VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnam’s retail market ranking has slipped from first place in 2008 to 23rd place among 30 surveyed emerging economics in 2011,said a survey.

A new airport will be built in Kon Tum city in the central highland province of Kon Tum.

Two candidates to head the IMF backed out of the race, denouncing Europe's bid to hold on to the job.

A $3.39 billion project on reforming high-school education is facing strong opposition from many experts.

A teenage gang in Hanoi was sentenced to a total 160 years in prison for rape and theft.

The chapi is a Raglai musical instrument that is in danger of disappearing, but not if Chammalé Au of Ninh Thuan can help it

A Vietnamese delegation participated in the Senior Officials Meetings of ASEAN, ASEAN+3, East Asia Summit in Indonesia from June 7-10.

The beach at Giao Long Commune, in northern Nam Dinh Province, is a polluted stretch of coastline, strewn with rubbish.

Germany blamed vegetable sprouts on Friday for a bacteria outbreak that has killed at least 33, left some 3,000 ill and caused huge losses.

The Pasteur Institute in HCM City confirmed that the deadly Enterovirus 71 of sub-genotype C4 caused the recent outbreak of hand-foot-mouth disease.

An investment association recently proposed that the Vietnamese government should put a special fee on imported cars and motorbikes.

With the 2G service market almost saturated, mobile service providers are tapping the growing 3G market.

Germany on Friday blamed sprouts for a bacteria outbreak that has left at least 30 dead and some 3,000 ill.

The world’s first 3-dimension scientific reportage is about Vietnam’s Son Doong cave and it will be broadcast in 60 countries on June 25.

Merzhin will hit the Youth Theater in Hanoi at 8 p.m. on June 20, promising the Vietnamese audience a night to remember.

Unsafe quarries remain a major health and safety threat, with two more people killed in a recent accident.

Vietnam Airlines has announced that it will increase the number of flights to Melbourne and Sydney, Australia to 14 per week as of June 13.

Hundreds of Chinese and Taiwanese nationals have been arrested in an international operation targeting telephone scam artists, officials said.

An Argentine laboratory announced that it had created the world's first transgenic cow, using human genes.