VIETNAM TODAY

The 28th & 29th Summits of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) kicked off in Vientiane, Laos, on September 6, focusing on efforts in building the ASEAN Community.

Two people were killed and nine others were injured in a tragic bus accident which occurred earlier today on the Pháp Vân-Cầu Giẽ highway.

Even though the buffalo fighting festival in Hanoi was banned over concerns of cruelty to animals, the buffalo fights were still held over the National Day holiday this year.

Canadian Foreign Minister Stephane Dion has suggested Canada, Vietnam and other signatories to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change join hands to achieve the target of limiting the planet’s warming to below 2 degrees Celsius reached at the 21st

The central city of Da Nang will hold the fifth Asian Beach Games (ABG5) from September 24 to October 5.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc will pay an official visit to China and attend the 13th China-ASEAN Expo and the 13th China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit in Nanning from September 10-15.

Vietnam has been voted one of the twenty best countries in the world to visit, according to a survey released recently by US travel magazine Condé Nast Traveler.

Hanoi’s Department of Transport has unveiled a detailed plan for the city transportation with upgraded bridges and expressways to attempt to resolve the city’s congestion problem by 2030.

President Barack Obama called off a planned meeting Tuesday with new Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, seeking distance from a U.S. ally's leader during a diplomatic tour that's put Obama in close quarters with a cast of contentious world figures.

Dozens of FDI projects being abandoned in Dong Nai Province, causing concern about Vietnam's FDI project management capacity.

French President Francois Hollande arrived in Vietnam early September 6 morning, starting his three-day State visit to Vietnam at the invitation of President Tran Dai Quang.

The Transport Department in HCM City has said it is considering to build a five-kilometre flyover which would run from Truong Son Road to Tan Son Nhat International Airport.

The prices of RON 92 petrol and bio-fuel E5 were raised 702 VND (0.31 USD) and 611 VND 0.27 USD) per liter from 3:00 pm on September 5.

The Prime Minister has approved the National Target Programme on Sustainable Poverty Reduction in 2016-2020, which aims to cut the rate of poverty among households nationwide by 1- 1.5 percent each year based on the multi-dimensional poverty criteria.

Scientists have unearthed various objects at an excavation site at Hồ Citadel in central Thanh Hóa Province, helping them to learn more about the scale and characteristics of the citadel.

Work on the new site for the Alexandre Yersin French school was kicked off this morning, September 5, prior to the visit of French President Français Hollande to Vietnam.

North Korea test-fired three ballistic missiles into the sea Monday, South Korea said, in a new show of force as world leaders meet at the G20 summit in China.

Hanoi’s authorities claim there was a surge in the number of visitors and increased revenues during the national holiday period.

Even though increased budgets have been allocated to environmental protection, Vietnam’s environmental protection has remained at just 1% of total annual expenditure.