VIETNAM TODAY

A ferry rescued almost 1,000 people from Misrata and Britain said it plans to pick up 5,000 more after Moamer Kadhafi's government guaranteed "safe passage".

Vietnamese wholesalers will have to import 1 million tonnes of petrol during a two-month suspension of Dung Quat Oil Refinery.

A ceremony to commemorate the soldiers and sailors of the Paracel Flotilla was held on April 18 on Ly Son island in the central province of Quang Ngai.

A number of measures for the building of a low-carbon society in Vietnam were introduced by the Japan National Research Institute of Environment at a seminar in Hanoi.

Vietnamese students nowadays do not think that libraries could be useful for them in learning.

President Barack Obama offered federal assistance on Monday to stricken southern US states after powerful tornadoes killed 44 people.

A delegation of all the 54 ethnic groups made a historic visit to Vietnam ’s frontline islands district of Truong Sa, leaving Ho Chi Minh City on April 18.  

Since the last few years, the number of tourists registering for tours had increased sharply but this year the numbers have dwindled, casting a gloomy shadow over the tourist industry. 

Toyota Motor on Monday resumed operations at all its domestic plants that had been halted since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

The Vietnam National Institute of Ophthalmology will provide free eye surgeries to 200 disadvantaged people in Laos.

Vietnam has to date found no radiation contamination in food imported from Japan , the Ministry of Health’s Food Safety and Hygiene Department said.

Many hi-tech enterprises are planning to expand their business in 2011 and recruit a large number of workers.

PetroVietnam Gas Corp plans to begin construction on a USD2-billion port for liquefied natural gas imports.

As the Law on Food Safety is set to take effect, a proposed decree which would guide enforcement has drawn criticism.

Photos that highlight Vietnam’s sovereignty through vestiges related to Hoang Sa Archipelago on Ly Son Island are now displayed in Quang Ngai.

Secretary general of OPEC Abdullah El-Badri said that oil producers are "concerned" at high crude prices.

The number of applicants for university admission this year has fallen all over the country.

A number of international IT giants are speeding up their cloud computing development in the fast-growing market of Vietnam.

The Law on the Disabled, which was officially promulgated in 2011, has marked a great advance in the development of the rights for the disabled.