VIETNAM TODAY

G20 leaders Sunday closed in on a deal to slash national deficits within three years.

Teaching Khmer language in parallel with Vietnamese in pagodas in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang is developing strongly, especially in summer holidays.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung held meetings with the PM of the Netherlands and attended a tripartite meeting with Indonesian President and the ASEAN General Secretary.

Fishermen in Ha Tinh learned an important lesson on co-operation when they were caught in a storm last September.

Electricity of Vietnam Group said June 25 that its power supply would be better by the second week of July, thus blackout would be minimized.

Leaders of the Group of 20 developed and emerging nations opened talks in Toronto late Saturday.

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved four credits totaling 456.5 million USD in support of Vietnam ’s development efforts.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung arrived in Toronto, Canada, on Tuesday evening to attend G20 summit at the invitation of Canadian PM Stephan Harper.

The leaders of the world\'s richest nations warned Saturday the global recovery was still fragile.

The research on Hanoi’s urban transportation system plans revealed that public transport was the vital factor for sustainable development.

Mass deaths of wildlife in Tra Khuc River have led to major changes for some companies.

The State Audit of Vietnam and Ernst & Young Vietnam signed a cooperative agreement in Hanoi on June 25 on cooperation on an equal and mutually-beneficiary basis.

Europe and the United States tried to bridge differences over how to sustain fragile global economic recovery.

Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (VVAF) donated 54 wheelchairs to Ha Nam Bureau’s hospital on 25 June.

Foreign direct investment (FDI) disbursement in June reached US$900 million, lifting the total figure in the first half of the year to $5.4 billion.

The export of precious stones and metals in June is expected to hit US$350 million, announced the General Statistics Office (GSO) on June 24.

Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang has instructed major energy providers to raise their power supply capacity.

State President Nguyen Minh Triet affirmed that the National Assembly had always listened to voters’ opinions.

In part 13 of the Ho Chi Minh series, Laura writes about his return to Asia from Russia in 1924.