VIETNAM TODAY

Central China's worst drought in more than 50 years is drying reservoirs, stalling rice planting, and threatens crippling power shortages.

Industrial production in the first five months of the year surged 14.2 percent against the same period in 2010 to USD16.36 billion.

The death toll from NATO air strikes on Tripoli and its suburbs has risen to 19, Libyan state television reported on Tuesday.  

Digital technology in the form of emails, blogs and social network sites means traditional broadcasters are facing new challenges, a conference in Hanoi heard

Online retail titan Amazon.com and bookselling giant Barnes & Noble dueled Tuesday for the devotion of digital book lovers.

US film giant Columbia Pictures has won the US distribution rights for a film about the killing of Osama bin Laden.

The Lion City has chosen to honor Ho Chi Minh, along with other liberators, who all spent time in Singapore.

The consumer price index in May soared 2.21 percent against last month, causing an increase in the five-month CPI to over 12 percent since December 2010.

The first European Literature Day will be held in Hanoi on May 27-28, as part of the Europe Days series of event in Vietnam.

Hanoi is encouraging students to further study chemistry in response to the International Year of Chemistry 2011.

Increasing numbers of consumers are becoming aware of the unhygienic practices being used to produce rice noodles.

The 15-year wait for the return of videogame tough guy "Duke Nukem" will end in June, 2K Games promised on Tuesday.

Rescuers combed through overturned cars and flattened buildings Tuesday hunting for survivors after this Missouri town was struck by one of the strongest US tornadoes ever recorded.

Unlike in the past landslides are now a threat even during the dry season along the Tien and Hau rivers in the Mekong Delta.

Ha Long, Vietnam’s world natural heritage, gained the highest growth in votes in the poll for the seven new world natural wonders.

The Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists launched the sixth International Art Photography contest and exhibition in Hanoi.

More than two years after being hit by the global recession, the domestic shipping sector is still struggling, according to experts.

Airlines halted hundreds of flights on Tuesday after a plume of ash from an erupting volcano in Iceland blew over Britain.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade has issued more stringent requirements for car importers.