VIETNAM TODAY

There were 22,486 enterprises resuming operations during the first ten months of this year, an increase of 38.8 per cent against the same period last year, according to the latest report from the Agency for Business Registration under the

The Prime Minister has requested the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City to clarify information relating to food poisoning of 34 Japanese tourists returning from the locality on October 28.

More than 500 primary and secondary school students in Hanoi, HCM City and central Da Nang city will take part in the annual Robothon Contest starting on October 30.

Well-known Norwegian record producer and DJ Alan Walker will arrive in Ho Chi Minh City to perform at the Revolution Music Festival, which is scheduled to take place on December 8, according to a local newspaper, the An ninh

Vietnamese tourists will be exempt from providing specified documentary evidence of financial capacity, said Jung Chang Soo, CEO of the Korea Tourism Organization during his recent working visit to Vietnam.

The 40th Southeast Asian Shooting Association Championships will take place at Hanoi’s National Sports Training Centre from November 1-12 with the participation of nearly 300 shooters representing nine countries and territories across the region and the continent.

Young people are leaving the Mekong Delta, Vietnam's rice bowl, while the region's economic growth is declining.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked relevant agencies and ministries to keep the inflation rate under the 5 per cent set by the National Assembly (NA).

After two years of ruthless Islamic State rule, Ahmed finally decided to make a run for it, past some of the group's snipers in his village in northern Iraq.

Domestic religious followers have praised the Vietnamese legislative body’s recent discussion and plan to approve a bill on religions and beliefs at the second session of the 14th National Assembly.

Vietnam aims to attract 1 million tourists from Japan by 2019, officials said at a tourism cooperation forum held in Yokohama city on October 28.

Ta Thi Ngoc Thanh, former Director of SOS Children’s Village is known for her devotion to social work and her great love for disadvantaged children.

The Vietnam Cinema Association has dusted off an old plan to transform the local movie industry into a leading one in Southeast Asia by 2020, but experts say it’s just a lot of the same old tripe.

Commercial trade with ASEAN is a microcosm of the challenges facing the Vietnamese domestic sector globally.

A family in Ho Chi Minh City is in need of help to treat their one-year-old son who is suffering from leukaemia.

Composer Đặng Tuệ Nguyên will debut a new musical work combining Western piano and Vietnamese chèo (traditional opera) on October 29 at Công Nhân Theatre.

Vietnam has jumped five places to 96th position in terms of electricity access, one of the criteria the World Bank uses to rank 189 economies on the ease of doing business.

The Vietnam Steel Association (VSA) has proposed the government impose temporary safeguard duties on imported pre-painted galvanized steel to protect local producers and workers.

Bach Mai Hospital, the largest medical facility in the northern region, started construction of a modern health examination and treatment centre with rooftop helipad.