VIETNAM TODAY

The Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training has requested Hoa Sen University to explain why a professor wore shorts during giving lectures.

Hanoi Opera House is scheduled to open tours from June 2017 to meet domestic and international tourists’ demand of visiting and learning about history, architecture and art.

Vietjet will launch its new domestic route from Hanoi to Dong Hoi in the central province of Quang Binh on June 1, with tickets priced from only VND99,000 (US$4.35), looking to meet increasing demand for travel between the two destinations.

The Vietnam Paralympic Association had a working session with authorities from the Japanese prefecture of Nagasaki to discuss the development of sports for people with disabilities in the two countries.

A subsidiary of the State-owned oil and gas group PetroVietnam and its foreign partners have secured a license to invest in a natural gas pipeline in the south of Vietnam, making it the largest foreign investment project approved this year.

75,000 people are dying from cancer every year and their families often face huge debts after their deaths.

Nearly 1,000 workers at a foreign invested footwear company in Ninh Binh Province have gone on strike to protest against the company's policies.

The Japan-Vietnam Friendship Association of Japan’s Kawasaki City donated more than 210 bicycles to poor students yesterday, the organisation’s annual charitable donation to Vietnam.

The United States pledged on Wednesday to step up sanctions to force North Korea to resume dialogue over its nuclear program, but said it was not looking to bring Kim Jong-Un's regime to its knees.

Authorities in the Mekong Delta Province of An Giang said the government should have policies to evacuate 20,000 households from erosion prone areas after 14 houses fell into Hau River on April 22.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his Lao counterpart Thongloun Sisoulith have agreed to give the top priority to nurturing the bilateral traditional friendship and special solidarity, regarding this as a vital and decisive factor to ensure the victory

A statue expressing sorrow for the participation of South Korea in the war in Vietnam has been set up on Jeru Island.

Foreign investors have poured 10.95 billion USD into new and operational FDI projects and to buy stakes in local companies in the first four months of 2017, up 40.5 percent from the same period last year, according to the

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAA) has proposed a VND19trn (USD848m) plan to upgrade Ho Chi Minh City's Tan Son Nhat Airport.

Vietnam has moved up two places from two years ago to 115th out of 188 countries and territories on the global human development index (HDI) rankings, according to a report released by the United Nations Development Programme.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his spouse started the official visit to Laos from April 26-27 at the invitation of Lao Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith.

Gui Xing Liang, 47, a Chinese national, was sentenced to two years in prison by the Hanoi People’s Court on April 25 for theft onboard a Vietnam Airlines flight last November.

People in the central province of Quang Binh have released rare animals back into the wilds of nearby Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park.

DTiNews readers have to date donated USD6,818 for a three-month-old boy in the central province of Quang Nam who has to use a milk catheter for survival due to Pierre Robin syndrome.