VIETNAM TODAY

The agreements to be put on table will include the framework sponsorship agreement, the sponsorship request for the first phase, the lending agreement and the project agreement.

Ho Chi Minh City is planning to pilot the installation of camera systems allowing parents to keep watch over their children at the city's kindergarten classrooms.

More than 1,000 tigers have been killed in the past decade to fuel the illegal trade in parts of the endangered big cats, a report by a wildlife monitoring group said.

Pretty soon, Big Oil will be more like Big Gas.

Xe om drivers around Ho Chi Minh City major bus stations have abducted youth from the Mekong Delta and sold them to people who forced them to work without wages.

VNPT has signed a USD56 million credit package with state-owned Vietnam Development Bank for its Vinasat-2 project satellite-launching.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung held a reception for the Netherlands’ former Minister of Agriculture who has just become an advisor to Vietnam to cope with climate change and sea level rise.

Ensuring food security will contribute actively to socio-political stability in each country and the world as a whole, said Vietnam ’s top government leader.

AMPAS has officially invited Film Director Dang Nhat Minh to attend a special ceremony in honour of his contributions to Vietnamese cinematography.

US President Barack Obama finally made a much-delayed return to his boyhood home of Indonesia on Tuesday.

A Vietnamese national who stabbed an Alhambra woman to death in 1983 and then fled to Vietnam was found guilty today of murder and robbery charges.

You could call it the surprise du jour: A popular food on Vietnamese menus has turned out to be a lizard previously unknown to science, scientists say.

Vietnam upset Bahrain 3-1 in their first match of the Asian Games in China’s Guangzhou Monday.

The government is aiming to improve the skills of its workers through a joint programme by the British Embassy and the Ministry of Information and Communications.

Mathematician Ngo Bao Chau informed PM of a detailed plan for Vietnam's mathematics research institute.

Over US$6 billion will be invested in building the Long Thanh International Airport in Vietnam's southern province of Dong Nai.

Universities in Ho Chi Minh City are facing difficulties in moving to the outskirts from downtown areas as ordered by municipal authorities in 2006.

The inter-bank overnight interest rate in VND hit 10.17% per annum; the highest since February.

Active Voice has unveiled a new website aimed at raising awareness about the continuing effects of Agent Orange/dioxin in Vietnam.