VIETNAM TODAY

Forty two Vietnamese students have received Master of International Accounting degrees from Swinburne University of Technology.

Vietnam Railway Corporation is seeking approval to build new bridges to separate rail and motor vehicle traffic.

Directors of the Taiwan-based Magnicon Wool Weaving and Export Company are absconding to avoid payment of staff salaries.

Glues made from the body parts of certain animals are used to treat or cure diseases in Vietnam and neighboring countries.

An 18 year old kiteboarder has won third place in the freestyle event at the fourth round of the Kiteboarding Tour Asia championships.

Vietnamese police investigating the death of a reporter who was doused with chemicals and set ablaze as he slept are holding his wife on a murder charge.

Despite certain laws banning the practice, super slim and strange-looking houses continue to be built on many of Hanoi’s streets.

Vietnam's health care system needs a national co-ordination network to ensure the safety of medications at all levels, said an official.

Nguyen Thanh Nam suddenly left the position of General Director of FPT - one of Vietnam’s biggest IT corporations.

The more, the merrier is certainly true for Ziona Chana, a 66-year-old man in India's remote northeast who has 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren.

The Ministry of Finance has decided to eliminate tariffs on two more petroleum products beginning on February 24.

Hanoi plans to start its first fast-bus route in the third quarter of this year, with an aim to ease current heavy traffic.

Vietnam Airlines has launched a promotion programme for passengers traveling to Asian cities.

Vietnam should quickly prepare a strategy for moving toward a “low carbon” economy to cushion the negative impacts of climate change, said an environmental official.

A Vietnamese student got a grand prize at Japan’s second annual International Furoshiki Design Contest.

Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi ordered his forces to crush an uprising that has rocked his 41-year rule, vowing to fight to the end.

Enterprises that have sent Vietnamese workers to Libya have been requested to step up supports to labourers.

Hanoi is hosting an international conference seeking the ratification of Convention no. 183 concerning women's rights.

If the latest chatter is true, we may finally get our first glimpse at the next iPad in a little more than a week.