VIETNAM TODAY

Several attractive activities aiming to provide career guidance to high school students are being regularly organised.

A serious mountain slide occurred next to a quarry in Nghe An Province this morning, killing at least six workers and injuring 5 others.

Microsoft declared war on Internet king Google when it joined an anti-trust complaint in Europe that could result in billions of dollars in fines.

World tennis number one Rafael Nadal will square off against Swiss rival Roger Federer in a rare semi-final showdown Friday.

67 contemporary feature and short films by Vietnamese directors and overseas Vietnamese will be screened throughout the US.

Agents authorised by commercial banks to buy USD are finding it hard to entice transactions.

Retail sales value of goods and services was estimated at VND451.8 trillion (USD21.5 billion) in the first quarter of the year.

A radioactive cloud from the quake-damaged Fukushima reactor explosions in Japan is forecast to disperse over Southeast Asian region.

Vietnam sent almost 20,000 guest workers overseas in the first quarter of the year, a year-on-year rise of more than 16 percent.

Libyan rebels failed Thursday to secure control of the oil town of Brega from Moamer Kadhafi's forces.

Libyan rebels failed to secure control of the oil town of Brega from Moamer Kadhafi's forces, as the West shied away from supplying arms to their outgunned rag-tag army. 

State-owned enterprises will have to sell all their term deposits in USD, with the total value of $376 million, to commercial banks.

An agreement on visa exemption for diplomatic and official passport holders from Vietnam and El Salvador was signed in Hanoi on March 31.

The Government has decided to provide low-income earners and poor households with allowances to overcome economic difficulties due to inflation.

With the war on AIDS nearing its 30th anniversary, the UN declared "a moment of truth" had come for new strategies to address the campaign's failures.

Police in white moon suits in Japan pull bodies of tsunami victims from an evacuated zone in halting work interrupted by radiation alarms.

The nation's industrial production reached VND198.7 trillion (USD9.5 billion) in the first quarter of this year, up 14.1% from a year earlier.

Petroleum price hikes may raise Vietnam’s consumer price index by 0.4% this month, said a local official.

Abortion rate among adolescents in Vietnam is higher than any other country in Southeast Asia and 5th in the world.