VIETNAM TODAY

Nelson Mandela joined the football party for Spain\'s 1-0 World Cup victory over Netherlands with 700 million people watching.

The average Vietnamese life expectancy increased to 72.8 in 2009, according to the General Office for Population Family Planning.

PM Dung cut the ribbon to inaugurate the A Vuong Hydropower Plant and kick off construction of the Thanh My Cement Plant in Quang Nam.

The 28th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Energy will be held in the Central Highlands resort city of Da Lat in Lam Dong Province.

Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia have pledged to develop the border triangle area.

Vietnam and Germany are set to increase cooperation in justice and related areas after a recent Germany visit by a Vietnamese delegation of justice ministry.

World leaders and celebrities swarmed Johannesburg on Sunday for the World Cup finale between the Netherlands and Spain.

A young man has embarked on a journey biking through Vietnam to raise awareness on HIV and environmental issues.

Vietnamese Party General Secretary met with Russian Deputy PM, Moscow Mayor and Chairman of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

People are taking a variety of different approaches to the same question: How best to prepare for the coming apocalypse?

No longer listed among the poor and backward countries as of this year, Vietnam has become a middle-income country.

Health departments nationwide have been asked to spend 30 per cent of their budgets to prevent epidemic outbreaks of cholera and dengue fever.

Poland is to share the US$37,000 cost of preserving a stele engraved with King Tu Duc’s teachings that sits in front of the old national university in Hue City.

HCM City downtown can expect a major facelift along the bank of the Sai Gon River from Sai Gon Bridge to District 4's Tan Thuan Bridge.

The last four years Øyvind Sveen has been drawing his daily two pages of Norwegian football cartoons while living in Vietnam.

BP's efforts to place a new containment cap over the gushing Gulf of Mexico oil well could effectively stop the disastrous spill as early as Monday, a US official said.

A conference to promote investment in Vietnam’s marine-based economy in 2010 was held in Hai Phong with the participation of investors from many countries.

Russia considers developing strategic partnership with Vietnam as a priority in its foreign policy towards Southeast Asia and Asia-Pacific.

Football fever has taken a toll on gamblers in Vietnam, leading to a string of problems.