VIETNAM TODAY

The Central Advisory Council on Amnesty has agreed on the list of 4,000 prisoners who will be granted amnesty.

Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan and a high-level Party and State delegation left Hanoi for Cuba to attend the State funeral for Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.

HCM City People’s Committee and Vietnam Fatherland Front honoured 113 individuals and 25 groups, clubs as well as associations in the city for their noble contributions to life in the city.

The visit to Laos from November 24-26 by Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong recorded remarkable outcomes, especially consensuses reached by the two nations’ leader on cooperative orientations, policies and measures to promote collaboration between the two Parties and

Nightclubs closed, baseball games were suspended and booze was banned Sunday as Cuba prepared to send off revolutionary leader Fidel Castro with days of tributes and a cross-country funeral procession.

A workshop was held in Tokyo from November 23-26 to enroll local students for Vietnam – Japan University in 2017.

Vietnam will take on Indonesia in one of the two semifinals at the AFF Cup after three straight wins in the group stage put them in the first position of Group B.

A nine-months-pregnant woman has been shot dead in southern Thailand by a gunman suspected of being a Muslim insurgent, police said Sunday.

Vietnam is ready to intensify economic cooperation with Francophone countries and share experience in socioeconomic development with them—especially African nations, President Tran Dai Quang has said.

Vietnamese government leaders have sent a message of condolences to the Cuban Party, State Council, Government, National Assembly and people over the passing away of revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.

Vietnam should have a Plan B for foreign trade and not be overly concerned that the TPP may not come into being, analysts have advised.

A poor man in the northern province of Phu Tho is facing the risk of death from heart disease as the problem has become critical but his family can’t afford to cover the treatment fees.

With daytime temperatures almost always above 30 degrees, and lows never below 20, the site of ice in the middle of Ho Chi Minh City is an understandable draw.

Children of poor families living in the vicinity of the Cái Răng Floating Market in Cần Thơ City are suddenly eager to go to Sunday school.

For 10 years, the Club of Retired Teachers in Sa Đéc City in the Mekong province of Đồng Tháp has looked after their own. Determined to prevent fellow teachers from falling into poverty, in 2007 the club members began

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has reassured the market that foreign currency exchange remains under control and that solutions will be applied if needed.

US President-elect Donald Trump said on November 26 that his administration would "do all it can" once he takes office on Jan. 20 to help increase freedom and prosperity for Cuban people after the death of Fidel Castro.

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has said there is a need for all ministries and relevant agencies to co-ordinate and connect with specific policies to promote electronic payments.

The Ministry of Home Affairs and the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) in Vietnam held a conference on November 24 in Ho Chi Minh City to review a project to enhance Vietnam’s capacity in implementing youth strategy from 2011 to 2020.