VIETNAM TODAY

Three Vietnamese cartoons have been chosen to participate in the Chuncheon International Cartoons Festival in September in the Republic of Korea (RoK), reported the Sai Gon Giai Phong newspaper.

Vietnamese student Nguyen Thi Hien Gia has surpassed hundreds of thousands of competitors around the world to win the bronze medal for Microsoft PowerPoint® 2010 category under the MOSWC 2015 contest in the US.

US Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Cuba Friday to raise the American flag over the newly reopened US embassy, a symbolic capstone on Washington's historic rapprochement with Havana.

The greenback rates soared in the flea market and touched a new ceiling price in commercial banks as China devalued its currency for the third time in three days.

Air pollution is killing about 4,000 people in China a day, accounting for 1 in 6 premature deaths in the world's most populous country, a new study finds.

The PetroVietnam Exploration and Production Corporation under the Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group has announced that it has exploited the first commercial oil flow in Sahara desert in Algeria.

Nearly 9 million people in Viet Nam, or 10 per cent of the population, suffer from mental disorders, including 2.5 per cent with serious mental illnesses under social protection.

All authorities and sectors should make implementing social policies their main focus, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said yesterday.

Nhat Le Beach in the central province of Quang Binh has been selected as one of the top ten most attractive beaches in Vietnam by the Vietnam Records Organisation.

Police in Hanoi and Danang have seized one tonne of elephant tusks and rhino horn smuggled into Vietnam from Africa.

Twenty-two people have been arrested in Thailand for profiting from human trafficking, police said Thursday, part of an ongoing crackdown that sparked a regional migrant crisis earlier this year.

Transport Minister Dinh La Thang has backed a plan to build a new terminal for Danang International Airport as capacity nears its limit.

A four-day training course is taking place in Da Lat city in central Lam Dong province through August 14 to boost law enforcement activities of forest rangers while fighting wildlife crime.

Nearly 13,000 households in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho do not have access to national power grid, according to an official from the municipal Department of Industry and Trade.

Fidel Castro marked his 89th birthday by insisting the US owes Cuba "many millions of dollars" because of the half-century-old American trade embargo.

Vietnamese badminton ace Nguyen Tien Minh was knocked out of the TOTAL Badminton World Federation’s Championships after a third-round loss in Jakarta, Indonesia.

The central province of Quang Binh has announced a list of 34 tourism projects calling for investments from 2015-2020 with total capital of over 23 trillion VND (1.03 billion USD).

Ha Noi will honour 98 outstanding students who achieved top results in the city's university and academy graduation exams, a press conference has heard.

The Thailand Trade Exhibition – Thailand Week 2015 opened in Hanoi on August 13, co-organised by the Department of International Trade Promotion under the Thai Ministry of Commerce and the Embassy of the Kingdom of Thailand in Hanoi in