VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnam will put a television commercial on BBC in a tourism promotion campaign this year.

Toyota, the world's biggest auto maker, said on Friday output will start recovering in mid-year but will not be back to normal until end 2011.

BP has pledged USD1 billion to jump-start projects aimed at restoring the US Gulf Coast after last year's massive oil spill.

Vietnamese movie ‘Bi, don’t be afraid’ won the Bronze Drum prize for best feature film at a festival in the U.S.

About VND104 trillion (USD5 billion) has been set aside for socio-economic development in the Central Highland province of Kon Tum.

Over half of road accidents in Vietnam occurred on national roads, a recently released report by the Transport Strategy Institute has shown.

The Chinese Development Bank will finance low income housing in Vietnam under an agreement signed in Hanoi.

Vietnam remains an attractive place to invest, but low foreign currency reserves and dependence on certain imports add to investment difficulties.

Pa Co, some 40 km from Mai Chau, in the northern province of Hoa Binh, has a wild beauty with lovely landscapes.

Japan announced a USD49 billion reconstruction budget for areas devastated by the quake and tsunami.  

Increasing VND compulsory reserve ratio will help to curb inflation, but may also cause pressures for banks.

Apple has surpassed Finland's Nokia to become the world's largest handset vendor in revenue terms, a technology research company said.  

A dossier of Xoan singing will be submitted to UNESCO for recognition as an “Intangible Cultural Heritage in need of Urgent Protection”.

The lives of many residents in some older Hanoi apartments are at risk because the buildings are leaning and show signs of collapse.

A recent survey shows that that 40-60% of the patients are underweight.

The Government is considering granting the sole authority to cast gold to the State Bank, instead of the current four or five firms.

The US military will use armed drones over Libya, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said.

The Republic of Korea has provided a non-refundable aid worth USD4.7 million for construction of a vocational training school in Quang Tri.

The import tax of powered milk products will be kept unchanged, according to a new dispatch from the Ministry of Finance.