VIETNAM TODAY

Many shops and supermarkets across Vietnam are offering special promotions on Women’s Day.

Authorities in Hanoi have approved a project to build a parking lot in order to meet sharply increasing parking demand.

The Ministry of Transport started building a VND3.8 trillion bridge, which will be among ten most modern in Vietnam.

A France-Vietnam partnership project to build homes for the elderly will be conducted in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau.

A ceremony was held in Hanoi on March 6 to present the Golden Rose Cup Award to 100 outstanding Vietnamese women entrepreneurs in 2010.

For tourists the Philippine island of Palawan seems like paradise, but for environment activists it feels more akin to a battlefield.

Joss paper money, usually meant for ritual burning, may be subject to new laws to make it more distinguishable from real money.

Nguyen Thi Loc is one of two Vietnamese female scientists who will receive the Kovalevskaia Award 2010 at a ceremony in Hanoi on March 8.

AZ Queen, a Hanoi-based travel firm, must stop all its services because it has been providing services without a license.

China aims to "basically eradicate poverty" by 2020 while greatly raise its poverty line, in order to help more people in need, Premier Wen Jiabao said.

Twenty-one provinces and cities will carry out pilot program on agricultural insurance for the first time in the 2011-2013 period.

American investors in Vietnam will have more financing options when joining local partners.

Japan's PM Naoto Kan is now "on the edge of a cliff" after his foreign minister quit over a funding scandal, newspapers said.

The closing ceremony for the 2011 Vietnam Professional Windsurfers Association Grand Slam was held in Binh Thuan.

All Vietnamese workers in Libya, which number 10,334, had by March left the riot-stricken country, said a labour official.

The unbridled manufacture and use of pesticides in Asia is raising the spectre of "pest storms" devastating the region's rice farms, scientists have warned.

A hospital-medicine and pharmacy university will operate officially in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai at the end of the second quarter.

Revelry took over Rio's streets as the Carnival kicked into high gear, while extra police ensured the safety of those participating in the event

Thirty-one lecturers from the Vietnam University of Fine Arts are displaying their best works at an exhibition entitled ‘Beginning a New-year Writing’ in Hanoi.