VIETNAM TODAY

Next year's Edinburgh International Festival is to focus on Asian culture, welcoming performers from China, India, Korea, Taiwan, Japan and Vietnam.

Floods caused from heavy rain falls two days ago hit central provinces on November 14th becoming the fifth floods in the region within one month.

At least eight people died as fire engulfed a Shanghai high-rise building Monday.

A forum to boost investment in the provinces of northwest region will be held in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai on Dec. 10.

Haiti's cholera toll has risen above 900, including dozens of deaths in the teeming capital, as the epidemic showed no sign of abating.

Many German investors are coveting investment opportunities in a range of Vietnamese sectors.

State President Nguyen Minh Triet joined the Vietnam-Japan Trade, Investment and Tourism Promotion Forum in Nagoya, Japan on November 15.

Defending champions Vietnam will be deprived of their two key frontmen for the upcoming AFF Suzuki Cup tournament.

Drivers of xe om (motorbike taxis) and three-wheeled vehicles will be required to wear a licence ID card on their shirts under a new regulation.

Travelling on a bendy road linking Nha Trang City and Da Lat City in the Central Highlands stuns visitors and leaves them in awe.

Paul and Rachel Chandler said they were "happy to be alive" after the Somali pirates who hijacked the British couple's yacht near the Seychelles last year released them for a ransom.

The 48 Hour Film Project, part of the global independent film making festival that is spread over 85 cities in 30 countries, has arrived in Vietnam.

According to a new survey, state-owned enterprises in Vietnam are not adequately making their information public.

The LOT Polish Airlines officially opened a direct air route from Warsaw to Hanoi with the first flight landing at the Noi Bai International Airport.

Vietnamese wushu artist Nguyen Manh Quyen snagged the first medal for Vietnam on the second day of the 16th Asian Games.

Barack Obama returned to Washington with mixed results to show from his longest foreign trip abroad as president.

The operators of some hydropower plants in Vietnam have denied the opinion that hydropower plants are the main culprit of recent floods in the central region.

The U.S. and Vietnam have built a lasting relationship since re-opening diplomatic ties 15 years ago, former President Bill Clinton said in Hanoi.

Vietnam's national flag carrier will launch a second direct route to Yangon next week, an airline official said Sunday.