VIETNAM TODAY

January 10 welcomed the opening of a new street in Can Tho Province, devoted to people and shopping, not cars.

The State Bank of Vietnam has ordered a state-owned company to stop printing toy money.

Though a doctor in her native Vietnam, Thuy Ho, was unable to practice medicine upon arriving in the United States in 2001.

A United Arab Emirates sheikh was acquitted Sunday of charges connected to the videotaped beating and torture of an Afghan grain dealer.

There's no stopping "Avatar's" "shock-and-awe" performance at the box office. For the fourth weekend in a row, it was No. 1 with $48.5 million.

Police in Hong Kong said they have arrested one man in connection with an acid attack that injured 30 people at a popular tourist haunt.

Vietnam is currently considered the most attractive manufacturing location in Asean in terms of wages and raw materials.

On the morning of the elephant races in Buon Don Village, you can feel the excitement on the streets of Buon Ma Thuot.

Research suggests there will be a series of challenges to the Mekong’s future ecological health.

Vietnam is hoping to earn at least US$200 million in exports to Egypt this year, up 25 percent on 2009.

 

Linwood woman is founder of an organisation that assists fellow Vietnamese adoptees to learn about their past.

The Enterprise Agreement for licensed software standardisation signed by FPT Corporation in 2006 has been extended.

It can be argued that the traditional wedding protocol of Lo Lo village does not exist anymore.

The new electricity company is expected to produce 20 percent of the national electric power by 2025.

Vietnam’s export turnover in 2009 fell by 11 percent against 2008, posing a great challenge for the export-oriented country.

A Worcester man who lost his wife to cancer will bike through Vietnam and Cambodia to raise money in her memory.

The Grand Alliance consortium has introduced a direct shipping service between Vietnam and the US east coast from the port of Cai Mep.

Snow and freezing weather swept parts of Europe on Saturday causing travel chaos for thousands and forecasters predicted no let-up in Britain's harshest cold snap in 30 years.