VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnam's four largest hospitals have signed a joint commitment to improve services, including the attitude of their staff towards patients, but changes will take time to be brought into action.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung will pay an official visit to Thailand and attend the third Vietnam-Thailand joint cabinet meeting on July 23.

Vietnam and Cambodia will work closely to search and repatriate the remains of about 500 Vietnamese volunteer soldiers believed to be still in Cambodia’s Military Zone 3.

TheRichest, a leading entertainment and lifestyle website, has released a video that names the top 10 most beautiful places in the world, and includes Vietnam’s northern province of Lao Cai.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc held talks with Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli on July 16.

Vietnam has strictly abided by agreements with Cambodia on managing the shared border during the process of demarcation and border marker planting in the land border between the two countries, an official said.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung received Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli in Hanoi on July 16.

The wave of residents flocking to large cities seeking employment has put a heavy burden on the existing public education system, resulting in the shortage of rooms in public schools.

Experts on marriage gathered on July 15 in the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang to help enhance legal understanding of marriages involving foreigners.

The first outbreak of diphtheria in many decades in the mountainous Phuoc Loc commune of central Quang Nam province’s Phuoc Son district has claimed the lives of three locals so far this year.

After four year's development, social housing projects have still yet to attract the low-income buyers they were intended for, due to complicated legal procedures and unaffordable prices.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Vietnam Forum 2015 organising board announced at a July 16 press conference that the event is scheduled to take place on August 6.

The DEZEEN architecture and design magazine has praised a new residence named the Termitary House designed by Vietnamese Tropical Space architects.

The Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy in central Thua Thien-Hue province and the Republic of Korea’s Chonbuk National University held a ceremony to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their cooperation on July 15 in Hue city.

More than 50 child soldiers recruited by the Islamic State group in Syria have been killed since the beginning of this year, a monitoring group said Wednesday.

A Vietnam Airlines captain refused to allow three passengers on board after a bomb scare July 13 at Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport.

A bevy of workers are carefully sorting and grading an enormous pile of lychees at a packing house in northern Vietnam. The best of the bunch will go to China.

Vietnam Airlines was awarded the First-class Independence Order on July 15 to mark two decades of operating domestic and international flights.

Fire swept through a paint storage depot in Danang, exploding containers hampering attempts to bring it under control.