VIETNAM TODAY

Start-up projects will be provided financial support of up to VND2 billion (US$90,000) sourced from Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC)’s budget for science and technology development activities.

Countries building and operating their nuclear power plants need to comply with the Convention of Nuclear Safety and relevant regulations of the International Atomic Energy Agency, an official said.

Vietnam does not allow any countries to establish a military base in the country, Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson Le Hai Binh has stated.

Thailand's Royal Palace says King Bhumibol, the world's longest-reigning monarch, has died at age 88.

Bob Dylan, regarded as the voice of a generation for his influential songs from the 1960s onwards, has won the Nobel Prize for Literature in a surprise decision that made him the only singer-songwriter to win the award.

The Hanoi Transport Association has just proposed to turn the island in the middle of the Red River into parking areas to ease congestion.

Twenty Vietnamese fishermen have been detained by the Malaysian Navy for illegally trespassing in disputed territorial waters 26 nautical miles southeast of Tanjung Sedili, per multiple news sources.

SAN FRANCISCO: Google and Facebook on Wednesday (Oct 12) announced plans to work with a China Soft Power Holdings subsidiary to connect Los Angeles and Hong Kong with a high-capacity internet cable.

Beachside and resort properties in Vietnam have huge potential and investors are targeting foreigners and overseas Vietnamese as their biggest customers.

The second Asia–Europe Music Festival and the 34th Festival and Conference of the Asia–Pacific Composers’ League officially kicked off at the Hanoi Opera House on October 12.

The bodies of three South Koreans with gunshot wounds to the head have been found in the Philippines, a South Korean foreign ministry official said on Thursday, the latest in a string of killings of Koreans in the southeast

Ha Long Bay and pho in Hanoi have been named among 50 can’t-miss attractions, foods and experiences in Asia by US news website Business Insider.

Many wealthy people have exploited loopholes in laws to scramble for low-priced houses which are built to serve low-income earners.

Two workers were killed and four others injured when scaffolding collapsed at an office and apartment building project in Hanoi's Hoang Mai District this morning, October 13.

Vietnam is wasting trillions of VND paying 700,000 civil servants who are barely working, according to the National Assembly Committee on Social Affairs.

A proposal that the retirement age be raised in the amended Labor Law will be submitted to the National Assembly (NA) in 2017, according to Deputy Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs Pham Minh Huan.

The health of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej is "still unstable", the palace said late Wednesday, with the 88-year-old on a ventilator and battling a new infection as crowds gathered to pray outside his Bangkok hospital.

The Hanoi Department of Taxation has just made public the names of seven real estate companies which are responsible for tax arrears of VND55bn, equal to 36% to total debts owed by the companies in the city.

A South Korean organisation has just sent many objects related to the participation of South Korean soldiers in the Vietnam war to Danang Museum as an apology to Vietnamese people.