VIETNAM TODAY

Swede Ambassador to Vietnam Staffan Herrström reveals a painful truth rarely told on a joyous, romantic day like March 8th global women’s day.

Lieutenant General Do Ba Ty, Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army, received Chinese Ambassador to Vietnam Sun Gouxiang in Hanoi.

Moamer Kadhafi's regime accused the United States, Britain and France of "a conspiracy to divide Libya" Monday.

Vietnam will complete bringing its migrant workers in Libya back home over the next several days.

US astronauts awoke to actor William Shatner's voice and theme music to the movie Star Trek on their final day at the International Space Station.

Over 200 students in Ha Tinh province have had to brave a dangerous river, or travel ferry, to school for years.

Around 3.2 million poor households in the country will be given support totalling VND1.12 trillion from the state budget.

Jacques Chirac became the first former French president to go on trial as a court heard charges he embezzled public funds while he was mayor of Paris.

World oil prices shot higher Monday, striking 2.5 year highs on the turmoil in Libya and the Middle East, analysts said.

Many shops and supermarkets across Vietnam are offering special promotions on Women’s Day.

Authorities in Hanoi have approved a project to build a parking lot in order to meet sharply increasing parking demand.

The Ministry of Transport started building a VND3.8 trillion bridge, which will be among ten most modern in Vietnam.

A France-Vietnam partnership project to build homes for the elderly will be conducted in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau.

A ceremony was held in Hanoi on March 6 to present the Golden Rose Cup Award to 100 outstanding Vietnamese women entrepreneurs in 2010.

For tourists the Philippine island of Palawan seems like paradise, but for environment activists it feels more akin to a battlefield.

Joss paper money, usually meant for ritual burning, may be subject to new laws to make it more distinguishable from real money.

Nguyen Thi Loc is one of two Vietnamese female scientists who will receive the Kovalevskaia Award 2010 at a ceremony in Hanoi on March 8.

AZ Queen, a Hanoi-based travel firm, must stop all its services because it has been providing services without a license.

China aims to "basically eradicate poverty" by 2020 while greatly raise its poverty line, in order to help more people in need, Premier Wen Jiabao said.