VIETNAM TODAY

Twelve people were killed early Tuesday when an old building on the outskirts of Mumbai collapsed after days of heavy rain, an Indian official said.

Vinaconex Water Supply Company said it will open international bidding for the construction of a second water pipeline to Hanoi after the first broke for the 11th time.

Police in Hoang Mai District in Hanoi have confiscated free iced tea put out for impoverished people during the recent bout of hot weather, locals saying the act was shameful.

The 48th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting and related meetings open in Kuala Lumpur on August 4. This is one of ASEAN’s major annual events of the year.

A Ministry of Health’s plan to build additional satellite hospitals across the nation and upgrade existing ones lacks money and qualified personnel, Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has said.

The northeast province of Phu Tho is undertaking all necessary actions to preserve and revive Xoan singing, according to Ha Ke San, Vice-Chairman of the People's Committee of the northern province of Phu Tho.

A cut back in funding for HIV programmes has led to a spread of the disease in all cities and provinces in Vietnam.

The Vietnamese embassy and the Chile-Vietnam Culture Institute have held a meeting with Chilean journalists to mark the 70th anniversary of the establishment of Vietnam’s diplomatic sector (August 28).

Viet Nam is the country likely to achieve the biggest gross domestic product increase in percentage terms by joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership and ASEAN Economic Community in almost all simulation scenarios, according to a study by the Viet Nam

Monsoon rains have claimed hundreds of lives across Asia, authorities reported, as rescuers scrambled to reach remote areas of India, Pakistan and Myanmar after flash floods and landslides.

A Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Hoai Trung attended the ASEAN+3 Senior Officials Meeting (SOM ASEAN+3) and the East Asia Summit Senior Officials Meeting (SOM EAS) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on August 3.

Since their December arrival in Vietnam, U.S. Ambassador Ted Osius and his husband have become the most prominent gay couple in the Southeast Asian country.

As transnational companies discover and choose Vietnam as their choice to invest and conduct business operations, an educated workforce is even more essential to the nation’s economic viability.

Vietnamese-German youth Trong Hieu beat his female rival Bich Ngoc to win the Vietnam Idol contest last night, after receiving the overwhelming majority vote from the audience.

After tasting Vietnamese cuisines during his trip to Vietnam, a British man collected more than one million pounds to open a Vietnamese restaurant named "Hộp" (Box) in London.

National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines added the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner to its fleet on August 2 at Hanoi's Noi Bai Airport.

Malaysian aviation experts were to meet their French counterparts and judges Monday to coordinate the investigation into missing flight MH370, days after the discovery of a washed-up plane part offered fresh hopes of solving the mystery.

Hanoi authorities have approved a plan to increase clean water prices by an average of 20 percent from October 1 to fund new projects to meet shortages.

Heavy rain and flooding have hit several provinces in the northwest region, destroying hundreds of houses and killing at least 7 people.