VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnam's Pho and Goi cuon have made it to US television channel CNN’s list of the “World’s 50 most delicious foods.”

The country's Index of Industrial Production slowed during the first seven months of this year to 8.8%, according to the General Statistics Office.

Thousands of people from across Vietnam have lit candles in tribute of the nation’s war dead.

The Vietnamese community in Great Britain, Italy and Germany raised almost USD8,000 on July 25 for Agent Orange/dioxin victims in the homeland.

Hanoi will speed up the development of its public transportation system in order to meet 25% of transport needs by 2020.

Heavy rain sent landslides barreling through Seoul and a northern town in South Korea, killing 17 and leaving at least 3 missing, officials said.

A great deal of substandard meat, from origins unknown, is being sold to Ho Chi Minh City, posing a health threat.

A Canadian agency has found excessive antibiotic enrofloxacin in Vietnam's catfish products, according to the Vietnam Trade Commission in Canada.

The Vietnamese team has bagged gold, silver and bronze medals at the 23rd International Olympiad in Informatics in Thailand.

The White House and its divided Republican foes clashed but failed to break an impasse that could see the US default on its debt.

Le Quang Liem won a memorable victory over former Dortmund champion Ponomariov in the 5th game of the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting.

After the negative reaction to its healthy financial report, Petrolimex has gone on the record to defend its profits.

Seventy-eight people were killed when a Moroccan military aircraft crashed into a mountain in the south of the country, the army says.

Vietnam would need up to USD34.6 billion to restore and develop road safety corridors from 2011-20, according to estimates from the Directorate for Roads.

The Japanese government has provided JPY10-15 billion for a water supply project in Vietnam through the Japan International Cooperation Agency.

Vietnam's first automatic reservoir monitor started its testing period on July 25 in northern Hung Yen province's Van Giang district.

A photo exhibition called “Legends of the land of An Tra” opened on July 22 in the central city of Quang Ngai.

Pianist Nguyen Bich Tra and young male baritone Nguyen Hai Dang will perform ‘Piano & Voice’ as part of a classical night in HCM City.

The Dak Lak team came out on top at the 7th National Sports Festival for Ethnic Minorities which closed in the central province of Quang Nam.