VIETNAM TODAY

Real estate owners are hunting for customers to buy their apartments as they tackle the dilemma of an acute shortage of funds.

Apple announced that it beefed up its iMac all-in-one desktop computers with powerful new-generation Intel chips and high definition cameras.

Vietnam wants UNESCO to provide continued support to preserve and promote values of recoginised natural and cultural heritages.

Vietnam is making efforts to tame inflation at 11.75%, said Vo Hong Phuc, Minister of Planning and Investment.

The Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin has collected more evidence for the victims’ lawsuit against the U.S.

Over 60 households under the foot of Hong Linh Mountain in village 4 in Ha Tinh province are living under the threat of dusts and mine blasts.

Private investors are keen to jump onto the public-private partnership investment bandwagon, but local authorities are failing to do their part.

Vietnam’s land, people and famous tourism sites have been given wide coverage in the Nation, Puchatkarn and other major Thai newspapers.

The US Holocaust museum has teamed up with Ancestry.com to provide online information about those who were persecuted by the Nazis.

As Vietnam continues to develop it is also in danger of falling into the “average-income trap”, said the Asian Development Bank.

The Overseas Vietnamese Association in France has raised funds for victims in central Vietnam who suffered during the floods in October 2010.

More foreign garment and textile investors are stitching up investment deals in Vietnam as production costs rise in China.

The Asian Development Bank has approved a loan of USD190 million for a university which could serve as a model for Vietnam.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper won re-election at the head of an elusive majority government, television projections showed.

Thousands of Vietnamese go abroad for medical treatment annually at high costs, but in turn they are only getting worse.

The Vietnamese Student Association in Moscow held an opening ceremony for the Summer 2011 football tournament.

All 70 families of Mong ethnic people in Sai Khao village Thanh Hoa Province involved in chopping down forests to grow cassava and maize.

The government has instructed health authorities in Thai Nguyen to investigate a case where 18 babies got ill after receiving antibiotic injections.

A report which scrutinised 300 projects with state investment found that 269 of them were halted because of waste last year.