VIETNAM TODAY

Twelve workers died following an explosion in a high-speed rail tunnel in southwestern China, state media said on Wednesday, after rescuers spent over 14 hours searching the rubble for survivors.

Thirteen fishermen whose boat sank after colliding with a cargo ship off the southern coastal province of Binh Dinh have been safely brought to shore, according to local authorities.

The draft circular to guide the implementation of certain clauses of Decree No.03/2017/ND-CP issued by the government on casino business has no clause restricting which casino in which region can pilot opening to Vietnamese customers.

Japanese manufacturers regard Southeast Asia as the most important region for their business but are wary about labor shortages and pollution, according to a recent survey by Japan’s Mizuho Research Institute revealed to Nikkei.

Experts have objected to several provisions of a draft decree on foreign investment in education saying they need further clarification and revision.

North Korea on Wednesday confirmed the arrest of a US professor for trying to "overturn" the regime, as tensions spike between the isolated nuclear-armed nation and Washington.

Vietnamese Ambassador to the US, Pham Quang Vinh, has affirmed Vietnam’s desire to further strengthen its comprehensive partnership with the US, at recent meetings with elected US officials in Washington DC.

Police in the central province of Quang Tri have detained a group of men for the attempted sale of a live 300 kg bomb.

As many as 13,102 new enterprises were established in April, the highest figure in the past 12 months, representing a month-on-month rise of 8.9 percent, according to the General Statistics Office.

A total of 125 traffic accidents occurred across the country, claiming 98 lives and leaving 90 injured during the four-day holiday from April 29 to May 2, according to the National Traffic Safety Committee.

China's plan to blast open more of the Mekong River for bigger cargo ships could founder on a remote outcrop of half-submerged rocks that Thai protesters have vowed to protect against Beijing's economic expansion in Southeast Asia.

The Civil Aviation of Vietnam has approved a proposal by the Hai Phong People’s Committee to build the second terminal of Cat Bi Airport since the first terminal is projected to be soon overloaded.

The national index of industrial production was estimated to rise 7.4 per cent in April, the Vietnam News Agency reports.

The Dai Nam Joint Stock Company has just opened an international standard racecourse invested at more than 2 trillion VND (87.9 million USD) in the southern province of Binh Duong.

Ahmed Abdelsattar was 14 when Islamic State swept into Mosul and declared a caliphate in 2014. Fearing he would be indoctrinated and sent to fight by the militants, his parents took him out of school.

Deputy PM, FM Pham Binh Minh will pay an official visit to Japan and co-chair the 9th meeting of the Vietnam-Japan Cooperation Committee from May 8-10, the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry announced Friday.

Police in Quang Ninh Province have issued a fine to the owners of a 40-seated bus after finding it was carrying 70 passengers.

The International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday oil exporting countries in the Middle East continue to have the world's largest energy subsidy bill and that additional reforms are still needed to curb government spending.

A fisherman was killed and another injured after their boat was sunken by a foreign cargo ship in the southern coastal province of Binh Dinh on Monday.