VIETNAM TODAY

Despite its highly endangered terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems, Vietnam makes a significant contribution to this biological diversity.

A powerful earthquake struck Friday off the coast of Chile, throwing a scare into residents nearly a year after a temblor and tsunami in the same region.

The list of the American architecture firms now building in Vietnam reads like a veritable Who's Who of the design world.

On February 10 Vietnam handed over the Sekaman hydro-power project No. 1 to Laos for a duration of 30 years.

Hosni Mubarak was forced to cede power after more than a million demonstrators took to the streets.

Vietnam’s kitesurfing team, the KINN team will compete at Pranburi, Thailand for round four of the Kiteboard Tour Asia championships.

Nokia said Friday it was slashing jobs and joining forces with US giant Microsoft in a major strategy shake-up that left investors disappointed.

Thirty-two percent of European businesses in Vietnam predict that the country’s inflation rate may reach 6-8 percent in mid-2011.

China's government has ordered a renewed crackdown on child abductions after an online effort to reunite parents with their lost children.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung has launched a project to recruit 600 young talented intellectuals to lead 600 communes in poor rural districts nationwide.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's Twitter and LiveJournal accounts have been named the best blogs of the Russian-language internet in 2011.

Petroleum traders in Vietnam will be bound to keep petroleum prices at current levels for now, but will receive financial support.

Vietnam plans to stockpile 1 million tonnes of rice to help sustain the market for farmers amid low prices.

Lampard believes England's future will be brighter after many of Fabio Capello's new selections made a big impact in friendly victory over Denmark.

Ho Chi Minh City spent more than VND300 billion (15 million USD) on this year's Tet, caring for the poor families.

A museum in London is throwing caution to the wind for an exhibition on sex in the animal kingdom complete with copulating chimps and randy rabbits.

Vietnam neither joined nor sent observers to the 2011 Cobra Gold military exercise in Thailand, a spokesman for the Defence Ministry has affirmed.

Colleges and universities in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City must undergo assessment for whether they should be relocated.

Vietnam devalued the beleaguered dong by 8.5 percent on Friday in a widely anticipated move to realign official and black market exchange rates amid high inflation and a persistent trade deficit.