VIETNAM TODAY

Tight monetary and fiscal policies will be prioritised in 2012 in order to continue taming inflation, said PM Nguyen Tan Dung.

The people of Quang Tri Province are still dealing with the consequences of unexploded ordnance 35 years after the war.

Police said that 6 gold miners in Quang Nam were killed following a mountain rockslide which was probably triggered by heavy rains.

As many as 40 teams will take part in the 2011 Vietnam Offroad Cup in Hanoi on June 25-26.

In many years, the encroachment on riversides, waterways, and trenches in HCM City has been rapidly increasing.

Embattled Greek PM George Papandreou picked a team of battle-hardened political veterans to carry out deeply unpopular austerity measures.

HCM City hopes to reduce number of homeless children by at least 95 percent from the current 1,450 by 2015, a city social affairs official said.

Over the last 14 years Nguyen Van Minh Tien has fought crime on the streets of HCM City, with no uniform.

FIFA had approved the fourth phase of a project to nurture football in Vietnam, a source from the Vietnam Football Federation said.

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou axed his finance minister Friday amid the country's crippling dead crisis, a spokesman said.

The State Bank of Vietnam has requested commercial banks to strictly conform to regulations on VND deposit interest rates.

The United States Agency for International Development has helped refurbished 25 pre-schools in Kon Tum Province.

Teachers face enormous pressure to give their students a good record of academic achievements, a teacher, has written to Tuoi Tre to complain.

Vinacomin’s recent import of coal is to ensure national energy security, an official from the company said.

Harry Potter fans were excited after creator JK Rowling launched a mysterious website counting down to the announcement of a new project.

HCM City attracted more than 1.65 million international visitors in the first half of this year, up 10 percent against the same period last year.

85 percent of urban and 40 to 50 percent of rural solid waste is set to be processed, in accordance with environmental standards, by late 2015.

The Ministry of Transport has proposed a ban on consumption of alcohol in public offices during working hours as well as lunch and other breaks.

Al-Qaeda named Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri to succeed Osama bin Laden and the US promptly vowed to kill him just like his predecessor.