VIETNAM TODAY

Hanoi Construction Department has identified 23 flood black spots in the city during this rainy season.

Vietnam needs more funding to clear unexploded ordnance from hundreds of thousands of hectares of land, a senior official has said.

Scientists have for the first time shown a link between intensifying climate events and tectonic plate movement.

Egypt's ex-president Hosni Mubarak has been placed in detention for 15 days, shortly after his two sons had also been detained.

Going to Singapore to study is now the biggest choice for Vietnamese students with reasonable tuition fees and affordanle living costs but it proves to be not the case.

Vietnamese expect that once the Vietnam-EU Free Trade Agreement is inked, the EU’s foreign direct investment in Vietnam will increase.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has proposed earmarking VND11 trillion for conserving relics in the next 5 years.

US President Barack Obama is set to try and wrest control of Washington's fevered debate over the economy and bulging deficit.

A number of big foreign-invested projects have been put on de facto hold due to site clearance problems.

Around three million people went to the Hung Temple to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Hung King this year.

A leading climate scientist warned that Europe should take action over increasing drought and floods.

The EU’s foreign direct investment in Vietnam is believed to increase once the Vietnam-EU Free Trade Agreement is inked.

Two teams from Vietnam won first and second prizes at the 14 th Large Scale Integrated (LSI) Design Contest held in Okinawa, Japan.

Vietnam called for ASEAN nations to exert their efforts to maintain the association's central role in the East Asian Summit EAS.

Vietnam is speeding up technical preparations in a bid to foster a competitive power generation market beginning July 1.

Returning from their days off for the Hung Temple festival, a large number of people flocked back to the city.

Two teams from Vietnam National University - HCM City won first and second prizes at the 14th Large Scale Integrated Design Contest in Japan.

Japanese auto giant Toyota said it would temporarily halt production at five European plants for several days in April and May.  

Japan upgraded its month-old nuclear emergency to a maximum seven on an international scale of atomic crises Tuesday.