VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnam will participate in commemorating World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims for the first time.

Sunday will mark the 2010 Run for Children which is an event that raises funds to aid children suffering from poverty and illness.

Vietnam’s younger generation is where the future lies for banks and their credit cards

An Hien is widely considered as one of the largest and most beautiful garden houses in Vietnam's former capital of Hue.

After earlier disagreement, law-makers yesterday decided that whistleblowers should be protected in the new draft Law on Denunciation.

A miniature sloth, the "Asian unicorn" were Friday added to the Zoological Society of London's list of genetically distinct and endangered mammals.

Members of the two clubs, 'Leading the Future' and 'IHanoi', will present a photography exhibition entitled ‘Millennial Essence’ in Hanoi.

The Consulate of Vietnam has officially been inaugurated in Nagoya city, Aichi prefecture.

A Foreign Ministry spokesperson was critical of the US 2010 report on international religion released by the US Department of State on November 18.

Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said Rolls-Royce had indicated that "40 engines worldwide" needed to be replaced.

Seven European cultural institutions and embassies established the European Union of National Institutes for Culture in Vietnam.

Construction of Vietnam's largest liquefied petroleum gas refrigerated terminal with the total investment capital of $245 million began yesterday in Long An City.

Environmental inspectors on Tuesday started a one-week inspection of wastewater treatment at 15 large hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City

Heavy rains have continued slamming the central provinces of Vietnam, killing 19 and leaving 6 unaccounted for.

Zhan Tiehui grumbles about rising prices for garlic, ginger and cabbage and points a stubby finger in the direction of the United States.

Farmers in central Ha Tinh Province have threatened to sue a hydro-electricity station if it does not compensate them for their losses from floods that began in early October.

Vietnam has been recognised as a nation with high biodiversity, with over 13,200 species of flora and more than 10,000 species of fauna.

Three martial artists won silver medals in their final matches of the wushu sanshou competition at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China. 

Fresh rioting broke out in Haiti with one new fatality in a clash with UN peacekeepers blamed by some for the cholera outbreak.