VIETNAM TODAY

Despite a growing public outcry, parking lots in Hanoi continue to raise fees, ignoring pricing regulations.

An aspiring poet in search of true love. A student who has found it. And a young woman on the cusp of a major life change.

Physical education in Vietnam has been notorious for cultivating in students a hatred for sports with its rigid grading system and joyless drill.

Barack Obama unveils his fiscal 2012 budget, an election year plan forged from conflicting needs to cut spending and stoke the economic recovery.

The Indonesia SEA Games Organizing Committee has announced that female football will not be played at the 26th SEA Games in Indonesia.

Vietnam-US trade turnover reached USD18.324 billion in 2010, 19 percent higher than in the previous year.

The father of late pop icon Michael Jackson helped start work on a $2 billion hotel-entertainment complex called "Happyland".

Grandmaster Le Quang Liem of Vietnam is taking the lead with five points at the international elite chess tournament Aeroflot Open 2011.

Vietnam’s devaluation of the dong by about 7 percent, the most since at least 1993, needs to be followed with steps to curb inflation.

A slowdown in the increase of Kenya's elephant numbers is raising fears among conservationists.

A dazzling Valentine night fest for 100 couples will light up the romantic Anh Sao Bridge in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 7 Sunday night.

The Saint Giong Statue was vandalised at the Soc Temple festival, the very festival it was made to honour.

Japan surrendered its 42-year ranking as the world's second-biggest economy to China in 2010.

Vietnam’s tourism industry is witnessing its golden age. However, a new way is needed for it to coax more foreign tourists.

In the long term, it is essential to mobilise capital from people to reduce the volume of gold and foreign currencies they are holding, said an economic expert.

The military dissolved parliament, suspended the constitution and promised a referendum on political reform.

A Vietnamese company is to invest $1.2 billion in the development project of Darkhovin oilfield, said an Iranian official.

The “Miss Spring 2011” beauty contest organised by the Vietnam Students’ Association in France took place in Paris on February 12.

Switzerland voted Sunday on whether to abolish its long-standing tradition of letting citizens keep army-issued weapons at home.