VIETNAM TODAY

The 120 top university graduates and the 25 students were honoured at a programme held in Hanoi on August 15.

Australian police say a Vietnamese man was killed when a tourist bus crashed in south-west Victoria on Sunday afternoon.

The Da Nang-Quang Ngai expressway has been approved for construction, however site clearance issues still loom.

South Korea and the United States launched a new round of war games on Monday involving tens of thousands of troops, despite threats of retaliation from North Korea.

Government Project 1956 on vocational training for rural workers through 2020 is the biggest ever project targeting rural workers.

An Apple employee has been charged with selling secrets to Asian suppliers of the tech giant, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday.

Mai Linh takes to the hills to explore a land that has been transformed from opium fields to a tea plantation paradise.

Many schools in Thua Thien - Hue are in dire need of renovation as the facilities are crumbling the ability to study.

The Government urged the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) to quickly issue new poverty standards.

The Vietnam pageant closed in Ha Long city and Hanoi's constestant Dang Thi Ngoc Han was crowned as the beauty queen.

Vietnam is among the Top 20 Internet-using countries in the world, according to the Royal Pingdom website monitoring service.

Australian scientists have discovered a cluster of brilliant shallow-water corals that could help in the search for anti-cancer drugs and to understand global warming.

The first-half report cards of property companies make for sorry reading as the commercial real-estate market remained depressed.

Vietnam Airlines re-launched its direct flights between Ho Chi Minh City and Japan’s Nagoya Friday.

The Vietnamese translation of Wayne Karlin’s Wandering Souls, a novel about the American War in Vietnam, has hit bookstores throughout the nation.

A newly-built facility of the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion was inaugurated on August 14 in Yen Hoa ward in Cau Giay district, Hanoi.

Roger Federer orchestrated a victory over nemesis Tomas Berdych for a place in Saturday ATP Toronto Masters semi-finals.

Citibank has cut a deal to arrange a credit of US$470 million for PetroVietnam Nhon Trach 2 power plant project.

Vietnam and Russia asserted the importance of continuing to maintain a strategic dialogue at their strategic dialogue on diplomatic, defence and security affairs.