VIETNAM TODAY

Ho Chi Minh City has reported 89,000 abortion cases in 2010, raising concerns about loose management on reproductive health, an official has said.

From Kandan, Cambodia, cattle have been smuggled to the southern An Giang province through Binh Di border, after which they will be miraculously turned into domestic cattle for consumption across Vietnam.

2010 was one of the worst years on record for natural disasters over the past two decades, leaving nearly 297,000 people dead, research for the United Nations showed on Monday.

With vast oil reserves that are far from exhausted, Saudi Arabia has decided to explore nuclear and renewable energy, Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi has said.

Rung Sa road, a new road linking HCMC with the East Sea through coastal district Can Gio, was inaugurated, feeding eco-tourism potential in the district.

The International Labour Organisation warned that the global economic recovery was not translating into jobs as world unemployment remained at a record 205 million for 2010.

Thousands of people are flocking to and from bus and rail stations to return to their hometowns for the Lunar New Year.

Vietnam's Nguyen Tien Minh was ranked seventh in the world in January according to the Badminton World Federation.

Tunisia braced for a major cabinet shake-up Tuesday following days of protests to topple the interim government, in charge after a mass uprising ended president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's 23-year rule.

To most Westerners, the idea of paying someone to stick little scoops and tweezers into their ears is downright unnerving. To Vietnamese, it's an art.

The Japanese government will provide JPY58.180 billion (USD703 million) for three major projects in Vietnam

Since the Tet shopping season is now at its peak, queuing in long lines to check out at overcrowded supermarkets has become an unwelcome reality for most shoppers in Ho Chi Minh City.

Vietnamese police have rescued dozens of weasels, porcupines and snakes destined for restaurant tables as part of a crackdown on the trafficking of rare animals, an officer said Monday.

A delegation of the National Assembly led by Nguyen Van Son, Head of the NA’s Committee for External Relations, is attending the 19 th annual meeting Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum in Mongolia.

Thanks to a resettlement project outside of Hue, many people will have a happier Tet in better living conditions.

It’s estimated by the General Statistics Office that the consumer price index will have risen by 1.74% by the end of January.

Terrorists struck again in the heart of Russia, with a suicide bomber blowing himself up Monday in Moscow's busiest airport.

Vietnamese private sector conglomerate Masan Group said that funds advised by U.S. private equity firm Mount Kellett Capital Management have agreed to invest US$100 million in its unit Masan Resources.

Inward remittances from abroad are soaring ahead of Tet, the Lunar New Year, early February.