VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnam’s export value to the US saw a considerable fall in January, which is partially blamed on US protectionist policies and restrictions on imports from many markets.

The Thang Long Water Puppetry Theatre will represent Vietnam for the first time to participate the Materia Prima–International Festival of the Form Theatre in Cracow, Poland.

Authorities in the central province of Quảng Nam have requested agencies to collect and inspect oil clumps that have soiled local beaches over the past week.

Vietnamese representative Nguyen Tien Dat entered Top 6 of Mister International 2017 on the final night in Bangkok, Thailand on February 13.

Seven people have died and 11 others in critical condition after eating at home in the northern province of Lai Chau on Monday evening.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked the Vietnamese and Greek governments to boost ties across marine-based economy, maritime navigation, shipbuilding, agriculture and tourism, adding that Vietnam is keen on enhancing ties with the European Union, including Greece.

The low barriers that HCM City's authorities installed to stop drivers driving on pavements have proved ineffective and are actually posing a danger to pedestrians.

A cruise ship carrying seven passengers caught fire while anchored on Ha Long Bay on Monday afternoon.

The first among 13 trains imported from China for Cat Linh-Ha Dong urban railway route in Hanoi has been transported to Vietnam.

Hanoi authorities propose to issue badges for Uber and Grab taxis as they currently do with traditional taxi companies.

The U.N. Security Council condemned North Korea's weekend missile launching in a statement on Monday.

The first Senior Officials’ Meeting of APEC (SOM1) and related meetings in 2017 will be organised in Nha Trang city, the south central province of Khanh Hoa, from February 18 to March 3.

Bac Ninh should strive to become Asia’s capital of electronics manufacturing and a symbol of Vietnam’s rise in field of electronics, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said at the province’s 185th anniversary celebrations.

The Mekong Innovative Start-up Tourism (MIST) Initiative has announced two new accelerators designed to make it easier and faster for innovative tourism businesses to get established in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam.

Dozens of households are at risk of losing their houses to beach erosion in the coastal province of Binh Thuan.

Residents at Home City Apartment Building in Hanoi are complaining about being cheated by the building's investor that is forcing them to use a longer route and smaller entrance to enter the building.

Taiwanese officials and media reports are blaming a cold spell for the deaths of more than 150 people, most of them elderly and sick, over the past several days.

Vietnam’s top tennis player Ly Hoang Nam will vie in the China F1 Futures scheduled to take place in Yunnan Province on February 15-21.

Made-in-China trucks which had once dominated the Vietnamese market are facing the slow sales since early 2016.