VIETNAM TODAY

As many as 490 foreigners have registered for electronic visas to enter Vietnam after the first week of the e-visa pilot scheme, the Ministry of Public Security’s Department of Immigration has said.

Rescuers defied a shark threat to form a human chain in a New Zealand bay on Saturday in a bid to keep another 200 whales from becoming stranded a day after hundreds died in a mass beaching.

Around 81,000 people in HCM City need accommodation each year in the 2016-2020 period as the city continues to attract people from the countryside, according to the HCM City Real Estate Association.

The Ministry of Health has just raised warnings about the possibility of chickenpox outbreak in Hanoi.

Shares of the VietJet Aviation Joint Stock Company (VietJet Air) will be officially listed on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) on February 28.

A powerful nighttime earthquake in the southern Philippines killed at least three people, injured about 80 others, damaged buildings and an airport and knocked out power, officials said Saturday.

Vietnam plans to invest in its transport infrastructure comprehensively while linking development strategies among sectors in order to develop a multi-modal transport environment, making the country the gateway connecting Southeast Asia to the Indian Ocean.

The second meeting between Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and the Vietnamese business community is due at the end of March in Ha Noi.

The vegetarian food market is becoming more busy on the first full moon of the lunar year.

The Southern Regional Hydro-Meteorological Centre has forecasted that HCM City may be flooded because of high tides on February 12 and 13.

Japanese police have arrested six men on charges of child pornography involving the abuse of at least 168 boys, Japanese media reported on Friday.

The National Traffic Safety Committee has asked Hanoi police to investigate a state-owned blue number-plated car which was found travelling along a lane reserved for the bus rapid transit.

The 2017 Da Nang International Fireworks Competition will be made into a nearly two-month festival taking place from April 29 to June 24 with assorted activities rather than a two-day competition as in previous years.

Viet Nam was named the nation facing the second-highest level of cyber security risk in Asia Pacific markets by a Microsoft Asia report on Thursday.

Authorities in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Đồng Tháp will continue to closely monitor the illegal breeding of crawfish, which has caused serious damage to crops in the area.

Chinese investment into Vietnam has been on a sharp rise, putting the country among the top ten foreign investors in Vietnam.

Businesses in Hanoi's West Lake will be shut down for dredging and water quality improvement plans.

Ho Chi Minh City will put up more road signs written in English to serve foreign tourists, an official of the city’s Department of Transport has said.

A 77-year-old man in Ha Nam Province is helpless as his son may die from cancer and his wife is struggling with heart disease.