VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnam’s steel industry is forecast to see a steep rise in demand in 2011.

Banks all across Vietnam are taking measures to tighten up control over their ATMs’ operations to ensure quality service.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Steering Board for Tra Fish Production and Consumption held a conference to review last year’s performance and devise tasks for 2011.

The prime minister has issued a new decision on credit guarantee regulations for small and medium-sized enterprises.

The prosecutor of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon has filed his indictment for the 2005 murder of former premier Rafiq Hariri as Beirut's neighbours backed new mediation to calm rising tensions.

Greenpeace praised China for setting new pollution targets but said the measures fell well short of what was needed to curb the country's world-beating carbon emissions.

A Vietnamese Entrepreneur Festival programme will be held in Hanoi on January 22 to recognize the outstanding entrepreneurs’ contributions to the national economy.

Police impounded 131 motorbikes after rounding up around 400 daredevil motorcyclists who blared horns, did wheelies and rode zigzaggedly at furious speeds on major streets in district 7.

Delegates to the 11th National Party Congress cast their ballots to elect members of the Party Central Committee.

Businesses outside the Vietnam Food Association (VFA) will be allowed to export rice beginning February 14.

A conference on drug control and crime prevention was held by the Ministry of Public Security in coordination with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

Huge underground roads are to be built in the Chinese capital, state media said Monday, in the latest effort to relieve the chronic gridlock paralysing Beijing.

The rotor of turbine 2 at the Son La hydropower plant, the biggest of its kind in Vietnam, has been installed.

A series of projects capitalised at billions of dollars will get licences in the Van Phong Economic Zone in central Khanh Hoa province this year.

The European Union will provide 11 million euro for a five-year environment and society responsible tourism development programme in Vietnam.

Professor Ahn Kyong Hwan, of Chosun University in South Korea has become famous for his great contributions to Vietnam.

Ho Chi Minh City Tropical Diseases Hospital Saturday confirmed three cases of A/H1N1 flu infections.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon called on Monday for a clean energy revolution that would make energy available for everyone, at a summit in Abu Dhabi.

Vietnam has so far had 25 housing projects with a total investment capital of VND2.800 billion, helping to provide accommodation for nearly 129,000 workers.