VIETNAM TODAY

"The Beauty of Humanity Movement" takes place in Hanoi and explores the country's recent past and present through the eyes of an elderly street vendor.

Professor Ngo Bao Chau has won the Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2010 held in India.

More than 410 tourism projects in central Binh Thuan Province have been seriously affected by titanium-exploitation projects.

The LOT Polish Airlines will open a new Hanoi-Warsaw direct flight route in mid-November.

A Vietnamese mathematician was elected to the International Mathematical Union’s Committee for Developing Countries.

Dancers and musicians of the Vietnam National Opera & Ballet Theater and Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra will be onstage in a special ballet concert.

German engineering firm Siemens began accepting entries Monday in its Green Technology Journalism Awards.

One look at Vietnamworks.com, a job and recruiting website in Vietnam, and it’s easy to see that the hunt is on for mid-level managers by local banks.

Most young Americans entering university this year can't write in cursive, think email is too slow, and that Beethoven's a dog.

Taekwondo athletes Nguyen Thanh Thao and Nguyen Quoc Cuong won a silver and a bronze medal for Vietnam at the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore.

Czech qualifier Iveta Benesova has stunned Serbian top seed Jelena Jankovic to reach the third round of the two million-dollar WTA Montreal Cup.

The Prime Minister has approved a VND 651 bil. maths development programme during the 2010-2020 period.

Residential developments located close to nature and with million dollar price tags have become a growing trend in Vietnam’s property market.

If Ty Cope had to write an essay about his summer vacation, he'd need more than one composition book.

The State Bank of Vietnam on August 17 decided to adjust interbank rate in an effort to curb trade gap.

Many patients with health insurance cards in Ho Chi Minh City have turned to private hospitals and health centers.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has praised the efforts and achievements the police force has made since its establishment in 1945.

Hanoi authorities have approved the sale of social housing to give low-income people an opportunity to buy in Hanoi.

The plastic industry is forecast to pocket US $1 billion in export revenue in 2010, said the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade.