VIETNAM TODAY

In 2011, the national plan to develop Vietnam’s tourism industry will highlight island and sea attractions.

Soldiers warned that another tsunami could hit, as an explosion rocked the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant.

The Vietnam Airlines flight VN8675 carrying 292 Vietnamese guest workers from Algeria ’s Hassi Messaoud Airport landed in Hanoi on March 13.

About 50 kilometers from Buon Ma Thuot City in Daklak Province, Lak Lake is an ecotourism site with a special highlands flavor.

Ciena Corp. and Vietnam Telecoms National have completed a next-generation 100 Gigabit per second (Gb/s) network trial on VTN’s backbone network.

The National Buddhism Propagation Seminar 2011 themed “Buddhism and the nation”, closed in the southern province of Binh Duong on March 13.

Hoi An has made it to the list of the world's 10 best cities for tourism by the UK's Wanderlust travel magazine.

Fossil fuel energy as well as hydropower sources in Vietnam are being exhausted and nuclear power offers energy more effectively, safely and economically.

Around 8.4 million Vietnamese people will be short of safe water by 2050, according to the Asian Development Bank’s warning.

The death toll in Japan's earthquake and tsunami will likely exceed 10,000 in one state alone.

Millions of Japanese were without drinking water or electricity Sunday, two days after a powerful earthquake and tsunami hammered the northeastern coast.

Unofficial market for foreign currencies in Hanoi has been reduced to almost nothing after recent new regulations.

A U.S.-led research team may have finally located the lost city of Atlantis, the legendary metropolis believed swamped by a tsunami thousands of years ago.

Japan desperately tried to bring an overheating nuclear reactor under control on Sunday.

The Asian Development Bank will provide a USD540 million loan for an urban mass rapid transit line in Ho Chi Minh City.

South Africa's AIDS deaths have fallen by nearly 25 percent due to scaled up access to life-saving drugs, new research has shown.

Russell Westbrook scored his 4,000th career point as he helped Oklahoma City notch a 104-94 NBA victory over Detroit.

Dozens of Vietnamese were reported to be living and working in the center of the deadly quake that hit northeastern Japan on March 11.

The combined number of people who have died or are unaccounted for after the earthquake in Japan is feared to top 1,700.