VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnam has set a target date of 2015 for completion of its program to provide pre-education to every child under the age of 5.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism will host a function to honor foreign travel agents for sending big numbers of international tourists to the country.

A forest management team comprising just three members has helped curb the illegal trade in wild animal in Ho Chi Minh City.

Local dairy giant Vinamilk said that the reasons for the recent increase in the price of milk is due to higher material costs.

Some smaller commercial banks in the past week have raised the interest rates they offer on US dollar deposits by 0.9 to 1.3 percentage points to as high as 6.1 per cent per year.

Nguyen Phi Cuong shakes the iron box several times and more than 300 pigeons from different corners of the Notre Dame Cathedral swoop down to eat the rice grains he has scattered on the ground.

Oil prices crossing the 100 dollars a barrel mark is possible but would not merit an emergency meeting of OPEC.

Car rental services in Hanoi are expected to take advantage of the surge in demand before the Lunar New Year to push up rentals.

Delegates to the 11 th National Party Congress continued group discussions on personnel plans for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam for the 11 th tenure.

Swiss whistleblower Rudolf Elmer is planning to handover to WikiLeaks two CDs containing data of around 2,000 bank clients who may have been evading taxes.

A Vietnamese delegation headed by Assistant to Foreign Minister Pham Quang Vinh is attending the year’s first ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Indonesia.

Europe is set for a space "revolution" in 2011 when two new types of rocket join its launch pad in French Guiana, European Space Agency boss Jean-Jacques Dordain said.

Australia's flood crisis shifted to the country's far south on Sunday, with 14,000 homes swamped by a record deluge.

As many as 175 official and 25 alternate members will be elected to the Central Committee of the CPV for the 11 th tenure.

Going to an ATM this time of year, you might see ‘systematic errors’ messages, meaning that the machine is out of money.

This year’s flower festival in Ho Chi Minh City hopes to attract many visitors with a rich assortment of blossoms.

After enduring a freezing cold with temperatures in mountainous areas dropping to minus four degrees Celsius, northern Vietnam is to undergo another fresh cold snap.

The heads of BP and Russian oil firm Rosneft announced an "historic" deal to swap shares in a joint venture to exploit the vast untouched energy resources of the Arctic.

More than 10 dance sport duos will perform in the first-ever “Vietnam dance sport stars festival”, to be held at the Trinh Hoai Duc Gymnasium in Hanoi.