VIETNAM TODAY

The internationally-acclaimed band Bad Boys Blue cancelled their upcoming concert in Vietnam after the group was involved in an accident in Russia, and singer John McInerney suffered severe injuries.

Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen, Vietnamese Ambassador to Cambodia Thach Du and Vice Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Van Suu cut the ribbon to officially open the Phnom Penh - Hanoi Friendship Avenue in Phnom Penh

Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Mark Dybul has pledged support to Vietnam to sustainably maintain achievements in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

Many areas of the West Lake are being covered with rubbish left after floating restaurants were removed.

In a proposal submitted to the Da Nang Department of Information and Communications, the local Traffic Safety Committee wrote that the unauthorized operations of Uber and Grab could worsen traffic in the city.

India's national airline claimed Monday to have set a new record with the first round-the-world flight staffed entirely by women.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc expressed his delight at the sturdy growth of the Vietnamese and Lao parliaments’ cooperation while meeting with Lao National Assembly Chairwoman Pany Yathotou in Hanoi on March 6.

Ha Temple-Thuong Temple-Y La Temple Festival will be held on a grand scale in the northern province of Tuyen Quang to mark it being recognised as a national festival.

The National Centre for Hydrometeorological Forecasting (NCHMF) has launched a Finnish-funded project to improve the accuracy of rainfall measurements and lightning storm forecasts at Pha Din radar station in the northern province of Dien Bien’s Tuan Giao district.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade held a ceremony to launch the 2017 Earth Hour campaign in Vietnam with the message ‘Lights off to turn on the future’.

A Vietnamese cargo vessel that managed to evade a speedboat carrying armed gunmen in Philippines waters has now been safely escorted to Sandakan City in Malaysia.

Dantri/DTiNews Newspaper held a ground-breaking ceremony for three classrooms in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang.

A unique painting exhibition displaying art works of people with autism is opening in downtown Hanoi.

Vietnam’s import-export revenue has increased four-fold in the past decade after joining the WTO, the General Department of Customs reports.

A Malaysian lawyer came to Vietnam to meet with the family of Doan Thi Huong, the Vietnamese suspect in the killing of North Korean citizen Kim Chol in Malaysia.

Three of the four missiles North Korea launched Monday landed in Japanese-controlled waters, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said, calling the development a "new stage of threat".

Leaders of the National Assembly met in Hanoi on Sunday with female ambassadors and heads of representative offices of international organisations in Vietnam on the occasion of International Women’s Day (March 8).

One person was killed and several others injured on Sunday when a powerful aftershock hit a southern Philippine city still recovering from a quake last month, authorities said.