VIETNAM TODAY

The US Agency for International Development said it has provided a grant for the Centre for the Promotion of Quality of Life to promote community-based approaches to HIV prevention, care and treatment.

Pokemon Go players have been urged not to play the game in areas near Party and State agencies or military sites to stop players affecting national security and social order.

NEW DELHI: A woman gave birth to a premature but healthy baby girl mid-flight while travelling from the United Arab Emirates to the Philippines, forcing the plane to carry out an emergency landing in India.

Fraser & Neave Ltd. (F&N), which is controlled by Thai beer tycoon Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi, has announced its ambition to acquire more shares in Vietnam Dairy Products Joint Stock Company (Vinamilk) as a part of its plans to expand its

Vietnam had over one million of unemployed in the second quarter, including 191,300 are graduates.

Luong Duy Hanh, head of Environmental Protection and Control Department, talked to DTiNews about the possible criminal offences at Hung Hiep Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Limited Company in relation to the mass fish deaths.

Vietnam needs to increase its funding for promoting tourism to realise its target of doubling the figures for international tourists as well as revenue by 2020, according to Forbes.

Thailand's junta on Thursday said more than a dozen suspects are being detained at military barracks on suspicion of launching a string of deadly bomb and arson attacks against tourist resort towns last week.

A poor family in Ha Tinh Province is struggling with a father with mental diseases while the mother has lost one leg. Their two little sons have to take care of them every day.

Two top officials of the northern Vietnamese province of Yen Bai were shot dead this morning at their offices.

Vietnamese nurse Nguyễn Thị Minh Hồng has been honoured by the International Neonatal Nursing Excellence Awards for her efforts to save newborns in a poor work environment over the past 30 years.

Vietnam is bracing itself ahead of Typhoon Dianmu will reach landfall on August 19 with wind speeds of 90 to 120 kilometres per hour.

Hanoi’s Transport Department will pilot a project on Dã Tượng Street allowing vehicle parking on one side of streets in the city, instead of both sides used now, according to the city People’s Committee Chairman Nguyễn Đức Chung.

A new flight path linking Hanoi and HCM City to meet the increasing air traffic demand on the route was launched today.

Nguyễn Tiến Thành a student from the Hanoi-Amsterdam High School was named as winner of the second annual student Writing Prize, a competition organised by American The Atlantic magazine and the College Board, a non-profit education organisation.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc received Chinese Ambassador Hong Xiaoyong at the government’s headquarters in Hanoi on August 17, noting that Vietnam has consistently given the greatest import to its relations with China.

Even after months of maintenance and repair, the nitrogenous fertiliser plant in Ninh Binh Province hasn't been able to find solution to its environmental problems or profitability.

Former Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court of Vietnam, Tran Van Do, said that an independent anti-corruption agency should be set up to deal with the increasingly complicated corruption.

The young Syrian activist was beaten, prevented from going to the toilet and saw her cellmates taken for rounds of whipping when she was held for more than a month in several government detention facilities.