VIETNAM TODAY

The skills and education recent Vietnamese college graduates acquired during their time on campus may not be serving them well when it comes to proving their worth to potential employers.

The Hanoi People’s Committee recently appealed for support from local State agencies and organisations in fighting HIV/AIDS and assisting children affected directly or indirectly by HIV, a pressing issue currently facing the capital city.

The HCM City People's Committee has given approval to US-based company Jabil to expand its operation in the city's High-tech Park with an infusion of 500 million USD.

Mother and child should have sustained skin-to-skin contact shortly after birth, the World Health Organisation (WHO) emphasised yesterday as it launched its "First Embrace" campaign in Viet Nam.

Lao Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong on July 15 paid working visits to the central provinces of Quang Tri and Quang Binh.

E5 grade bio-fuel has been largely ignored by users though it has been available in seven cities and provinces since December 2014 and the Government is set to sell it nation-wide starting this December.

Major Truong Anh Tuan and Captain Nguyen Duc Thang will leave Vietnam on July 18 for South Sudan to join the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Malaysia on July 14 said it had confirmed the identification of three Vietnamese crewmen who died after inhaling poisonous gas aboard ship on July 12.

Popular United Kingdom-based Vietnamese model and entrepreneur Jessica Minh Anh will present her historic 10th show inside the award-winning solar power plant Gemasolar in Seville, Spain, this Friday.

One of the two runways at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCM City will close for several days to repair damage when hit by lightning recently.

Thousands of tonnes of rice are piling up at border checkpoints between Vietnam and China in Lao Cai Province as traders on both sides try to get around export regulations to avoid tax and quota restrictions.

State President Truong Tan Sang has asked young Vietnamese expatriates to vigorously pursue their studies, accumulate knowledge on advanced science and technology and act as bridge between Vietnam with their host country.

HCM City is keen to develop inland waterway tourism into one of its key attractions by 2020.

Tsutomu Takebe, special advisor to the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Alliance, pledged continued efforts to foster bilateral ties, especially in constructing the Viet Nhat university.

The Bach Mai, Viet Duc, Cancer and Paediatrics hospitals have signed a joint commitment to improve health workers' attitude towards patients at a conference today in Hanoi.

More than 160 young overseas Vietnamese people from 21 countries are attending a summer camp till the end of this month, the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs (COVA) has said.

After 18 days of intense and often fractious negotiation, world powers and Iran struck a landmark deal Tuesday to curb Iran's nuclear program in exchange for billions of dollars in relief from international sanctions — an agreement designed to

The UK is the only nation within the Eurozone has experienced a strong growth in shrimp imports from Vietnam, during the first five months of the year.

Hundreds of Vietnamese in Germany held a demonstration to protest China's illegal construction in Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly) Archipelago in the East Sea.