VIETNAM TODAY

A Buddhist monk has been arrested in Myanmar after authorities found more than 4 million methamphetamine pills in his car and in his monastery, police said Tuesday.

Leaders of the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (Molisa) say an updated forecast for 2017 shows the guest worker program is on solid ground.

Many ancient mahogany trees in Lang Street in Hanoi have had their bark stripped by vandals who are said to use this as a remedy for pruritus treatment.

The rate of workers returning to work at industrial zones after Tet Holiday have increased sharply.

Vehicle sales are forecasted to drastically fall in 2017 as customers await lower prices in 2018 when tariffs on car imports from ASEAN countries will be fully removed.

A cold spell is expected to hit the northern region later this week with temperatures in some mountainous areas falling to below 10 degrees.

While it can’t be ruled out that the Trans-Pacific Partnership members might eventually revive the agreement in an alternative configuration, it doesn’t seem probable at this time, HSBC wrote in its latest report.

Secretary of HCM City’s Party Committee Dinh La Thang urged the city's stock exchange to accompany the city’s key development programmes to turn HCM City into a leading financial centre for the country and the region.

Six Vietnamese athletes will compete in the eighth Asian Winter Games from February 19 to 27 in Sapporo, Japan, according to the Vietnam Sports Administration.

Lao Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith and a government delegation arrived in Vietnam on February 7 to attend the 39th meeting of the Vietnam – Laos Intergovernmental Committee at the invitation of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

Several cultural experts have protested about a barbaric buffalo hanging ritual after a photograph depicting the killing was recently posted online from a spring festival in Yen Bai Province last year.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc asked the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to set the target of raising the shrimp export value to US$10 billion by 2025.

The Syrian government has executed thousands of prisoners in mass hangings and carried out systematic torture at a military jail near Damascus, rights watchdog Amnesty International said on Tuesday.

Vietnam have lost to Hong Kong (China) in the first round of Davis Cup’s Group II, Asia Oceania zone, held in Ho Chi Minh City.

The 14th National Assembly Standing Committee (NASC) is expected to hold ten sessions this year, according to the recently released 2017 working programme.

HCM City’s Transport Department will start construction on two flyovers near Tan Son Nhat International Airport to help ease traffic congestion in the area.

Ha Long Bay authorities have found the body of an Australian tourist who fell off a boat tour on February 6.

Police detained one person Monday in connection with a fire at a foot massage parlour in China that killed at least 18 people and injured another 18, media said.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment responded to the World Wetlands Day with a ceremony in north-eastern Thai Binh province, stressing the role of wetlands in disaster risk reduction.