VIETNAM TODAY

French President François Hollande met the Ho Chi Minh City party secretary and chairman during his visit to Vietnam on September 7.

A Vietnamese farmer, Pham Thi Huan, will be presented Model Farmer Awards by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization for her outstanding achievements in agricultural production.

Vietnam and France have issued a joint statement on the occasion of the state visit by French President Francois Hollande to Vietnam from September 5-7 at the invitation of President Tran Dai Quang.

Vietnam’s futsal team have arrived in Cali, Colombia, commencing their campaign to make it into the last 16 of the 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup, where they are one of 23 teams qualifying from six separate continental competitions.

Vietnam will work with international organisations to develop a population policy agenda at the highest level as the country looks towards becoming an aged nation, said Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam yesterday.

A bomb exploded on a roadside in Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia, on Tuesday night, injured three persons, according to police.

The Japanese Government will provide the Vietnamese Government with an 11 billion JPY loan in the 2016 fiscal year to help improve socio-economic infrastructure and the competitiveness of the national economy.

As many as 1,000 pupils in the central coastal province of Ha Tinh have not returned to school as their parents have lost their jobs following the mass fish deaths caused by Formosa’s pollution incident.

Some of the world's leading conservation groups are violating the rights of indigenous people by backing projects that oust them from their ancestral homes in the name of environmental preservation, a top UN expert said this week.

The government inspectorate has uncovered various wrongdoings at the Vietnam National Petroleum Group (Petrolimex) and a member company.

Dantri/DTiNews readers have donated nearly VND272 million (USD12,952) to a 10-year old boy in Hanoi's Soc Son who has been living with blood disorders since he was born.

The pressure on the budget deficit will likely increase in the remaining months of this year due to the anticipated rapid rise of investments in capital construction.

Declaring a "moral obligation" to heal the wounds of a secret war, President Barack Obama on Tuesday pledged help to clear away the 80 million unexploded bombs the U.S. dropped on Laos a generation ago — more than 10

Some 28 million children around the globe have been driven from their homes by violent conflict, with nearly as many abandoning their homes in search of a better life, according to a UNICEF report released Tuesday.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc had a cordial meeting with Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith of Laos in Vientiane on September 6 prior to the opening session of the 28th and 29th ASEAN Summits and related meetings.

Vietnam is in the 11th position among the best places for expats this year, according to the InterNations Expat Insider 2016 survey.

Malaysia-based cruise liner Dream Cruises is set to operate a new vessel capable of carrying 3,500 passengers to Vietnam from November, according to the HCM City-based travel firm Viet Excursions.

French President Francois Hollande talked to students at the Vietnam National University-Hanoi (VNU-Hanoi) on September 6 during his State visit to Vietnam from September 5-7.

China, Taiwan, Japan and the Koreas will experience more violent typhoons under climate change, said researchers Monday, presenting evidence for a recent rise in storm intensity caused by ocean warming.