VIETNAM TODAY

International talks on Libya in Rome promise to be all about the money as global powers seek ways of channelling credit to Libya's rebels.

The British Council and UK-based Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance have launched a competition seeking ideas to protect the global environment.

The official selection at Cannes will consist of 20 films, organisers announced Wednesday.

Young people with disabilities will have chances to get jobs thanks to the expansion of a humanitarian vocational training centre in Hanoi.

Ho Chi Minh City’s An Phu 1 Primary School knows how to make hyperactive students behave via a separate and fully-equipped classroom.

The Mekong Delta may well be a hot spot for tourists desperate to experience the floating markets, orchards, ancient and pagodas and so on.

Stress tests on nuclear power stations in the European Union will start in June, EU president Hungary announced Wednesday.

The Asian Development Bank will provide Vietnam with a loan worth USD1.38 billion to provide access to clean water.

The finance ministers of the ten ASEAN members countries and three dialogue partners convened in Hanoi on May 4.

While the majority of university students joined their families to celebrate holidays, some had to work to earn a living.

Germany’s Piano Duo D’Accord will give performances in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to celebrate European Days in Vietnam 2011.

Vietnam's central bank raised the rate it offers for loans via open market operations by 100 basis points to 14 percent on Wednesday.

Over 200 key cadres nationwide gathered at a conference in Danang to discuss important documents adopted at the 11th Party Congress.

Vietnam and ADB signed a USD1.38 billion financial assistance deal set to help increase access to clean water and conserve threatened forests.

Vietnam will prioritise vocational training in the coming years to ease the current shortage of skilled labourers.

The Europe Days 2011 programme will open in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City on May 6, with a series of diverse intellectual and cultural activities.

Portugal is now the third eurozone country to take up rescue crutches, which will go along with a 78-billion-euro EU-IMF deal to avoid debt default.

Huge objects in the universe distort space and time with the force of their gravity, scientists said.

Vietnam wants to join South Africa in raising two-way trade to $1 billion in the next few years, said Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan.