has detected over 700 food stalls violating food safety and hygiene standards since early 2011.

Fashionable, dirt-cheap helmets are flooding Hanoi’s pavements. All of them are not verified for quality and made by recycled plastic.

English interpretations will be available through headphones for the first time for non-Vietnamese speakers in Hanoi.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism will organise two promotional campaigns in the next two months in China.

The Doraemon Fund will provide 500 scholarships worth VND500 million for pupils in the 2011-2012 academic year.

Beautiful sites in the capital city of Hanoi and central provinces will be spotted in a documentary film made by the Kansai Telecasting Corporation.

The State Bank of Vietnam allowed more bullion imports if necessary to stabilise the overheated domestic gold market and to keep prices stable.

Despite reducing power purchases from local producers, EVN continued to buy electricity from external sources.

The Navy on August 22 held a ceremony to receive a Gepard 3.9 class frigate at Cam Ranh Port in central Khanh Hoa p rovince.

The Government has approved an early increase of up to VND 2 million per month in the minimum wage from October 1.

The UK’s leading football team, Manchester United, has signed a three-year partnership with Beeline, Vietnam’s mobile telecoms company.

Hanoi may gather food vendors in the capital city at designated places to ensure better management over food safety.