VIETNAM TODAY

Hanoi will offer additional 4,000 high-quality hotel rooms this year to serve the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi and National Tourism Year 2010.

Economic growth and inflation would become topics of focus during the upcoming session of the National Assembly, said an official.

Seven children and a teacher were hacked to death with a cleaver in an attack at a kindergarten in northern China on Wednesday.

President Nguyen Minh Triet began a two-day visit to Kalmykia on May 11 at the invitation of Kalmyk President Kirsan Iliumzhinov.

Soc Trang Province plans to spend VND60 billion this year to bring clean water to more than 20,000 poor Khmer households.

The university announced that students who want to enroll will have to take VGU's own specific entrance exam.

Youths in Ho Chi Minh City have the chance on May 15 to attend a seminar addressing "dream career orientation".

Authorities are looking forward to turning Hue's Buddhist culture into an attractive tourism resource.

Global Witness claims Singapore is expanding its coastline with irresponsibly dredged sand from Cambodia.

A Vietnamese week will take place in Cuba and Mexico from May 21 to June 5, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

The Vietnamese delegation attended the 5th Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts and Islands in France with the participation of over 700 delegates from 80 countries.

The Vietnam-based subsidiary of Fubon Insurance Co opened a new branch in Binh Duong Province.

SIM card agencies for EVN Telecom have been discovered for forging their customer database.

David Cameron finally took office as British premier Tuesday, ending his Conservative party's 13 years in opposition

A court upheld jail terms for two men convicted of “working to overthrow the people’s administration” and cut another defendant’s sentence after his appeal for clemency.

UPS and P&T Express have established UPS Vietnam as a joint stock company to expand UPS's footprint and better serve customers in Vietnam.

The German football club Eintracht Frankfurt arrived in Hanoi on May 11 to prepare for a friendly against the Vietnamese National squad.

Climate change could make much of the world too hot for human habitation within just three centuries, research released Tuesday showed.

The World Tourism Organisation will assist Vietnam in mulling policies and long-term plans for tourism development and training human resources.