VIETNAM TODAY

The sound leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) is the key to Vietnam’s revolutionary victories.

More than 100 Hindu devotees were killed after a road accident triggered a stampede among thousands of pilgrims returning from an Indian religious festival.

The Ministry of Education and Training has decided to give new books to schools in six recently flooded central provinces.

Targets for rice exports for the Mekong Delta region have been set at 5.5 million tonnes, a 1.78% decrease from last year.

The Ministry of Finance has decided to eliminate import tariffs on some petroleum products begining January 14.

Doctors in Ho Chi Minh City have uncovered a new case of A/H5N1, after months of believing the disease was under control.

A Party member affirmed the value of international integration to serve the country’s development.

Pope Benedict XVI Thursday appointed Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli as a non-resident representative to Vietnam.

Delegates continued to deliver presentations at the 11 th National Party Congress on January 14.

The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs has sent a proposal to state president of offering gifts worth cost VND309 billion to revolutionary families during the Lunar New Year.

The swamped Australian city of Brisbane began the heartbreaking task of cleaning up after its worst floods in decades, as searchers made the grisly discovery of another body.

The 2011 Spring Press Festival will be held at the Youth Culture House in District 1, HCM City on January 20-21.

The trade of liquor, beer, dried foods, garments, fabrics, cosmetics, and cigarettes, mostly smuggled from China, has become hotter in Ho Chi Minh City as Tet is coming.

Higher demand, coupled with lower hydroelectric power output during the dry season may lead to power shortages.

Ho Chi Minh City will implement three preschool education projects totaling USD135 million extending until 2015.

The State Audit of Vietnam and the Society of Certified Practising Accountants of Australia on Jan. 13 signed a cooperative agreement in Hanoi.

US computer chip giant Intel posted its best earnings ever in 2010 as businesses beefed up data centers to handle services increasingly shifting to the Internet "cloud."

European scientists have found a way to genetically modify chickens so that they don't transmit bird flu.

Vietnam, Cambodia and Denmark on January 13 signed a contract to produce a new set of maps of the national border between Vietnam and Cambodia. ,