VIETNAM TODAY

Can Gio District in Ho Chi Minh City has closed the list of 875 local households eligible to receive pollution compensation money from Vedan Vietnam.

The lifeless bodies of two tiny babies are being given their final bath before burial in Karachi, after they were left to die in the southern Pakistani city's garbage dumps.

Students from the smallest ethnic minority groups at all education levels will be exempted from education fees beginning in March.

Vietnam and Brazil share the same strategy of sustainable development of coffee sector, said Brazilian Ambassador to Vietnam Joao de Mendonca Lima Neto.

Recently it has not been easy to find an appropriate place to read and present literary works in Ho Chi Minh city.

Every year during Tet employees in many companies expect high bonuses, while for teachers the bonuses are slim to none.

The Ministry of Health has issued a fresh swine-flu warning after four new cases were detected in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City last week.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange vowed to publish secret details of offshore accounts after a Swiss banking whistleblower handed over data Monday.

Vietnam’s steel industry is forecast to see a steep rise in demand in 2011.

Banks all across Vietnam are taking measures to tighten up control over their ATMs’ operations to ensure quality service.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Steering Board for Tra Fish Production and Consumption held a conference to review last year’s performance and devise tasks for 2011.

The prime minister has issued a new decision on credit guarantee regulations for small and medium-sized enterprises.

The prosecutor of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon has filed his indictment for the 2005 murder of former premier Rafiq Hariri as Beirut's neighbours backed new mediation to calm rising tensions.

Greenpeace praised China for setting new pollution targets but said the measures fell well short of what was needed to curb the country's world-beating carbon emissions.

A Vietnamese Entrepreneur Festival programme will be held in Hanoi on January 22 to recognize the outstanding entrepreneurs’ contributions to the national economy.

Police impounded 131 motorbikes after rounding up around 400 daredevil motorcyclists who blared horns, did wheelies and rode zigzaggedly at furious speeds on major streets in district 7.

Delegates to the 11th National Party Congress cast their ballots to elect members of the Party Central Committee.

Businesses outside the Vietnam Food Association (VFA) will be allowed to export rice beginning February 14.

A conference on drug control and crime prevention was held by the Ministry of Public Security in coordination with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.