VIETNAM TODAY

Nineteen people, including 15 police and an intelligence agent, died in a string of devastating attacks in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar claimed by the Taliban.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung has highly appreciated the practical contributions to the national development by the young Vietnamese business community.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy's wife Carla Bruni is currently recording her fourth album in Paris and not as reported in Los Angeles, her agent said.

Robusta coffee prices in London are attracting sales offers from Vietnam, the world’s largest grower, coffee brokerage Eugen Atte GmbH said.

The interbank VND/USD exchange rate as well as the trading band has been adjusted to better reflect the market's demand and supply.

The 38th session of the National Assembly Standing Committee will focus on making suggestions for the preparation of review reports for the NA’s 2007-2011 period.

The World Wide Fund for Nature has removed Vietnam’s tra fish from its red list in six European countries.

Vietnam has achieved the United Nations Millenium Development Goals in 2010, said Vietnam’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN.

Despite its highly endangered terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems, Vietnam makes a significant contribution to this biological diversity.

A powerful earthquake struck Friday off the coast of Chile, throwing a scare into residents nearly a year after a temblor and tsunami in the same region.

The list of the American architecture firms now building in Vietnam reads like a veritable Who's Who of the design world.

On February 10 Vietnam handed over the Sekaman hydro-power project No. 1 to Laos for a duration of 30 years.

Hosni Mubarak was forced to cede power after more than a million demonstrators took to the streets.

Vietnam’s kitesurfing team, the KINN team will compete at Pranburi, Thailand for round four of the Kiteboard Tour Asia championships.

Nokia said Friday it was slashing jobs and joining forces with US giant Microsoft in a major strategy shake-up that left investors disappointed.

Thirty-two percent of European businesses in Vietnam predict that the country’s inflation rate may reach 6-8 percent in mid-2011.

China's government has ordered a renewed crackdown on child abductions after an online effort to reunite parents with their lost children.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung has launched a project to recruit 600 young talented intellectuals to lead 600 communes in poor rural districts nationwide.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's Twitter and LiveJournal accounts have been named the best blogs of the Russian-language internet in 2011.