VIETNAM TODAY

Trees planted for global climate campaign

Environmental campaigners planted trees, collected rubbish and rallied against pollution for what organisers aimed to make the world's biggest day of climate-change activism.

UK shares public-private partnership experience with Vietnam

British experts shared their views on PPP opportunities for Vietnam, including an explanation of the legal framework of a PPP model.

Chinese coach Chen Yun Fat returns to Vietnam

Nearly one year after leaving Vietnam’s national female football team, coach Chen Yun Fat has returned to Vietnam to help the team prepare for the 16th Asian Games.

Baby market

Sex work in Da Nang has facilitated the trade of unwanted infants, usually under the guise of social welfare.

Environmentally sound entrepreneurs rewarded

100 outstanding Vietnamese entrepreneurs in 2010 were awarded the Thanh Giong Cup by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Floods claim 64 deaths in central Vietnam

Floods have taken the lives of 64, left 22 missing and caused 75 injuries in central Vietnam.

Party leader welcomes visiting defence ministers

Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh welcomed the high-level delegations from the three countries China, Laos and Cambodia.

La joie pour les business

Greater investment opportunities for Vietnamese and French enterprises will appear at a big business-oriented French event in Hanoi next month.

Ministry plans to raise height of Vietnamese

Vietnam hopes to increase the average height of men to 167cm and women to 157cm by 2020.

World protest urges end to death penalty

Governments and campaigners urged a worldwide end to the death penalty.

PM visits worst-hit province of Quang Binh

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung together with a government task force visited Quang Binh, the worst-hit central province in the pounding flood beginning early October.

Japan presents Hanoi with pair of rare cranes

Japan’s Ueno Zoo has decided to present Hanoi with a pair of rare red-crowned cranes on the occasion of the city’s millennial anniversary.

Biggest cultural programme ready for Hanoi millennial anniversary

Thang Long-Hanoi City of the Soaring Dragon by director Trong Dai and script writer Nguyen Khac Phuc will be performed in Hanoi at 8pm on October 10.

Thousands in Asia join global message on climate

Tens of thousands of people in the Asia-Pacific region Sunday planted trees, collected trash and campaigned against pollution

Hanoi millennium anniversary in international media

The 1000 year anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi has attracted great attention from many international newspapers and news agencies.

Vietnam wants to further ties with Czech Republic

Vietnam wishes the Czech Republic to expand cooperation with Vietnam, especially in areas of their strengths, in order to bringing bilateral ties to a new height.