VIETNAM TODAY

Huge underground roads are to be built in the Chinese capital, state media said Monday, in the latest effort to relieve the chronic gridlock paralysing Beijing.

The rotor of turbine 2 at the Son La hydropower plant, the biggest of its kind in Vietnam, has been installed.

A series of projects capitalised at billions of dollars will get licences in the Van Phong Economic Zone in central Khanh Hoa province this year.

The European Union will provide 11 million euro for a five-year environment and society responsible tourism development programme in Vietnam.

Professor Ahn Kyong Hwan, of Chosun University in South Korea has become famous for his great contributions to Vietnam.

Ho Chi Minh City Tropical Diseases Hospital Saturday confirmed three cases of A/H1N1 flu infections.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon called on Monday for a clean energy revolution that would make energy available for everyone, at a summit in Abu Dhabi.

Vietnam has so far had 25 housing projects with a total investment capital of VND2.800 billion, helping to provide accommodation for nearly 129,000 workers.

British actor Christian Bale and US actress Annette Bening were among early winners at the Golden Globes, which launch Hollywood's glittering annual awards season.

Vietnam has set a target date of 2015 for completion of its program to provide pre-education to every child under the age of 5.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism will host a function to honor foreign travel agents for sending big numbers of international tourists to the country.

A forest management team comprising just three members has helped curb the illegal trade in wild animal in Ho Chi Minh City.

Local dairy giant Vinamilk said that the reasons for the recent increase in the price of milk is due to higher material costs.

Some smaller commercial banks in the past week have raised the interest rates they offer on US dollar deposits by 0.9 to 1.3 percentage points to as high as 6.1 per cent per year.

Nguyen Phi Cuong shakes the iron box several times and more than 300 pigeons from different corners of the Notre Dame Cathedral swoop down to eat the rice grains he has scattered on the ground.

Oil prices crossing the 100 dollars a barrel mark is possible but would not merit an emergency meeting of OPEC.

Car rental services in Hanoi are expected to take advantage of the surge in demand before the Lunar New Year to push up rentals.

Delegates to the 11 th National Party Congress continued group discussions on personnel plans for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam for the 11 th tenure.

Swiss whistleblower Rudolf Elmer is planning to handover to WikiLeaks two CDs containing data of around 2,000 bank clients who may have been evading taxes.