VIETNAM TODAY

EU member states agreed Wednesday to extend damaging economic sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis by another six months to the end of January 2016, officials said.

Microsoft has officially launched its first Microsoft Store in Hanoi, which will provide customers with the best Microsoft products including the most popular Lumia Window Phone.

The math and literature questions raised at the high school entrance exam were viewed as being within students’ capacity to answer. Students said they could finish the tests before the deadline.

Photos of Vietnamese landscapes and people taken by foreign tourists were posted on the US online newspaper, Huffington Post.

Citizens from the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy will now be able enjoy visa exemptions for stays that last no lon

Vietnam suffered from a shortage of clean water, polluted air and untreated garbage and waste.

Skills mismatch and the relevance of skills to business needs are major concerns in Vietnam and across the region.

The EU called an emergency eurozone summit next week after Greek debt talks ended Thursday without a deal, sparking warnings of an "accident" that could push Athens out of the euro if there is no breakthrough by the end

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh is on a working visit to Beijing from June 17-19 to attend the eighth meeting of the Vietnam-China Steering Committee on Bilateral Cooperation.

The Party and State vow to create all possible conditions to help the Vietnamese revolutionary press to grow vigorously, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asserted.

Authorities in Nha Trang city in central Khanh Hoa Province are providing free water to residents to help them get through the prevailing drought.

More than 100 firefighters and 10 trucks in Hanoi City were mobilised to extinguish a huge blaze that broke out at a construction site early today mornin

Yet again, Vietnamese chess masters were successful in maintaining their 16-year domination of the Southeast Asian region, sweeping away 68 gold, 44 silver and 29 bronze medals at the 16th ASEAN+ Age-Group Chess Championships.

Vietnam recorded a trade deficit of more than 3 billion USD, despite an increase in exports, in the first five months of 2015, according to the most recent statistics released by the Vietnam Customs agency.

The capital city of Hanoi has ranked first among world’s top 10 cheapest cities for a mini-break by TripAdvisor- the world's largest travel site.

Vietnam ranks 10th in a list of countries with the most engineering graduates, with 100,390 engineers graduating every year.

European countries have spent 11.3 billion euros in the last 15 years on deporting illegal migrants and another 1.6 billion euros on border control around "Fortress Europe", journalists said in a study published Wednesday.

Black-as-coal and smelling of something rank, the Nhue river snakes its way through the middle of Van Hoang Commune, Phu Xuyen District in Ha Noi. The polluted river is likely more than just an eyesore.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has agreed to grant visa exemption to the people of five European countries, in an attempt to lure more tourists to the country.