VIETNAM TODAY

The Government has introduced a master planning scheme to set up 16 marine protected areas by 2015.

The spokeswoman for the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has reiterated that Vietnam has indisputable sovereignty over the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos.

Stocks rocketed higher after China reassured investors it doesn't plan to sell the European debt it holds.

Speeding up the multi-faceted cooperation with Saudi Arabia is one of Vietnam’s priorities in its foreign policy towards the Middle East.

Russian authorities on Thursday vowed to strike back after a bomb blast killed seven people and wounded dozens in the southern city of Stavropol.

HCM City’s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism will organise and encourage a range of events to attract domestic and foreign tourists.

Liz French of the New Zealand Herald travels in Vietnam on one leg after getting hit by a car in Hanoi.

The “Vietnam Week” and a photo exhibition on Vietnam kicked off in Mexico as part of activities to mark 35 years of Vietnam-Mexico diplomatic ties.

A total of 22 countries around the world have to date recognised the market economy in Vietnam, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Cam Tu reported.

Jamaican forces claimed control of a slum in an offensive to capture an alleged drug kingpin, but fears mounted for civilians.

The Red River Delta province of Bac Ninh on May 26 inaugurated six works designed to treat exhaust fumes discharged from non-ferrous recycling furnaces.

A 23- hectare biotechnology center, cost US$100 million, started work on May 25 in the Trung My Tay Ward of District 12.

John Nutting thinks of his work building schools in Vietnam as a kind of healing.

The northern border province of Lang Son should focus on building a border gate economic zone, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

Vietnam's National Assembly is ready to share experience in law drafting and supervision with Palestine's legislative body, NA chairman Nguyen Phu Trong said.

Once a year, with his wife's blessing, Lau Minh Pao gets to have a guilt-free tryst with his ex.

Photographers' images, some of them chillingly beautiful, can only begin to hint at the enormity of the disaster.

Japan Asia Group will set up two funds in Vietnam and Japan in cooperation with Vietnamese partners, Thang Long Securities.

The Vietnam National Shipping Lines kicked off the construction of a 50,000 DWT wharf in Cam Ranh Seaport, Khanh Hoa Province.