Vietnam came from behind to beat the Philippines 3-1 today after missing half a dozen chances at the opening game of the Southeast Asian Games in Indonesia. Filipino striker Manuel Ott opened the score for his side at the 37th minute following a short-range blast before Vietnam braced up their formation to score all three goals in the second half of the breathtaking match. Fourteen minutes in the second ses ...

Vietnamese ambassador to the USA, Nguyen Quoc Cuong paid a working visit to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from October 5-7, highlighted by a visit to the city's Chatham University. Chatham University, has chosen the 2011-2012 academic year as “the year of Vietnam” and plans to organise a number of activities to help American students learn more about Vietnamese history, culture and traditions. The university inv ...

The new policy on hospital fees, under which the prices for 350 services will rise, is still a draft. It will be checked carefully before being implemented, said Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien. Under this draft policy, the charges for around 350 services will increase from 2-2.5 folds on average and some up to 7-10 folds up from 2011 to 2012. The increase will be implemented in three phases at public h ...

European network operators, who have been pioneering in applying 4G technology, incline towards choosing 1800 MHz waveband, while Vietnamese Viettel believes that the 700 MHz waveband would be more suitable to the current conditions of Vietnam. At the LTE Conference and Exhibition Asia 2011, held recently in Singapore, speakers pointed out that European network operators now incline towards choosing 1800 MH ...

Vietnam, a one-party Communist state, has one of south-east Asia's fastest-growing economies and has set its sights on becoming a developed nation by 2020. It became a unified country once more in 1975 when the armed forces of the Communist north seized the south. This followed three decades of bitter wars, in which the Communists fought first against the colonial power France, then against South Vietnam an ...