VIETNAM TODAY

An international tea festival will be held in Thai Nguyen Province in November, the first of its kind in Vietnam.

Since the beginning of this year, 425 patients have tested positive for the A/H1N1 flu virus, and 11 have died.

The State Bank of Vietnam increased the compulsory reserve ratio for foreign currency deposits held by commercial banks to 6 percent.

The regime of Libya's Moamer Kadhafi has accepted an African Union peace plan designed to the end the current conflict.

Phone booths in most of Hanoi’s streets are broken and, many of them are completely seriously destroyed.

An ethnic minority youth festival, the first of its kind in Vietnam, will take place in Hanoi on April 17.

A surge in food prices has prompted criticism of US subsidies for ethanol, which diverts corn from global food supplies.

Party Politburo members offered incenses and flowers at the Hung Kings’ Temple Relic Complex in the northern province of Phu Tho on April 10.

The Department of Transport is looking at various options to regulate daytime traffic entering the city center in an effort to control heavy traffic jams within HCM City.

Two-way trade turnover between Vietnam and Mexico is estimated to reach more than US$915 million in 2010, a year-on-year increase of nearly 28%.

The National Assembly must improve the professionalism in its operations during the next term, said the Party chief.

Thirty three percent of businesses cannot afford the current long term lending interest rates of 12-13% and higher, a VCCI survey has found.

Following the trend of other staples, prices for coal have been increased by between 20% and 40%.

NATO has destroyed key ammunition stockpiles and armoured vehicles in recent airstrikes, while Moamer Kadhafi's loyalists pushed rebels back. 

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Sourcing investments for building waste-water treatment systems is a headache to relevant management agencies.

Many people are admitted to hospital with serious complications after prescribing their own medication for “minor” ailments.

A dramatic eleventh-hour deal slashing spending staved off a US government shutdown, ending a rancorous budget row.

The Government has approved a pilot project to recruit 600 outstanding young people to lead commune-level People’s Committees in 62 poor districts nationwide.