VIETNAM TODAY

Asia’s biggest stainless- steel maker will likely bring forward a $200 million expansion of a Vietnam plant.

The number of applications increased over two times compared with last year and the quality of the competition products is also much better, said organisers.

Red-shirted protesters hurled plastic bags filled with liters of their own blood into the residence of the Thai prime minister.

One of Australia’s leading water safety groups is pioneering a program to try to curb preventable drowning deaths in Asia.

Vietnam is Russia’s faithful friend and priority partner in the Asia-Pacific region, says First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov.

The US Department of Commerce has announced that the average anti-dumping tariff applied to shrimp products exported by 29 Vietnamese companies will decrease from 4.57% to 2.89%.

The leader of an organized crime gang that operated across the China-Vietnam border was sentenced to 18 years in prison and fined 2.15 million yuan.

Export company Nexus Technologies Inc. pleaded guilty Tuesday to participating in a conspiracy to bribe Vietnamese government officials.

A multi-national private oil and gas consortium (SAONAM PETRO), the first of its kind in Vietnam , made its debut in Hanoi on March 16.

The ministry has warned that the A/H1N1 epidemic on humans is at high risk of recurence due to the public’s poor awareness of the fatal disease.

The country’s four key economic zones, with their booming development, have helped boost economic activity in the areas surrounding them.

Petrolimex has recently announced that petrol trading businesses are losing VND 700 for every litre of petrol they are selling.

Cai luong is struggling to keep its audiences, whose interests in the art form are being lost to modern entertainment in the cradle of its birthplace.

Mark Rapoport speaks about his artifact gallery in Hanoi and his particular deep interest in Vietnamese ethnic tribes.

A major aid initiative, backed by the Government here, has helped to identify an unusually high rate of hepatitis B infection in Vietnam.

A man who led a major ring that ripped off casinos throughout the U.S of up to $7 million was sentenced to 70 months in prison.

ANZ is looking for a buyer for its 10 percent stake in Vietnam's Sacombank, becoming the first foreign bank to sell its stake in a domestic lender.

The market is growing rapidly, but low per-capita spending limits potential returns, said a new report.

The company said it scheduled an initial Trade Mission beginning March 22 to Ho Chi Minh City.