VIETNAM TODAY

The Ministry of Transport has changed plans for the north-south highway project due to capital shortages. Only around 600km of the total route will be built first.

Shopping in-store is still the dominant means of buying apparel in Asia-Pacific, including Vietnam, according to the latest study from YouGov, an international Internet-based market research firm.

Education and Training Minister Phung Xuan Nha said he would take responsibility for a 13-fold increase in school violence over the past 10 years.

A full moon and comet share double billing in a special night sky show this weekend.

A Chinese bank branch established in the so-called Sansa city on Phu Lam island in Vietnam’s Hoang Sa archipelago is illegal, stated Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Le Hai Binh.

Several ministries and experts have asked the Ministry of Finance to reconsider its proposed environmental tax rise on petrol.

As from this coming March 28, Vietnam Airlines has announced it will be offering three weekly flights from Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi to Sydney, the state capital of New South Wales in Australia.

Vietnamese representative Minh Tu has come to Singapore to compete at Asia's Next Top Model 2017, according to Kenh14.vn online newspaper.

Doctors at Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City have successfully performed the country’s first living paired-kidney exchange transplant.

Vietnam will auction a Boeing aeroplane which has been abandoned at Noi Bai International Airport for 10 years by a Cambodian airline.

The Philippines is seeking US and Chinese help to guard a major sea lane as Islamic militants shift attacks to international shipping, officials said Wednesday.

The Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) will continue to hold a monopoly on power distribution and retail sale through the management and control of power distribution and retail trade companies in the form of one-member limited liability companies.

Five more venues to facilitate lethal injections will be built in Vietnam in the coming time according to the Ministry of Public Security.

Designer Luong Minh Son, founder of fashion brand Son Collection, will introduce traditional Vietnamese silk to the world at the upcoming New York Fashion Week.

Over 40 elephants in Dak Lak Province have been left exhausted after being forced to overwork through the lunar new year holiday period.

The State-run Vietnam Computerized Lottery Co. Ltd. (Vietlott) recently announced its preliminary report on the business results for the 2016 fiscal year.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has urged ministries and agencies to improve the country’s business environment so that it can be equal to Thailand and Singapore by the end of this year.

KUALA LUMPUR: Thirteen people are feared dead after the speedboat they were travelling in capsized in rough seas off Malaysia, the coast guard said on Wednesday (Feb 8), in the latest maritime accident in the area.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has recently submitted a list of seven additional loss-making projects to the government, raising the ministry’s total number of failing projects to 12.