VIETNAM TODAY

The warship HMAS Warramunga (FFH 152) made a port call at Vietnam's strategic naval base at Cam Ranh Bay, the Australian Navy said on November 2, beginning a six-day visit.

A speedboat carrying 93 Indonesian migrant workers from Malaysia sank off Batam Island on Wednesday, killing 17 of them, Indonesia's national disaster agency said.

A north-south train crashed into a motorbike last night in the capital’s Thanh Trì District, killing two people.

Young officers from the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) and the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) expressed their wish to reinforce cooperation between the two countries during their talks in Hanoi on November 1.

Indonesia and Vietnam are looking to join Thailand in blazing a trail for solar power in Southeast Asia, introducing targets to fire up green energy generation as a landmark global agreement to curb pollution is set to take effect.

Fourteen-year-old Tran Le Quang Tien from the Vietnam Academy of Music won first prize in the junior group of the 6th International Violin Competition held in Astana, Kazakhstan.

The second session of the National Assembly yesterday continued with debates on a five year financial plan, targets and orientation for the mobilisation and use of loans as well as public debt management during 2016-2020.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has accepted an initiative by the People’s Committee of the central province of Quang Tri on opening tourist routes to its Con Co Island District.

Local people in the central province of Quang Binh are facing an uncertain future after two consecutive floods swept away their entire possessions.

South Korea's presidential office on Wednesday named a new prime minister and finance minister, the highest-level shake-up yet since President Park Geun-hye's administration was rocked by a scandal involving a friend accused of meddling in state affairs.

Thirteen people have been killed in a fire at a karaoke bar in Hanoi's Tran Thai Tong Street on Tuesday afternoon, according to local authorities.

Ho Chi Minh City’s Customs Office said its officers and anti-trafficking police uncovered over 700 kg of African elephant tusks hidden in wood blocks transported via Cat Lat port on November 1.

A new fee schedule will apply for the granting of licenses to foreign financial institutions in Vietnam from January 1, 2017.

The Hitachi Zosen Corporation (Hitz) will cooperate with the Ho Chi Minh City Urban Environment Co. Ltd. (Citenco) to build a waste treatment facility at the Phuoc Hiep rubbish dump in Cu Chi district in Ho Chi Minh City

President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins and his spouse will pay a State-level visit to Vietnam from November 5-11.

Though major changes are on the horizon for the domestic auto industry, the Vietnamese government has so far failed to provide a roadmap for new emission standards, and carmakers are getting concerned.

Domestic and foreign researchers and managers in archaeology gathered in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai on October 31 to seek ways to promote the value of the archaeological studies of the Paleolithic Age.

An abandoned boy in the northern city of Haiphong who is calling for help to pay hospital fees for his serious injury treatment.

Seventeen people have tested positive for the Zika virus in HCM City as of yesterday, according to the city-based Pasteur Institute.