VIETNAM TODAY

NTT Communications has announced plans to build data centres in Vietnam and Singapore under a strategy to expand business in Asia.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung received US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is on a Vietnam visit to attend ASEAN meetings, in Hanoi on July 22.

Federal checks could begin flowing again as early as next week to millions of jobless people who lost up to seven weeks of unemployment benefits in a congressional standoff.

Various activities to support Agent Orange victims are being held nationwide in response to the day for Vietnamese AO victims, Orange Day, which falls on August 10.

ASEAN will make a greater effort to promote cooperation with its partnersy, said ASEAN foreign ministers in Hanoi.

Vietnam and the US agreed to develop relations with a major focus on economic cooperation.

Commuters in Hanoi will continue having to deal with horrendous traffic conditions as the city strains itself to complete its projects.

After just 10 hours, workers managed to put back into operation the floating bridge which wreaked havoc earlier in the day.

Tropical storm Chanthu – the second to hit the East Sea this year - is moving quickly towards China’s Leizhou peninsula and Vietnam’s border Quang Ninh province.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Vietnam for a round of ASEAN meetings and numerous other activities.

Vinaphone and Viettel have at last managed to almost sell out their inventories of iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G.

Military engineers are working under the greatest of urgency to repair the temporary floating bridge at Duong River after this morning accident.

Deputy PM Hoang Trung Hai urged all relevant cities and provinces to ask their local ships to moor at shelters in face of the ongoing Chanthu Storm.

Central Vietnam has seen a tourist boom this year, welcoming 30-40% more tourists than last year.

Half a billion. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called it a nice number.

A large barge traveling across the Duong River crashed into a floating bridge today, causing major traffic problems in Hanoi.

The Friendship-Friendship Gate tourism complex will be built across the sino Vietnamese border to bolster the two countries’ friendship and cooperative relations.

Bangladesh Food Minister Abdur Razzak said the government would import 50,000 to one lakh metric tonnes of rice from Vietnam soon.

Whilst Vietnam is still actively pursuing investments from overseas Vietnamese nationals, domestic companies are investing abroad, notably in real estate.