VIETNAM TODAY

Agreements are signed during the visit to Italy by President Nguyen Minh Triet.

Pepper imports into Vietnam are expected to soar fivefold to 10,000 tonnes this year, an industry report said on Monday.

Vietnam’s U23 football team defeated Singapore with an overwhelming score of 4-1 in the semi-final match Monday night.

Grand Alliance partners are to add a direct Vietnam call at Cai Mep deepwater port to their Asia East Coast Express service.

President Triet stressed that the Vietnamese State respects and secures citizens’ right to freedom of belief.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung embarked on a two-day official visit to the Russian Federation at the invitation of his Russian counterpart V. Putin.

Vietnam needs to move quickly toward sustainable aquaculture before it is too late, said organisers of an upcoming aquaculture conference.

US$45,000 was raised from a gala night during the 7th fund raising for charity in southern Binh Duong province.

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan finds that the market is likely to earn revenues of $82.1 million by 2015.

The Asian Development Bank has approved a proposal to extend a $325 million guarantee for a 13-year syndicated loan of $342 million to the state-run Vietnam Electricity Group, or EVN, to upgrade its power network.

With the record sales of over 12,000 vehicles in November, VAMA is optimistic about the outlook in December.

The quality of IT bachelor training at Vietnam National University, Hanoi has been recognised to meet ASEAN standard.

National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong called on parliamentarians of Asia-Pacific nations to intensify cooperation in policy and law making preventing HIV/AIDS.

Part 4 of a Tribune investigation finds that the U.S. has done little to clean up the sites it contaminated during the war.

Part 3 of a Tribune investigation finds that the role of defoliants in Vietnam's high rate of birth defects remains a contentious question decades after U.S. spraying missions ended.

Part 2 of a Tribune investigation finds that for many U.S. veterans, the bureaucratic fight to be compensated for health problems linked to Agent Orange amounts to a new and unexpected war.

Part 1 of a Tribune investigation finds that U.S. officials have neglected a lasting problem even as the health fallout has spread.

Despite the global economic downturn, Vietnamese trade is outpacing its outdated and overworked ports infrastructure.

Laura Lam, the overseas Vietnamese who has become a close friend with DTiNews, tells the story of why she wrote a book about the war in Viet Nam.