VIETNAM TODAY

The World Bank has introduced Vietnam Innovation Day, 2011 in Can Tho City to support innovative proposals.

More than 100 businesspeople from Taiwan came to Vietnam to study investment environment and opportunities.

More than 50 paintings and sketches by the late Vietnamese song-writer Trinh Cong Son will come to HCMC Fine Arts Museum on Saturday.

The Ministry of Finance plans to scrutinise price hikes of seven staples beginning mid-April so to prevent possible price gouging.

More Thai companies are turning their attention to Vietnam in the quest for investment opportunities, said an official of Bangkok Bank in Vietnam.

Tiger Woods roared into contention at the 75th Masters by displaying the long-absent form that made him a 14-time major champion.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan has said he expects more Vietnamese students to enrol in US universities in the future.

Heavy fighting broke out in the besieged Libyan town of Misrata with four civilians killed, as loyalist forces sought to dislodge rebels.

Vietnam affirms its undisputable sovereignty over the Truong Sa (Spratly) and Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelagoes, said Foreign Ministry Spokesperson.

Thirty years after Dudley Moore brought the world "Arthur," Russell Brand breathes new life into the drunken playboy.

The Ba Danh Pagoda, which has been neglected by tourists for many years, is becoming a more popular attraction.

An opening ceremony of the Hung Kings Temple Festival took place at the Lac Long Quan Temple in the Hung Kings Temple relics in Phu Tho on April 8. 

European Union finance ministers met on Friday to thrash out the terms of a multi-billion dollar loan to Portugal.

Households moved out to make way for hydropower plants in several localities across Vietnam are not happy in new areas.

Libyan insurgents and civilians stampeded out of Ajdabiya, hours after a rebel armoured unit was hit by apparent NATO friendly fire.

Vietnamese businesses with workers in nations surround the Ivory Coast have been warned to pay close attention to their employees.

Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group sold a total USD2.7 billion to commercial banks in the first quarter, said its chairman.

The United States slipped closer to a government shutdown as President Barack Obama failed to cut a deal on spending ahead of a Friday deadline.

The Vietnam Gold Traders Association has submitted to Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung a package of measures to stabilise the domestic gold market.