VIETNAM TODAY

Foreign direct investment in Vietnam reached US$9.1 billion in the first seven months of the year, a year-on-year rise of 68.2 percent.

Spending as much as $250,000 on a bachelors degree from world-renowned U.S. universities is a waste of money, a new book asserts.

Dengue fever has spread rapidly in several southern, central and central highland provinces.

The second phase of the Apple iPhone 4\'s global launch in Asian and European nations got off to a \"nightmare\" start.

Market interest rates are in line for a period of stability.

Authorities have been ordered to take extreme measures in addressing the effects of online gaming on young people.

A tunnel will be built through the 12km Ca Pass in Phu Yen to ease traffic and reduce accidents on National Highway 1 linking the country\'s north and south.

Suspect degrees, threatening letters and a diploma scam have opened the doors to investigating Southern Pacific University.

Gold imports to Vietnam are being squashed despite strong gold investment demand.

Vietnam Competition Council fined 19 insurance companies for colluding to increase insurance fees for motor vehicles.

Vietnam can't boast many companies that compete overseas. Nguyen Quoc Khanh started one 20 years ago, and he now wins contracts from New York to Kiev.

Vietnamese health experts have called for urgent action to promote breastfeeding, government officials said Friday.

Ethnic Khmer’s welcomed summer during a traditional celebration in Soc Trang Province.

Students from the Vietnam National Academy of Music recorded a great success at the Asia Piano Academy Festival and Competition in South Korea.

Vietnam has made ensuring that regulations and standards for traditional medicines meet standards of those in the region and beyond a priority, said an official.

Ignacio \"Nacho\" Coronel, a top leader of Mexico\'s Sinaloa drug gang, was killed in a military raid in the suburbs of the western city of Guadalajara.

Children in a hamlet of Quang Nam Province have been waiting for 3 years for their new school and they have yet to get it.

The fifth Conference on ASEAN-China People-to-People Friendship Organisations (CACPPFO), opened in Singapore on July 29.

Southern Airports Corporation, airlines, travel firms and representatives from provincial authorities discussed how to get more traffic to newly-opened international airports.