VIETNAM TODAY

A three-year-old boy in Nghe An Province is suffering from podoconiosis, an inflammatory disease that cause limbs to swell to an unusual size.

Around 10,000 people will participate in a requiem to commemorate the victims of traffic accidents next month in the northern province of Quang Ninh.

Vietnam was listed in the top three most popular expansion destinations in South Asia, following Singapore and Japan, in United Overseas Bank’s Asian Enterprises Report 2016.

Senior officials from Japan, the United States and South Korea agreed Thursday to step up pressure on North Korea as they stick to their goal of persuading the communist state to abandon its nuclear weapons.

Masks and costumes have been put on display at various shops in the Old Quarter as young people prepare for Halloween parties.

Vietnam and Myanmar have issued a Joint Statement on the occasion of the State visit of President U Htin Kyaw to Vietnam from October 26-28.

Thousands of fish have been found dead in Hanoi’s Linh Dam Lake since October 26.

The northern region is expected to experience the coldest snap so far this year.

HCM City Police has seized one tonne of ivory smuggled from Africa at Cat Lai Port after discovering over two tonnes of smuggled ivory earlier this month.

The Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism and the People’s Committee of Yen Bai province has just jointly held a conference to build a national dossier on Xoe dance of Thai ethnic people to submit for UNESCO recognition as

Uncovered manholes are the latest threat to pedestrians in Việt Nam, with the hazard claiming at least two deaths in southern Bình Dương Province and HCM City in the last ten days.

A blast that killed 14 people in a block of prefabricated houses in China on Monday was caused by "illegal production and storage of explosives", the state news agency Xinhua reported.

Phu Quoc Island, one of the popular tourist attractions of Vietnam, is facing the danger of becoming overloaded with waste as the island struggles to process half the daily amount produced.

The Vietnamese national flag carrier, Vietnam Airlines, and Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) will officially implement cooperative programmes from October 30.

Myanmar President Htin Kyaw has pledged to deepen bilateral ties with Vietnam and promote all-level visits and meetings during his meeting with Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong in Hanoi on October 26.

Vietnam hopes that the US will soon recognize it as a market economy, with the US opening up to more Vietnamese agricultural products and cutting trade barriers.

A roadmap for implementing a national one-door mechanism for arrival and departure procedures of aircraft will take effect on January 1 next year for Vietnam Airlines and on March 1 for other carriers.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc on October 26 chaired a press conference on the outcomes of the World Economic Forum on the Mekong region (WEF-Mekong), the 8th Summit of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Viet Nam (CLMV 8) and the 7th

A Muong ethnic group widow in Ninh Binh Province is calling for help for her two sons as she is in final stages of breast cancer.