VIETNAM TODAY

President Ho Chi Minh’s will, the oldest professor, an unconventional musician and other items will be honored as records on December 18 in Ho Chi Minh City’s Rex Hotel.

US cable giant Comcast pledged to step up programming geared toward Asian Americans.

Vietnam’s chances to advance to the final match of the 2010 Suzuki Cup are still ahead, yet slim, as they were defeated 2-0 by Malaysia at the first-leg semifinal game in Kuala Lumpur.

Nielsen Vietnam recently published the list of Top10 brands in Vietnam, which was based on the number of users.

A seminar to warm up a project for cleaning up hotspots of dioxin contamination in Vietnam was held in Hanoi on December 15.

Time magazine named Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg "person of the year".

Vietnam’s northern province of Dien Bien and Laos’ Phongsaly province held an inauguration ceremony for Si Pa Phin - Huoi La border gate in Muong Cha district.

The premier of the cultural show Xin Chao! performed to a packed house on Friday at the Circus Tent, 2 Pham Ngu Lao Street in Ho Chi Minh City's District 1.

The operator of an unlicensed shelter for disabled people in southwest China sold at least 70 mentally ill workers into slavery in recent years, local authorities told state press.

The seven Vietnamese sailors who were rescued from the recently sunk RoK trawler “No.1 In Sung”, are all reported to be in good health.

At least 27 people died in a refugee boat accident off western Australia, Customs officials said Wednesday.

The central region is about to see medium to heavy or even torrential rains, as the forecast for the weather is to turn much colder on Wednesday.

Realty firm VietRees expects mid-range apartments to remain a safe investment channel in Vietnam next year.

WWF has admitted that tra pangasius was unfairly placed on its consumer red list, pledging to remove it immediately.

Craft villages are vital to the country's sustainable development in rural areas, said Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat.

A new international accord on global warming has heartened environmentalists, but casting a shadow is the political shift in the US where legislative climate efforts died in 2010.

Poor households with basic houses needed to be supported according to the Government programme 167.

The Vietnam Fisheries Association requested the WWF to apologise for putting tra pangasius onto its consumer red list.

More than 30 short films produced during the film maker weekend of the first 48 Hour Film Project in Vietnam are being shown to the public for the first time December 13-15.