VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnamese young people and 20 Chinese students studying at Hanoi and Hai Phong universities started a friendship cycling tour from Hanoi to Nanning, China.

The chairmen of Ha Giang Province and Vinashin Group are among officials to be punished for serious violations.

One year after the implementation of the new medical insurance, cardholders are still encountering annoyance.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung has ordered related authorities to conduct comprehensive solutions to fight the drought crisis.

More than 60 delegates from the Asia-Europe Meeting gathered in HCM City on July 5 to discuss ways to ensure food security in sustainable manner.

A python used by a South African fortuneteller to control the progress of teams in the World Cup has been seized by animal welfare inspectors.

Despite safety improvements, traffic deaths are still an alarming issue at 30 deaths per day on average.

Under blazing temperatures parents are left to sweat outside while their children sweat from stress over exams inside.

A Vietnamese Government programme to send poor workers abroad is back on track following a recovery in the global demand for labour.

Vinashin is worth an over VND 90 trillion but is in about VND 80 trillion of debt, according to a government official.

Toyota started recalling more than 90,000 luxury Lexus and Crown vehicles Monday in Japan over defective engines.

The Travel Channel will discontinue airing an episode of a culinary reality show that promotes illegal wildlife meat consumption in Vietnam.

Hanoi People's Committee has required local authorities to strengthen inspections on brick production at traditional kilns across the city to curb environmental pollution.

Suffering a long-term fall in sales and a collapse in revenue, newspapers worldwide are being forced to reinvent themselves for the Internet age.

The Vietnam and Laos Ministries of Health co-organised a seminar on July 3-4 to discuss measures to boost cooperation in the healthcare sector.

The central Vietnamese provinces need over VND350 billion (US$18.3 million) to deal with the current drought, an official said.

A festival atmosphere has been palpable on the streets of HCM City recently, as the infectiousness of World Cup 2010 fever has swept away sports fans.

Blackouts have continued in HCM City, despite commitments by national power supplier Electricity of Vietnam not to cut power anymore.

Candidates of group A (math, physics, and chemistry) and V (math, physics and a field specific subject) sat for their first day of the university entrance examination.