VIETNAM TODAY

Helicopters with emergency supplies landed on the remote islands slammed by a tsunami that killed at least 272 people.

Vietnam wishes to boost bilateral friendship, solidarity and comprehensive cooperation with Indonesia, affirmed the Vietnamese State President.

Public universities and colleges are short on accommodation and facilities for students, according to a new study.

A village in Gia Lai Province has a tradition of knocking down forest to grow crops and rice.

A good strategy and a balanced team are a must if the national Olympic football team is to gain good results at the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou next month.

Japan today signed a technical cooperation project to transfer its most advanced technology to develop new rice varieties in the midlands and mountainous areas in north Vietnam.

The high-tech nation is pushing the initiative to promote some of its ancient village wisdom as a way to heal battered environments worldwide.

State President Nguyen Minh Triet and his Philippine counterpart, Benigno S. Aquino III, have discussed directions and measures to develop bilateral cooperation more effectively.

A seminar on measures to help small- and medium-sized businesses was held in the central city of Da Nang on October 26.

Twenty-one countries are expected to participate in a charity bazaar organized by diplomats’ wives, next month, in Ho Chi Minh City.

The cooperation between Vietnam and France will be further promoted during French Week in Vietnam, November 23-27 in Hanoi.

The tentative scheme to lower import tariffs on trucks has made a rift between the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Finance.

At least 137 people were killed after a tsunami smashed into a remote island chain and Mount Merapi erupted on the island of Java.

An average of 21 Vietnamese students shares a seat in libraries. Of the 196 universities and colleges, 24 are without libraries while 119 are without e-libraries.

The net domain reserved for Vietnam has become a haven of cyber crime, suggests research.

The establishment of a sustainable welfare network is the urgent need and important step of ASEAN and East Asia’s development models, said PM Nguyen Tan Dung.

At 11 am on October 26, a search and rescue ship escorted the fishing boat QNg 66478 TS and its nine crew to Dung Quat 1 Port in the central province of Quang Ngai.

At least 108 people were killed and more than 500 missing Tuesday, after a tsunami triggered by a powerful earthquake hit a remote Indonesian island chain.

Vietnam's population is increasingly imbalanced between men and women, threatening to leave young males without female partners, the United Nations said.