VIETNAM TODAY

According to estimates, the transport infrastructure in the capital city is in need of USD10 billion by the year 2015.

High bank loan rates have cut heavily into profits of tra fish farmers in the Mekong Delta while the price of the fish is high.

The Japanese Government will send senior officials to Vietnam to gather information about the ongoing negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

French historic professor Alain Ruscio introduced a book entitled “Vo Nguyen Giap – a life” in Paris on February 21.

In Asia, feet are far more than just the two pins that keep us upright and get us from A to B -- they can lead people into a cultural minefield.

The Asian Development Bank has approved a USD 1 billion fund to improve access to clean drinking water in Vietnam.

The Health Minister has announced a plan to issue policies to encourage medical workers in disadvantaged rural and mountainous areas.

Laos’ plans to build the Xayabury hydropower dam are said to harm Vietnam's aquaculture and ecosystem.

Cultural diplomacy is expected be taught as a subject in several major universities by the end of this year as part of a Government strategy.

The State Bank of Vietnam is to lower credit growth to 20% or less, in an attempt to reduce the trade deficit.

Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi has denied fleeing the country, as protests spread to the capital, regime loyalists quit, and fighter pilots defected.

German restorers are using traditional Vietnamese methods to restore the facade of the Imperial Palace in Hue .

The Nippon Export and Investment Insurance of Japan will provide USD50 million as Overseas United Loan Insurance to Vietnam to build a hydro-power plant.

Fifty million "environmental refugees" will flood into the global north by 2020, fleeing food shortages sparked by climate change.

The United States called on Libya to immediately end "unacceptable bloodshed" and to urgently make its message clear to Moamer Kadhafi's teetering government.

A powerful earthquake slammed New Zealand's already-bruised city of Christchurch on Tuesday, killing at least 65 people.

Ho Chi Minh City police will start fighting against "nail traps" under an urgent order of the local People’s Committee.

The consumer price index, from January to February, in Hanoi and HCM City increased by 1.98% and 1.61% respectively.

A high-ranking delegation from the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security led by Minister Gen. Le Hong Anh is on a working visit to Laos from Feb. 20-23.