VIETNAM TODAY

The Hanoi Environment Group is organizing a series of activities in Hanoi to mark Earth Day 2011 on April 22.

None of the women in Kim Lien village in Danang can remember when they began to earn their living as hawkers by jumping from a bridge on top of moving trains.

Greater awareness of the real impacts of Intellectual Property Rights violations is key to fighting piracy and counterfeiting, experts said.

Most of the private run nursery schools in HCM City have raised prices of kid’s meals while state owned schools find it hard to do so.

Over half of road accidents in Vietnam occurred on national roads, a recently released report by the Transport Strategy Institute has shown. 

Apple nearly doubled its quarterly net profit on record iPhone sales but iPad sales dipped.

The Institute for Biological Technology said that it has finalised the DNA test of the legendary turtle in Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem Lake.

Nearly 35% of large, newly constructed homes in Vietnam’s capital are left unused.

HCMC’s consumer price index in April is estimated to have risen by 3.16%, the highest increase since May 2008.

Vietnamese Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Hoang Tuan Anh held talks with the head of the Chinese State General Administration of Sports, Liu Peng in Hanoi.

Seven civilians were killed and 18 wounded in a NATO air raid that targeted the southwestern Tripoli suburb of Khellat Al-Ferjan.

Provinces and cities nationwide selected 832 out of 1,085 candidates for the official list of candidates to run for the 13th National Assembly.

The Hanoi Environment Group is organising a series of activities in Hanoi to mark Earth Day 2011 on April 22.

Toyota said it will reduce auto production at its Chinese plants by 50-70 percent until June 3.

Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia signed a joint statement committing to enhanced cooperation in border security at their first ministerial meeting on security in HCM City.

A conference on the plan to open a direct flight route between Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City to London was held in London on April 19.

A rebel official in Libya's besieged city of Misrata pleaded for Britain and France to send troops to help fight Moamer Kadhafi's forces.

EU energy commissioner Guenther Oettinger is preparing legislation to force oil-drilling companies to pay for pollution, a source said.

Leaders of the HCM City People’s Committee have decided to support low-income teachers with an added allowance for the next nine months.