VIETNAM TODAY

Leaders from 10 Belgian universities visited Vietnam to tighten bonds their with Vietnamese counterparts.

Hellmut Kapfenberger, a German journalist who wrote a book about President Ho Chi Minh, arrived in Vietnam on April 13 for a two-week visit.

Japan's seismologists were so entrenched in outdated beliefs about seismic hazard that they became blinkered to the risk of the March 11 quake, the journal Nature charged.

One of the leading French pianists, Roger Muraro, will perform in Hanoi and HCM City on April 23 and 26 2011.

World powers offered cash to Libya's rebels and the means "to defend themselves" as they issued fresh demands for Moamer Kadhafi to relinquish power.

Vietnam’s state budget revenues face huge deficits annually due to increasing smuggling in tobacco.

The council for treatment of Hoan Kiem turtle has decided to move the legendary turtle from the treatment tank to the “sanatorium”.

US President Barack Obama unveiled a $4 trillion deficit reduction drive on Wednesday and savaged Republican plans that he said would reward the rich.

Vietnam Airlines transported more than 15 million passengers in 2010, up 20 percent over 2009. However it faces the shortage of pilot.

Many people are finding it hard to book tours during national Reunification Day as travel firms have closed their books.

The United States has turned to oversized puppets in Pakistan by funding a $20 million remake of popular children's TV programme Sesame Street.

Philex Mining Corp. said its international oil exploration affiliate has found encouraging oil and gas flow rates in Block 07/03 offshore Vietnam.

Hanoi Construction Department has identified 23 flood black spots in the city during this rainy season.

Vietnam needs more funding to clear unexploded ordnance from hundreds of thousands of hectares of land, a senior official has said.

Scientists have for the first time shown a link between intensifying climate events and tectonic plate movement.

Egypt's ex-president Hosni Mubarak has been placed in detention for 15 days, shortly after his two sons had also been detained.

Going to Singapore to study is now the biggest choice for Vietnamese students with reasonable tuition fees and affordanle living costs but it proves to be not the case.

Vietnamese expect that once the Vietnam-EU Free Trade Agreement is inked, the EU’s foreign direct investment in Vietnam will increase.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has proposed earmarking VND11 trillion for conserving relics in the next 5 years.