VIETNAM TODAY

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).

The Ministry of Finance said it would tighten spending next year as well as the financial planning for the next five years as state budget revenues have been lower than estimated.

The world's whaling watchdog moved Thursday to curtail Japan's annual whale hunt, conducted under scientific licence but blasted by critics as a commercial meat haul.

Politburo member and permanent member of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat Dinh The Huynh called on the UN to continue cooperating with Vietnam in maintaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and implementing the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development and

For over a decade the pace of tourism development in HCM City has been rather slow due to limited products in terms of places of interest and cultural and entertainment activities for tourists.

Admiral Harry B. Harris Jr, Commander of the US Pacific Command, has thanked the HCM City administration’s assistance in the search for the remains of US servicemen missing in action during the US war in Vietnam.

Forty-six per cent of Vietnamese consumers have purchased a product or service on their mobile device in the past six months, according the latest report from Nielsen entitled “Mobile Money Makes the World Go Around”.

A large number of level crossings illegally opened by local people along the north-south railway has been identified as one of the main causes for the high number of railway accidents in Vietnam, according to railway management companies.

India and Pakistan on Thursday announced they would each expel one of the other's diplomats amid growing tension between the nuclear-armed arch-foes over the disputed region of Kashmir.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has urged the Justice Ministries of Vietnam and Italy to further strengthen their mutual affiliation, especially in personnel training.

A series of projects with total capital of USD66bn for the 2017-2022 period have been submitted to the National Assembly for consideration.

Hà Nội University of Science and Technology will have the right to use tuition as well as funds from enterprises and the government without asking permission from the Ministry of Education and Training.