VIETNAM TODAY

Thousands of people have crowded the band train stations in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, wishing to return to their hometowns or go on vacation.

Phan Thi Huong Giang, the first runner-up in the 2009 Miss Jewelry contest, will represent Vietnam at 2011 Miss Global Beauty pageant.

Hundreds of students volunteer to join a charitable club to extend aid to poor patients at hospitals by donating blood, offering food and gifts.

The number of tourists to the central region on the occasion of Southern Liberation Day and May Day has increased remarkably from last year.

A bomb in Marrakesh that killed 16 people was set off by a remote-control device and bore the hallmarks of Al-Qaeda, a Moroccan minister said.

Prince William and Kate Middleton married with a mix of pageantry and spontaneity, kissing twice in front of a sea of revellers.

Vietnam is striving to keep inflation at about 12-13 percent in 2011, register an economic growth of 6 percent and trade deficit at 16 percent.

HCM City held a grand meeting to celebrate the 36th anniversary of the liberation of the south and national reunification.

In June 1941, as head of the Viet Minh organization, Nguyen Ai Quoc made an appeal to all countrymen and women.

The Doha round of global talks aimed at expanding free trade is on the brink of failure, World Trade Organisation chief Pascal Lamy warned.

The HCM City Department of Education and Training has been providing financial education for students as part of a soft-skills training programme.

China will attempt its first space docking between two unmanned vehicles this year, the first step in efforts to build a Chinese space station.

The annual fashion show launched by Vietnam Pictorial’s publication, Dep magazine, won a prize at the second Fashion Asian Award 2011.

The Ha Long Tourism Week 2011 opened in the northern province of Quang Ninh on April 29 with a series of cultural and sport activities.

The British Council has launched an eco-friendly business competition for entrepreneurs in Vietnam.

Land clearance by hundreds of mine and plantation companies operating illegally on Indonesia's Borneo island has cost the country USD36 billion.

A stele was set up in the southern province of Binh Duong to mark the first attack by the US’s long-range B-52 bombers during the Vietnam war.

The Government should have consistent policies for non-state universities to operate as non-profits, one educator said.

Prince William and Kate Middleton marry in Britain's biggest royal wedding for 30 years, watched by over a million spectators.