VIETNAM TODAY

The numbers of delayed and cancelled flights of domestic carriers were 36,844 and 1,605, accounting for 16.1 percent and 0.7 percent of the total flights, up 0.6 point and 0.2 point, respectively from the same period last year, according

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked the Ministry of Public Security to investigate who spread false information about the revaluation of the Vietnam dong, which has affected macro economic activities.

There were no survivors after a plane carrying 47 people crashed into a mountain in northern Pakistan on Wednesday, the airline's chairman said, as recovery operations continued late into the night at the remote crash site.

Mistakes by the defensive line forced Vietnam to leave the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF)’s Suzuki Cup 2016 after a 2-2 draw with Indonesia in the semi-finals’ second leg at home on December 7.

Vietnamese police are cooperating with their Cambodian counterparts to investigate a Vietnamese man accused of brutally beating a small child in Cambodia.

Students from Tran Cao Van and Le Quy Don schools in the central city of Da Nang won top prizes in two categories -- apprentices and veterans -- at the 2016 International Robothon Contest for primary and secondary students

Eleven Vietnamese school students have won top prizes at the Australian Mathematics Competition and the Australia Intermediate Mathematics Olympiad held in Vietnam for the first time.

Vietnam is going through a construction boom, with apartment and office buildings mushrooming, and energy efficiency is imperative, Nguyễn Công Thịnh, head of the Ministry of Construction’s science, technology and environment department, told a seminar in HCM City.

An official from the Government Inspectorate is being heavily criticised after being recorded giving a speech on how to avoid reporters during inspections.

Defence Minister General Ngo Xuan Lich, who is on a visit to India from December 4-7, has met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi who said that India wishes to maintain and boost friendship and cooperation with Vietnam.

Vietnamese top swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh Vien on December 7 was ousted from the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m), which is taking place in Ontario, Canada.

The northwestern province of Dien Bien is gearing up for the Ban (Bauhinia variegate) Flower Festival, which is scheduled to take place from March 11-14, 2017.

The Vietnamese Government is taking drastic measures in restructuring agricultural production to adapt to climate change, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong said.

Only one per cent of total enterprises in Vietnam has invested in agriculture, and 55 per cent of these are small scale, capitalised at under VND5 billion, said Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong.

Vietnam ranks 8th out of 72 countries in terms of its scientific performance, according to a report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.

A strong undersea earthquake rocked Indonesia's Aceh province early on Wednesday, killing at least 54 people and sparking a frantic rescue effort in the rubble of dozens of collapsed and damaged buildings.

A BIDV bank branch in Hue City was robbed by an armed man at about 5pm on December 6.

A strong undersea earthquake rocked Indonesia's province of Aceh early Wednesday, causing several deaths and buildings to collapse in a district near the epicenter.