VIETNAM TODAY

Major Japanese trading house Sumitomo Corp. is considering becoming a player in Vietnam's water management industry.

Vietnamese students will have a chance to share their perspectives on regional issues at a conference in association with Harvard University.

A northerly cold front moving towards Vietnam should bring medium to heavy rainfall to the northern part of the country.

Over 60 Danish families along with their Vietnamese adopted children gathered at a meeting hosted by the Vietnamese Embassy in Denmark.

Cancer could claim 13.3 million lives a year by 2030, the World Health Organisation's cancer research agency said Tuesday.

Vietnamese youth enjoy a much better standard of living than they did just five years ago, according to a new survey.

On the occasion of International Children's Day, Hanoi Medical University organised a charity musical performance to help children with harelip.

President Nguyen Minh Triet received a delegation of US writers, poets and researchers of the Vietnamese culture, in Hanoi.

45 years after their last letter, pen pals Linda Brondollar (U.S.) and Lang Nguyen (Vietnam) are reunited.

The World Economic Forum on East Asia 2010, slated for June 6-7 in Ho Chi Minh City, will highlight the rising role of Asia.

With a close proximity to the natural heritage site Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park, Chay Lap is firmly on the tourist map.

Ly Thuy Trang is a student, who sells cakes for a living in markets and always keeps her books close to her side.

Cavico will extract and process the stone from the Nui Tao Stone Mine, and then market the stones to customers in Vietnam.

CKE Restaurants, Inc. opened its first Carl’s Jr. restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam this week.

Over 200 housing projects for low-income people and industrial workers are currently in desperate need of investment funding.

Russia has been chosen as a partner in the construction of Vietnam's first nuclear power plant to be built in the southern province of Ninh Thuan.

Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama tearfully resigned, his brief reign derailed by a row over an unpopular US airbase.

More than US$10 million have been raised so far this year to help the victims of storms and floods in the Central and Highland regions.

An exhibition of Vietnamese ceramics spanning 1,000 years and several dynasties has opened at the Ho Chi Minh City Museum.