VIETNAM TODAY

According to the latest statistics, the number of traffic accidents in Ho Chi Minh City has dropped by 969 cases, a 7.7% decrease so far this year.

Experts cautioned that the telecom market will cool down in 2011 as the number of subscribers has been saturated.

Regional universities are setting out to improve horticultural crop production, marketing, and postharvest activities in Vietnam and neighboring Cambodia.

The explosion of an Indian space rocket is likely to hit the country's efforts to push further into the global market for launching commercial satellites, experts warned Sunday.

The Ministry of Construction is urging that licences for businesses in apartment blocks no longer be issued.

Hanoi will spend US$ 165 billion in an effort to improve its infrastructure and beautify the city, according to a new plan released by city authorities.

Coins have been almost entirely removed from transactions in Hanoi nowadays.

The 8th National Patriotic Emulation Congress opened at the National Convention Centre in Hanoi with the participation of 1,500 eminent delegates from across the country.

FDI tea firms in Lam Dong Province admitted faking losses after a task force investigate the figures.

The UN World Food Programme said it had suspended food distribution in a lawless Pakistani tribal district where a woman suicide bomber killed more than 40 people.

Families living on boats along city waterways run the gauntlet of random police raids as they eke out a meager living.

Hanoi presented certificates of merit to 98 organizations and ten individuals who sponsored trillions of VND to the city’s 1000th birthday anniversary.

Books about Vietnam war written by two US veterans Larry Heinemann and Bruce Weigl, who served in the US-Vietnam war from 1967-68, hit shelves mid-December.

Vietnam Association of Financial Investors proposed the state bank carry out five measures to help stabilise the monetary market.

A sea of yellow and red fans witnessed an explosive first-leg AFF Suzuki Cup 2010 final that saw Malaysia storm to a sensational 3-0 win over arch-rivals Indonesia.

A winter storm in the US Northeast stranded thousands of airline, train and bus passengers.

Circuit advisor Hans Geist insists that the FIA are not looking to include Vietnam on the F1 calender despite the Austrian visiting the country.

The fifth Cuisine Festival opened at 23/9 Park in Ho Chi Minh City to promote Vietnamese and international cuisine to domestic and foreign visitors.

Outstanding loans are expected to reach a whopping VND228 trillion this year, according to the State Bank of Vietnam.