VIETNAM TODAY

New mobile operators, Vietnamobile and Beeline, are trying to make a splash in the market against giant competition.

South Korea will develop rare earths in Vietnam, Australia, Kyrgyzstan and South Africa this year, while cooperating with Japan for overseas development of the minerals.

A ship has been stranded under rocks off the coast of Hon Tre Island in southern Khanh Hoa province, leaving about 1,250 tonnes of fertiliser at risk for getting wet.

When temperatures drop below 10 degrees, preschool, primary and secondary students in Hanoi will be excused from class.

The Vietnam-Russia oil and gas joint venture Vietsovpetro extracted the 190 millionth tonne of oil at the Bach Ho and Rong oil fields off the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau.

China appears to have completed a prototype of its first known stealth fighter, reports said Wednesday, highlighting Beijing's military modernisation days ahead of a visit by the US defence secretary.

Vietnam dong inter-bank transactions recorded approximately USD10.94 billion during the last week of 2010.

Vietnam’s tourism industry saw big success in 2010 with over five million foreign visitors, representing 36 per cent on-year growth.

State President Nguyen Minh Triet has asked the court sector to continue to improve the quality of justice in 2011 and the following years, emphasising that court verdicts indicate the Party and State’s prestige.

A small village in Quang Binh Province is coping with serious health problems due to a contaminated water supply.

Vietnam’s first ever general election on Jan. 6, 1946 to elect the NA is a resplendent milestone in the nation’s history.

Vietnam led other foreign investors in the Laos capital city of Vientiane during the 2006-2010 period with more than 1.5 billion USD in 162 projects.

North Korea offered "unconditional" talks with the South, in its most conciliatory remarks since the nuclear-armed state sent tensions on the peninsula soaring by shelling a South Korean island.

Hanoi is feeling bone-chilling temperatures, forcing the many to struggle through the winter nights.

The schooling of young generation of goalkeepers in Vietnam has become shrunken, especially the in the last ten years.

The NA put human rights on the front burner, determined to draft new laws protecting human rights.

VietnamNet, a popular online newspaper in Vietnam, admitted that it had been hacked once again on January 4.

The PM has announced that all state officials in Vietnam will enjoy eight days off during the Lunar New Year holiday.

Children and the elderly have been hospitalized in the past days in Hanoi as temperatures in the north are dropping to 3-4 degrees Celsius.