VIETNAM TODAY

Farmers in the Central Highland province of Gia Lai are destroying their coffee plantations to grow sacha inchi plants believing they will gain better returns.

The State Bank of Vietnam has ceased issuing treasury bills and begun pumping capital totaling VND22 trillion ($966.46 million) into the market via open market operations in the last three weeks.

Vietnamese living in the Republic of Korea numbered 147,295 by the end of November, accounting for about 7.4 percent of the total expatriates in the country.

An elderly Hong Kong man died on Christmas Day from bird flu, the government said on Tuesday, the first human infection in the city this winter.

President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Nguyen Thien Nhan has suggested establishing a website on overseas startups involving young Vietnamese, and organizing an annual dialogue to attract Vietnamese students from abroad.

The new joint United Kingdom and Australia Visa Application Centre has been inaugurated in the central city to help those in central Vietnam apply for UK and Australian visas.

There will be no Fidel Castro streets or plazas in Cuba, in keeping with the late revolutionary leader's wishes, as spelled out in a law Cuban legislators passed on Tuesday.

Police in Tây Ninh Province and HCM City have arrested two women and a man for allegedly trafficking women to China.

China has authorised 22 Vietnamese businesses to export rice into its market, Vietnam’s Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development announced.

China vowed Tuesday to speed up the development of its space industry as it set out its plans to become the first country to soft land a probe on the far side of the moon, around 2018, and launch

The Prime Minister has directed the designation of a specific mechanism for Long Thanh International Airport in the southern province of Dong Nai.

Thanks to the lobbying efforts of relevant agencies, non-government organisations (NGO) in Vietnam have contributed remarkably to the country’s poverty alleviation, resolving social issues and bolstering sustainable development.

Indian police arrested four men, including a bell boy of a five-star hotel in the national capital, on Monday for allegedly raping an American tourist in April, police said, highlighting the dangers faced by women in the country from

Police have concluded that the reason behind a shooting in the northern province of Yen Bai that killed two of its top leaders was due to personal discontent over personnel assignment.

Natural disasters and environmental pollution can reduce GDP by 0.6 per cent per year from 2016-20, according to the National Centre for Socio-economic Information and Forecast under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

Local authorities of the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong’s Dat Lat City have approved a plan that intends to see the city be transformed into Southeast Asia’s top vegetable producer.

Vo Kim Cuong, former deputy head of the HCM City Chief Architect's Office, blamed urban planning for severe congestion in the city.

World football governing body FIFA has ranked Vietnam at No 32 in the women’s category.

Vietnamese Agent Orange victims have had their first cultural house for the first time after a ceremony handing the Cultural House of the Rehabilitation and Nursing Centre to AO victims took place on December 26 in Hanoi.