VIETNAM TODAY

Quang Nam and Sekong provinces have agreed to step up projects to upgrade their transport infrastructures and boost socio-cultural cooperation in 2010.

All golf course projects across the country will be inspected, and many of them will be canceled, according to a report submitted to the National Assembly.

A man in a drunken state climbed up a high voltage power pole in Nghe An and fell asleep.

The Doha round of trade talks would be an important step in building and developing a freer and fairer world trade system, according to PM Dung.

Saigontourist Travel Service Company welcomed the five-star cruiser liner SuperStar Virgo with 3,188 passengers and crew on board.

G-20 finance ministers and central bank governors applauded contributions by Vietnam, in its capacity as ASEAN representative.

The European Union will give 940 million euros (about $1 billion) in aid to Vietnam this year.

Southeast Asia's largest property developer, CapitaLand, is doubling its real estate investments in Vietnam to up to US$2.5 billion.

Calling it the "biggest leap since the original iPhone," Apple chief exec Steve Jobs proudly unveiled the widely expected iPhone 4.

The spectre of hooliganism and crowd trouble stalked the World Cup countdown as a group of hardcore fans were deported.

A high-level Vietnamese delegation left Hanoi for the third Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia slated for June 7 and 8 in Turkey.

Food poisoning has affected 704 persons, including ten fatalities in the country in last month, released by Vietnam Ministry of Health on June 6.

Marubeni Corporation has been awarded a contract for construction of Nghi Son Coal Fired Thermal Power Plant with the total gross capacity of 600MW.

Members of the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force and the United States Navy have come together to provide medical care to the people of Vietnam.

BP says the cost of the company's response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has reached about $1.25 billion.

Vietnamese President called on his people to protect the country’s seas and islands at the 2010 Vietnam Sea and Island Festival.

The carcass of a critically endangered Javan rhino had been found in Indonesia, bringing the the world’s scarcest mammal one step closer to extinction.

Corruption is an act of stealing from the poor, experts said at a World Economic Forum session focusing on East Asia held yesterday in HCM City.

With the reduction of interest to holidays in Thailand, Vietnam seems to have managed to attract to their sights those who are accustomed to rest in South-East Asia.