VIETNAM TODAY

The parties of China and Vietnam should enhance high-level delegation exchanges, reinforce political trust, promote strategic connectivity and effectively control disputes for healthy and stable ties between the two parties and countries, a senior party official of China has said.

National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan arrived in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), on December 11 (local time) to attend the 11th Global Summit of Women Speakers of Parliament.

A TV programme broadcasted last week revealed that hundreds of people, including small children in Lo Son Commune, Hoa Binh Province, have to walk across an almost entirely destroyed bridge.

The State Bank of Vietnam has just confirmed the arrest of former CEO of the DongA Joint Stock Commercial Bank,Tran Phuong Binh, for violating laws on financial and banking activities.

A H’Mong ethnic minority man from the northern mountainous province of Son La who lost his eyesight after being attacked by a bear is calling for help from the public to pay hospital fees.

A female Vietnamese worker in Angola was killed and another seriously injured after robbers set them on fire at a hostel they were staying in.

Six workers are dead in China after being hit by an express cargo train on the railway line connecting Beijing and the southern city of Guangzhou.

A solution to deal with troubled commercial banks has been decided upon, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc revealed. The regional development bank is planning to assist the Vietnamese government to solve the problem.

Over 600 participants took part in a fun run at Ciputra urban area, North Tu Liem District, Hanoi, aimed at supporting and acting to prevent the extinction of wild animals while urging the community not to use herbal medicinal

Vietnam graduates scored lowest on the job happiness spectrum in the ASEAN region, according to a latest survey conducted by JobStreet.com.

A Vietnamese 'Ao da'i space will open on December 11 in Hanoi in order to provide visitors with a venue to promote the traditional Vietnamese long dress.

Construction on Mau Son Snow Mountain entertainment and ecotourism area has begun in Loc Binh District in the northern mountainous province of Lang Son.

The large water park inside Tuoi Tre (Youth) Park, Hai Ba Trung District, has been abandoned for years despite supposedly being a key Hanoi leisure option.

Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha has requested schools to halt the organising of an online game contest following public worry about its violence.

The death toll from the bombing outside a soccer stadium in Istanbul has risen to 38 people, including 30 police officers, Turkey's interior minister said on Sunday, adding that Kurdish militants were believed to be responsible.

Vietnamese and Indian carriers, Vietjet Air and Air India, inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the provision of aviation services for the two countries, in New Delhi on December 10.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has said Vietnam must have a dynamic, smart and sustainable agriculture sector, considering developing this as one of the most difficult tasks before it, but one essential to modernising the national economy.

Mother Goddess Worship or Dao Mau, which began in the 16th century in Vietnam, is the worship of the incarnation of nature goddesses.

Ho Chi Minh City has a great potential for water-way tourism with about 1,000 km of rivers and canals connecting it with neighboring provinces, Thailand, and Cambodia. The city intends to market water-way services as a tourism product.