VIETNAM TODAY

The Japanese Government will fund US$95,476 to a project on boarding-house construction for disabled children home in the central province of Quang Binh.

Plans to construct 11 industrial and high-tech zones in Hanoi over the next five years were taking shape to attract domestic and foreign investors.

An aggressive herd of elephants is frightening villagers in Vietnam's Central Highlands, but a local official said that requests to remove the elephants were 'not feasible.'

The WHO warned that resistance to malaria drug artemisinin appeared to be spreading in the region from the Cambodia-Thailand border, where it was first detected.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung approved a plan to restructure ship building giant Vinashin scheduled from 2011 to 2013.

Vietnam will participate in commemorating World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims for the first time.

Sunday will mark the 2010 Run for Children which is an event that raises funds to aid children suffering from poverty and illness.

Vietnam’s younger generation is where the future lies for banks and their credit cards

An Hien is widely considered as one of the largest and most beautiful garden houses in Vietnam's former capital of Hue.

After earlier disagreement, law-makers yesterday decided that whistleblowers should be protected in the new draft Law on Denunciation.

A miniature sloth, the "Asian unicorn" were Friday added to the Zoological Society of London's list of genetically distinct and endangered mammals.

Members of the two clubs, 'Leading the Future' and 'IHanoi', will present a photography exhibition entitled ‘Millennial Essence’ in Hanoi.

The Consulate of Vietnam has officially been inaugurated in Nagoya city, Aichi prefecture.

A Foreign Ministry spokesperson was critical of the US 2010 report on international religion released by the US Department of State on November 18.

Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said Rolls-Royce had indicated that "40 engines worldwide" needed to be replaced.

Seven European cultural institutions and embassies established the European Union of National Institutes for Culture in Vietnam.

Construction of Vietnam's largest liquefied petroleum gas refrigerated terminal with the total investment capital of $245 million began yesterday in Long An City.

Environmental inspectors on Tuesday started a one-week inspection of wastewater treatment at 15 large hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City

Heavy rains have continued slamming the central provinces of Vietnam, killing 19 and leaving 6 unaccounted for.