VIETNAM TODAY

Ho Chi Minh City has ordered online game businesses to pause providing their services to all public internet shops from 10pm to 8am on following day.

A seminar on institutional reform was held on September 9 in Hanoi with the participation of policy makers, researchers and foreign advisors.

Japan's economy expanded more than first thought in the April-June quarter, soothing fears that a fragile recovery could grind to a halt.

Vietnam will participate in the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Bio-safety and the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Professional golf in Vietnam will break new ground this year when it witnesses its first ever match play tournament at the Mercedes-Benz Masters Vietnam.

The Government Inspectorate has accused the Ministry of Health of wasting money when it purchased Tamiflu in 2005 at double the market rate.

More than 500 containers (23-25 tons per container) of imported food have been stuck at Cat Lai Port in Ho Chi Minh City for the last week.

Vietnam ranks 59th in the Global Competitiveness Report 2010-2011 of the World Economic Forum, up 16 steps over last year’s report.

Many Asian students who walk into South Philadelphia High will be carrying something besides books.

Poland wants to expand and strengthen its traditional friendship and long-term and all-round cooperation with Vietnam, said Polish PM Donald Tusk.

The project on poverty reduction in northern mountainous provinces launched its second phase with 150 million USD in loans from the World Bank.

A suicide car bomber hit the central market of Vladikavkaz, killing at least 17 and wounding more than 130 people.

A new law becomes active next month, aiming to prevent unreasonable price hikes for imported milk. However, it has prompted companies to do just that.

Global economic recovery is slowing faster than expected and extra stimulus from governments may be needed, the OECD warned.

Environmental police from Phu Tho Province have found a Korean-owned company discharging untreated waste water into the Red River in Viet Tri City.

Prices of around 19 foreign drugs have soared, said the Vietnam Pharmaceutical Companies Association

Vietnam expects to earn US$5.2 billion from footwear exports in 2010.

Ethnic H’mong children in Muong Nhe District, Dien Bien Province are facing numerous obstacles on the path to school as their parents are still trying to make ends meet.

The UK and Vietnam signed a joint bilateral strategic partnership further strengthening ties between the two nations.