VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnamese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are encouraged to promote brand building and e-commerce development to enhance competitiveness at a workshop on e-commerce yesterday in Cần Thơ City.

Việt Nam has identified over 1,080 species of marine fish, including many highly economically valuable creatures such as the skipjack tuna, Japanese horse mackerel, yellowtail scad, largehead hairtail (or beltfish), ariid catfish, among others.

Vietnam attracted over US$17.61 billion in new and additional pledges of foreign direct investment as of October 20, representing an 8.7% decline compared to the same period of 2015, according to the General Statistics Office.

600 Overseas Vietnamese from around the world will gather in a conference held in HCM City next month according to a city spokesperson.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye has ordered 10 of her senior secretaries to resign amid an investigation that she let an old friend and daughter of a religious cult leader to interfere in important state affairs.

No official was found lying in their asset declaration according to the Government Inspectorate at the meeting to review the anti-corruption fight of 2016.

Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) will install 21,000 base transceiver stations (BTS) to facilitate 4G services throughout 63 cities and provinces across the country by 2017.

Vietnam’s consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.83% in October from last month and posted a year-on-year increase of 4.9%, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Hanoi may postpone a controversial motorbike ban in its inner-city areas until 2030, instead of 2025 as planned earlier, said municipal Party Secretary Hoang Trung Hai.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Friday paid his respects to late Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej in Bangkok, Thailand.

The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) has had a working session with a delegation from Japan’s Mimasaka city in Hanoi as part of the programme to boost culture and sports activities towards the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.

Up to 34 passengers on a Vietnam Airlines flight from HCM City to Tokyo, Japan, on Friday morning had to be hospitalised.

The Women’s Association of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho and the Korea Centre for United Nations Human Rights Policy (KOCUN) jointly launched a project to support Vietnamese women married to the Republic of Korea (RoK) men on

The central city of Da Nang plans to relaunch a direct air route to Pakse, in Laos’ province of Champasak, in a bid to boost investment, cooperation, and tourism in the years to come.

The Hanoi Department of Construction has proposed banning a company from participating in the capital’s tree planting campaign due to incompetence.

Vietnam failed to create any surprise against title favourites Japan as they succumbed to a 0-3 defeat at the hands of the team from the “land of the rising sun” in the semifinals of the 2016 AFC Championship in

A senior official from Myanmar's Civil Aviation Department said "an unidentified aircraft" has crashed into the sea off the west coast on Friday and authorities were trying to locate it.

A Philippine town mayor who was publicly identified by President Rodrigo Duterte as a drug trafficking suspect was gunned down Friday with nine of his men at a police checkpoint, in one of the bloodiest operations since the crackdown

Foreign arrivals to Vietnam have reached over 8 million in the first ten months of 2016, up 25.4% year on year, according to figures released by the General Statistics Office (GSO).