VIETNAM TODAY

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Many families in HCMC are now able to enjoy cool air at home by leasing air-conditioners rather than buying new ones.

State President Nguyen Minh Triet received a business delegation from the Council of Saudi Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

A seminar was held in Phu Quoc island district in the southern province of Kien Giang to discuss how to develop tourism in the Mekong Delta region.

The iBoP project promotes scientific and technological initiatives for poverty reduction.

At least 80 people were killed when rebels derailed a train packed with sleeping passengers in eastern India Friday.

Thousands of fired up and sleep-deprived gadget fans mobbed shops in Australia and Japan Friday as Apple's iPad began its international launch.

Vietnam’s Audio Visual Global Co. JSC will lease 2.5 transponders on the SES World Skies NSS-6 satellite starting late this year.

Taipei-based Fortune Securities Corp has recently been approved to become a publicly listed company in Vietnam, a business source said Thursday.

A ceremony was held to receive the remains of 149 Vietnamese soldiers who lost their lives while serving in Cambodia.

The number of foreign tourists arriving in Vietnam this May increased by 50.3 percent year on year to 440,000.

A 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck off Vanuatu Friday, seismologists said, sparking a tsunami warning which was later cancelled.

An area of low pressure has formed over the north and northeast of the East Sea, reported the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting.

A Vietnamese man has been charged in federal court with conspiracy to manufacture and possess marijuana with intent to manufacture 1,000 or more marijuana plants.

Work on the casting of a bell in celebration of the 1,000th founding anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi began at Quang An pagoda in Hanoi.

The Government has introduced a master planning scheme to set up 16 marine protected areas by 2015.

The spokeswoman for the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has reiterated that Vietnam has indisputable sovereignty over the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos.

Stocks rocketed higher after China reassured investors it doesn't plan to sell the European debt it holds.

Speeding up the multi-faceted cooperation with Saudi Arabia is one of Vietnam’s priorities in its foreign policy towards the Middle East.