VIETNAM TODAY

Son Doong Cave continues to be explored, but future toursim development here is discouraged.

Deputy PM Nguyen Thien Nhan commended the "Top Ten Young Vietnamese" at an awards ceremony in Hanoi.

World-famous landmarks including the Pyramids, the Eiffel Tower and Beijing's Forbidden City will go dark Saturday as millions turn out the lights for "Earth Hour".

Cyber attacks and virus dangers have increased alarmingly in Vietnam with over 1,000 websites attacked last year, doubling from 2008.

China and India will contribute over 1 billion mobile Internet users by 2015, according to a new research.

Vietnam opened its consulate general in Houston city in the US state of Texas on March 25, making it the second of its kind.

People in need weren't provided rice while people who did not really need rice were during Tet in Nghe An Province.

According to recent government decrees, minimum wages, pensions, social insurance and monthly allowances will be increased.

A new cable car system in the southern province of Binh Phuoc will highlight its tourism potential and attract investor interest in eco-tourism projects.

European leaders closed a deal changing the eurozone's rule-book, with loans, backed by the IMF, primed for miscreants like Greece.

Following a warning from the US that the diarrhea vaccine Rotarix may contain a pig virus, the Drug Administration of Vietnam sent an official query to GSK Vietnam.

A fire started on March 24 on the 25th story of the Keangnam tower, which is still under construction, on Pham Hung Road, Hanoi.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has begun to distribute 137.8 million doses of bird flu vaccine to 42 provinces and cities nationwide.

The online exchange on March 25 with representatives for 20 of the top universities in the UK was a huge success.

The rainy and stormy season in 2010 is forecasted to develop in a very complicated manner.

The Criminal Science Institute, a division of the Ministry of Public Security, inaugurated the Gene Analysis Office inside the Criminal Science Sub-Institute in HCM City.

US President Barack Obama hopes to speak to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev within days, amid strong indications a new nuclear arms deal could be signed early next month

A Vietnamese team has won the first prize at the 13th Large Scale Integrated (LSI) Design Contest in Okinawa, Japan.

Vietnam's Ministry of Health called on people, governmental bodies at all levels and social agencies to join efforts to prevent and control tuberculosis.