VIETNAM TODAY

Deputy PM Nguyen Thien Nhan has approved the proposal of the Khanh Hoa Province People’s Committee to host Miss Earth 2010.

Leather and footwear exports rose 13.8 percent in the first seven months to 2.75 billion USD, according to the Vietnam Leather and Footwear Association.

Vietnam’s first ethanol plant has begun operations and is expected to provide a main source of ethanol petrol for the domestic market.

Russia Thursday banned grain exports for the next four-and-a-half months due to a record drought that has destroyed millions of hectares of its land.

Nguyen Tien Minh has won a place in the quarter-finals of the Chinese Taipei Grand Prix Gold Open yesterday.

Celebrating and preparing for the future of crafts is an economic necessity for many villagers Vietnam.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism has invited tourism agencies, hoteliers and travel firms to join a marketing program in Germany, Belgium and France.

After the Vietnamese Foreign Affairs Ministry asked Google to correct errors on Google Maps this March, part of the border between Vietnam and China has been corrected.  

Domestic and foreign investors are being called for medicine production paving the way for Vietnam’s drug production sector development

Vietnam has initiated 63 projects in Cambodia, with a total investment of US$900 million, making Vietnam Cambodia’s third largest investor.

Supermodel Naomi Campbell told a court how she received a pouch of rough diamonds came from Liberia's ex-president Charles Taylor, in the dock for war crimes.

Official figures in South Korea show there were 7,249 marriages between South Koreans and Vietnamese women last year.

Vietnam demands that China cease activities that violate Vietnam’s sovereignty and its sovereign rights in the East Sea.

"In Citi's 15 years of doing business in the country, Vietnam has become one of the most promising markets," said Citi CEO Vikram Pandit.

Investigations into Vinashin's former chairman will be thoroughly pursued, the Standing Deputy Prime Minister said.

Effective August 8, 2010, overseas Vietnamese who still hold Vietnamese citizenship can own any number of houses in Vietnam.

The second Vietnam-Africa International Forum will take place in Hanoi from August 17-19, 2010.

The Ministry of Natural Resources & Environment has begun conducting a review of 19 golf course projects in Hanoi.

Local authorities have decided to charge people to take water which many believe can cure diseases.