VIETNAM TODAY

Bus service operators in HCM City are struggling to retain passengers although the service has continued receiving a subsidy to keep fares affordable.

The ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) has announced that Vietnam will host one of the two ASEAN futsal championships in 2017.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said Vietnam wants German investors to invest more in the country, particularly in the sectors of Germany’s strength, such as hi-tech manufacturing, renewable energy, infrastructure, and logistics.

A series of new policies on land levy, specific allowances for a number of judicial and inspection titles in the Army, assessment of primary pupils shall come into force in November, 2016.

German FM Frank-Walter Steinmeier spoke highly of Vietnam’s rising role and position in the region while affirming that German Government expects stronger cooperation with the Southeast Asian country in various fields.

Fifteen miners are confirmed dead and 18 missing after a coal mine explosion in southwest China Monday, state media reported, the latest mining disaster in the country.

Many Vietnamese and international designers will attend Vietnam International Fashion Week (VIFW) Fall/Winter 2016 at the National Convention Centre in Hanoi on November 1-6.

A land fund shortage has been blamed for overcrowding in Hanoi public primary schools, forcing students to attend school on weekends in several areas.

Telling reporters Monday that she "deserves death," the woman at the center of a scandal roiling South Korea met prosecutors examining whether she used her close ties to President Park Geun-hye to pull government strings from the shadows and

Fishermen in Ha Tinh Province have started receiving the compensation for the mass fish deaths in the central region caused by Taiwanese Hung Nghiep Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation.

Torrential rain on October 30-31 has submerged many villages in the central province of Quang Binh.

New-generation carrier Vietjet Air on October 30 launched two new air routes between Hanoi and Taipei city of Chinese Taiwan and between Hanoi and Hue city of the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.

The relocation of many hospitals and universities out of Hanoi city centre as part of efforts to ease traffic congestion has remained slow.

A family in Nghe An Province is calling for help to treat the ill father and two daughters who are injured following traffic accidents.

Authorities have said that the explosion at a processing plant in Thai Binh Province which killed four people and injured 11 others was caused by an empty boiler.

Health authorities have just announced the first microcephaly case in the country that is linked to the mosquito-borne Zika virus.

Philippine President Duterte will lead the Nov. 2 ceremonial send-off for 17 Vietnamese fishermen caught poaching off Sta. Catalina town in Ilocos Sur province, after a prosecutor dismissed the charges against them.

Almost one in seven children worldwide live in areas with high levels of outdoor air pollution, mostly in South Asia, and their growing bodies are most vulnerable to damage, the U.N. children's agency UNICEF said on Monday.