VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnam is expected to produce six-in-one vaccines in 2017 or 2018 and by 2020 these will be used widely in the country, according to the health ministry.

The prices of RON 92 petrol and bio-fuel E5 remained unchanged, while diesel price 0.05S increased slightly in the first regular adjustment of petrol prices in 2017 on Wednesday.

A man armed with a kitchen knife stabbed 11 children at a kindergarten in southern China on Wednesday, seriously wounding three, state media reported, the latest such attack in recent years.

In 2017 HCM City will focus its spending on key construction works and seven breakthrough programmes like relocating people living along slums in canals and building new apartments replacing old, dilapidated ones, a conference heard yesterday.

The military high command in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong, on January 4, defused a 226kg bomb unearthed in the local Dak Song district.

Nearly 160 inmates escaped after suspected Muslim rebels attacked a jail in the southern Philippines before dawn Wednesday, and at least six people were shot dead as pursuing government forces traded fire with gunmen, officials said.

Vietnam has seen annual rises in imported meat, which has posed a challenge for domestic products and businesses.

A Hanoi Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) bus had it door broken after colliding with a car Wednesday morning.

Chairman of Vingroup Pham Nhat Vuong is still Vietnam's only dollar billionaire and has moved up on Forbes' billionaires list of the world's richest people.

Ho Chi Minh City’s communist youth union held a ceremony to honour the city’s 10 outstanding young citizens of 2016 in recognition of their significant contributions to local development over the past year.

Floods in two northeast Malaysian states have now forced almost 23,000 people from their homes and extra relief centres have been opened, rescue officials said Wednesday.

Churches, temples and pagodas in Hanoi have been asked to ring their bells to welcome the Lunar New Year, instead of the city’s firework displays as usual.

Experts said that it would be difficult for Vietnam to reach the CPI target of 4% in 2017 set by the National Assembly when the country still faces many macro-economic challenges.

Passenger buses and truck crashed into each other in Long Thanh District, Dong Nai Province, leaving at least 10 people injured on January 4.

Seals are being caught and killed by fishermen in the southern Binh Thuan Province despite the call to protect the animals from local authorities.

Thua Thien-Hue Province People's Committee has announced it will invest over VND40bn (USD1.7m) in the rattan craft.

A powerful earthquake struck off the coast of Fiji on Wednesday, prompting a brief tsunami warning for the Pacific island nation. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

Vietsovpetro - an oil and gas exploration joint venture between Vietnam and Russia - exploited 5 million tonnes of crude oil in 2016, generating yearly revenue of more than $1.7 billion, a decline of 28 per cent compared to 2015.

The Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) should continue promoting its key role as a State-run company in national power supply, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said at a conference in Hanoi on January 3.