VIETNAM TODAY

The US Embassy in Hanoi and the US Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City will require all non-immigrant visa applicants to complete a new, electronic, web-based form.

An Islamist group from Russia's restive Caucasus region has claimed responsibility for this week's deadly twin suicide bombings in Moscow.

The sixth annual Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival is set to take place April 8-11 in the city’s September 30 Park in District 1.

Hoan Kiem District's police haven been assigned to investigate scamming problems around Hoan Kiem Lake, said an official.

Seventy-five countries accounting for more than 80 percent of greenhouse gases from energy use have filed pledges to cut or curb carbon emissions by 2020.

The trial involving the construction of Dien Bien Phu Victory Statue has been postponed due to many ambiguous details.

A Vietnamese commercial counselor to the US has said the US' final determinations in the antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on imports of plastic bags from Vietnam were unfair.

A suicide bomber set off one of two blasts that killed 13 people in Kizlyar City two days after attacks in Moscow left 39 dead.

The International Air Transport Association released statistics showing that February 2010's international scheduled air traffic strengthened with demand.

A Spokesman for the US Department of State has confirmed Vietnam’s commitment to expanding its programme of nuclear power for civil use in a responsible manner.

The newly appointed Country Manager of Microsoft Vietnam is committed to contributing to further development of local IT industry.

DTiNews has been receiving hundreds of complaints from Vietnamese people everywhere on tourist scams in Hanoi.

Leftist FARC rebels released one of their longest held captives, a soldier kidnapped 12 years ago, the Red Cross said after receiving the hostage in the Colombian jungle.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam has cancelled the operating license of Viva Macau, which had previously suspended its flights to the country.

Cavico's scope of work will be to excavate 700,000 cubic meters and refill 550,000 cubic meters of earth needed for the road base and drainage for the highway.

The railway sector needs to train more than 6,500 employees overseas in order to enable them to operate the North-South express railway.

Vietnam and Australia have set up an agency to combat transnational crimes like terrorism, drugs and weapons trafficking, and economic crimes.

Texting while driving a motorcycle in heavy traffic in Vietnam has got public health officials worried.

Russia's PM Vladimir Putin ordered security forces to snare the masterminds of the metro bombings that killed 39, saying they should be "scraped out" from the bottom of sewers.