VIETNAM TODAY

Air Mekong and Vietnam Air Services Co. are operating many more flights to Con Dao Island to meet high demand in this summer.

Syrian security forces and unidentified gunmen killed at least 19 civilians on Wednesday.

FPT IS, a subsidiary of FPT Corp., is the prime contractor for personal income tax management project in Vietnam.

Policies to generate jobs for the disable and prevent HIV in workplaces have been implemented in several firms in northern Vietnam.

Central bank's ban on gold deposits and lending will cause difficulties for banks in Vietnam to deal with gold already in stock.

Al-Qaeda's supremo in Yemen, Osama bin Laden's ancestral homeland, has warned Americans of a bloodier jihadist struggle to come following the terror mastermind's killing by US commandos.

Two-story, clay-made houses built hundreds of years ago are unique architectural works of Nung ethnic minority people in Ha Giang.

Vietnam has launched a campaign called ‘Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020’.

Vietnamese travelling abroad can buy foreign currency worth USD100 per day for a maximum of 10 days.

NATO has insisted its bombing blitz in Libya is not aimed at Moamer Kadhafi.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. is expected to book losses of over USD12 billion due to the crisis at its tsunami-hit nuclear power plant.

The HCM City Fund for the Poor has helped raise the incomes of 103,720 poor households, or 5.68 percent of the city's population.

Vietnam's Nguyen Thi Tuyet Lan has won the Asian Model Search in Singapore, beating 100 other top models around Asia to the crown.

Amid tensions between the United States and Pakistan, a top US senator said he will visit Islamabad seeking to mend ties.

Some articles have exaggerated when reporting that craft village tourism is now in “death throes”, but in fact many villages are in misfortune.

A project to save the rare Vietnamese pond turtle in Quang Ngai Province has yet to get off the ground due to lacks of funds.

Just one third of Vietnamese small and medium-sized enterprises can get loans from banks, a survey says.

More than 1,100 women are raped every day in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Thirty-two robot teams from institutions across Vietnam will fight to get a ticket to Asia-Pacific Robot Contest.