VIETNAM TODAY

Apple has surpassed Finland's Nokia to become the world's largest handset vendor in revenue terms, a technology research company said.  

A dossier of Xoan singing will be submitted to UNESCO for recognition as an “Intangible Cultural Heritage in need of Urgent Protection”.

The lives of many residents in some older Hanoi apartments are at risk because the buildings are leaning and show signs of collapse.

A recent survey shows that that 40-60% of the patients are underweight.

The Government is considering granting the sole authority to cast gold to the State Bank, instead of the current four or five firms.

The US military will use armed drones over Libya, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said.

The Republic of Korea has provided a non-refundable aid worth USD4.7 million for construction of a vocational training school in Quang Tri.

The import tax of powered milk products will be kept unchanged, according to a new dispatch from the Ministry of Finance.

Toyota announced Thursday it is recalling more than 300,000 sport utility vehicles in the United States to fix faulty airbag sensors.

Vietnam Television has decided to stop broadcasting a TV soap opera series Wednesday after it received strong criticism from viewers.

A delegation from the Vietnamese National Assembly took part in the 124th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Panama from April 15-20.

The lending interest rates have been pushed up to 20-22% per annum, forcing small and medium enterprises and individuals to stop borrowing money.

Aggressive new strains of wheat rust disease have decimated up to 40 percent of harvests in some regions of north Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.

Educational experts have criticised the draft Tertiary Education Law for being virtually indistinguishable from existing regulations.

Mourners bowed their heads at vigils to mark the first anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, which unleashed the biggest maritime oil spill in history.

The second turbine of the Son La hydroelectric power plant in Son La Province started generating power for the national grid on April 20.

Vietnam may succeed in taming inflation if it stands firm on its policies to tighten the money supply, says one economist.

Herbs used in traditional Vietnamese medicine may be lost completely unless measures are taken to manage their cultivation and exploitation.

A Hong Kong movie billed as the world's first 3D porn film has broken the city's first-day box office record.