VIETNAM TODAY

HCM City’s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism will organise and encourage a range of events to attract domestic and foreign tourists.

Liz French of the New Zealand Herald travels in Vietnam on one leg after getting hit by a car in Hanoi.

The “Vietnam Week” and a photo exhibition on Vietnam kicked off in Mexico as part of activities to mark 35 years of Vietnam-Mexico diplomatic ties.

A total of 22 countries around the world have to date recognised the market economy in Vietnam, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Cam Tu reported.

Jamaican forces claimed control of a slum in an offensive to capture an alleged drug kingpin, but fears mounted for civilians.

The Red River Delta province of Bac Ninh on May 26 inaugurated six works designed to treat exhaust fumes discharged from non-ferrous recycling furnaces.

A 23- hectare biotechnology center, cost US$100 million, started work on May 25 in the Trung My Tay Ward of District 12.

John Nutting thinks of his work building schools in Vietnam as a kind of healing.

The northern border province of Lang Son should focus on building a border gate economic zone, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

Vietnam's National Assembly is ready to share experience in law drafting and supervision with Palestine's legislative body, NA chairman Nguyen Phu Trong said.

Once a year, with his wife's blessing, Lau Minh Pao gets to have a guilt-free tryst with his ex.

Photographers' images, some of them chillingly beautiful, can only begin to hint at the enormity of the disaster.

Japan Asia Group will set up two funds in Vietnam and Japan in cooperation with Vietnamese partners, Thang Long Securities.

The Vietnam National Shipping Lines kicked off the construction of a 50,000 DWT wharf in Cam Ranh Seaport, Khanh Hoa Province.

The programme aims to turn Vietnam into one of the countries with the most progressive achievements in gender equality.

EU and ASEAN foreign ministers started talks on integration mechanisms and increasing cooperation in the economy, politics and security.

Floods from the upper Da and Hong rivers have broken many dykes and embankments in Hanoi.

Vietnamese customs inspectors have discovered more than a ton of elephant tusks hidden in a shipping container full of snail shells from Africa, an official said.

Rather than using a firing squad, execution will now be carried out by use of lethal injection, the National Assembly decided.