VIETNAM TODAY

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Wednesday held phone talks with the Republic of Korea’s Acting President and PM Hwang Kyo Ahn on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and the Northeast

Many children in a remote mountainous commune in the central province of Quang Nam are struggling at school, after being given responsibility by their parents to look after younger siblings.

Indian police said Wednesday they had recovered more than 6,000 freshwater turtles weighing over four tonnes from poachers who planned to smuggle them to Southeast Asia, in the country's largest-ever wildlife haul.

The upcoming visit to China of Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng from January 12 to 15 is aimed at further strengthening Vietnam-China ties and defining the long-term direction of their healthy and stable development.

The total number of automobiles sold in 2016 reached 304,427 units, the highest level recorded by Vietnam’s auto market in the past 20 years, the Vietnam Automobiles Manufacturers Association announced.

HCM City to organise balloon flights for visitors for the first time during the Tet Holiday.

Vietnam is at risk of running out of skilled managers, according to Navigos Search, while highly-qualified IT engineers with good English and managerial skills have headed overseas to work.

Dantri/DTiNews and the Vietnam Maritime Administration's Trade Union office have provided gifts for many families from Chut ethnic minority group in the central province of Ha Tinh.

A South Korean special prosecutor's office will question Samsung Group [SAGR.UL] leader Jay Y. Lee as a suspect in the widening influence-peddling scandal that led to a parliamentary vote to impeach President Park Geun-hye.

The United Nations (UN) should prioritise building a strategy for conflict prevention in the long run, said a Vietnamese diplomat.

The Asian Football Confederation says the continent deserves to be among the chief recipients of extra World Cup places following FIFA's decision to expand the event to 48 teams.

Ministry of Public Security's Economic Police Unit has arrested and prosecuted seven former leaders of Trust Bank in a corruption case involving trillions of VND.

Over 90 per cent of Vietnamese suffer from dental disease and 85 per cent of Vietnamese children have tooth decay, according to the National Hospital of Odonto-Stomatology.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife will pay an official visit to Vietnam from January 16-17.

Major Vietnamese banks, including Vietinbank, Vietcombank and BIDV, have reported high profits in 2016.

An American-Vietnamese collector, Trần Thắng, has donated to the Hoàng Sa (Paracel) Island District the Pattie De La Conchinchine, an 1827 map printed in the six-volume World Atlas (Atlas universel) by Belgium cartographer Phillippe Vandermaelen (1795-1869).

Vietnam always wants to further educational cooperation with the US as it is deploying three breakthrough tasks, such as improving qualifications of human resources, for rapid and sustainable development, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has said.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will attend a Middle East peace conference organized by France and to be held in Paris on Jan. 15, his spokesman said on Tuesday.

The land prices in some outer districts of HCM City including Binh Chanh, Binh Tan, and District 9 have increased by 20-40% in 2016, according to real estate developer and service provider CBRE.