VIETNAM TODAY

British cyclist Scott Kirkham finished his 1,600km cycling tour from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City on September 17 to raise awareness and funds to help Vietnamese children with congenital heart disease.

“The Grapes and Wine Festival – Ninh Thuan 2016” will take place from September 29 to October 1, according to the provincial People’s Committee of Ninh Thuan.

The Mother Tongue - based Bilingual Education project funded by UNICEF in Vietnam has proven effective, benefiting teachers, pupils, and education managers in the beneficiary localities.

The Hanoi administration has announced it will pave 936 streets with natural stone in 12 districts across the city.

World leaders meeting at the United Nations starting Monday will be trying to make progress on two intractable problems at the top of the global agenda — the biggest refugee crisis since World War II and the Syrian conflict

Buffalo farmers have put the abandoned Kim Chung-Di Trach urban area in Hanoi to good use after it has laid abandoned for years.

Vietjet Air will conduct an initial public offering and listing in Vietnam before listing overseas.

Starting the new school year, fourth-graders from the Hanoi Academy primary school had a chance to join in some very interesting and meaningful activities: making handbags from old newspapers and growing black-bean plants in pretty colourful pots made from

Vietnam has put cross-border education as the centrepiece of its bilateral economic cooperation talks with the UK since the election of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc earlier this year.

Vietnam’s national men’s football team have dropped three spots to 141st place in the latest FIFA rankings.

Nine local films have been selected to represent Vietnam at two prominent forthcoming international film festivals, according to an announcement by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MOCST).

Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has departed on an official visit to Russia.

Vietnam aims to develop a film making industry worth of US$50 million in revenue by 2020.

With beautiful landscapes, friendly people and special cultural identities, Sa Pa town in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai has been exerting every effort to become a key tourist attraction in the world.

Real estate associations have proposed amending the Law on Land and the Law on Trading Real Estate to create favourable conditions for investors in property investment.

The HCM City government has ordered the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to take measures to curb environmental pollution.

The Department of Preventive Medicine said they had been informed by Taiwanese agency that a 63-year-old man was diagnosed with Zika after attending his son's wedding in Vietnam.

Japan will increase its engagement in the East Sea as part of efforts to maintain a rules-based maritime order in the sea, stated Japanese Defence Minister Tomomi Inada.

In a regular school in HCM City’s Cần Giờ District, a 13-year-old boy diagnosed with intellectual disability has been making gradual progress.