VIETNAM TODAY

Art troupes in HCM City are asking the HCM City authority to invest in upgrading and building theatres to meet audiences' demand.

Thirty-three workers of a South Korean company in Ho Chi Minh City were hospitalised yesterday, after they showed symptoms of gas poisoning during lunchtime.

Vietnam takes the lead among the world's shrimp supplier community for the highest number of businesses that have been granted four-star Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification.

Vietnam have the most successful day at the ongoing 28th Southeast Asian Games in Singapore, racking up 15 gold medals, seven silvers and six bronzes to move up to second place in the medal tally.

UN peacekeepers engaged in “transactional sex” with more than 225 Haitian women, as well as women in other countries, who said they did so in order to obtain things like food and medication, according to a new report.

The Vietnam Fisheries Association has denounced Chinese ships for obstructing the rescue of Vietnamese fishermen and attacking Vietnam's fishing vessels.

Russia’s Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation has announced that the country’s universities are to enroll 80 Vietnamese students this year as part of the Vietnam-Russia cooperation plan on human resource training for the nuclear industry.

Specialist medical care is in short supply in the Mekong Delta region, with life-threatening but unpopular fields, such as tuberculosis and leprosy, the hardest hit.

Eighteen months after being a severe drought, the central coastal province of Ninh Thuan yesterday declared a state of emergency, for the first time in its history.

In 2014 Vietnam tourism industry welcomed 7.87 million visitors, up by 4% over the previous year. But its growth was still 10.6% lower than that of 2013 due to the situation in the East Sea. Here are a few

The Vietnam Union of Friendship Associations and the Vietnam-UK Friendship Association in Ho Chi Minh City (VUFA) jointly held a ceremony on June 10 in the southern city to mark the 89th birthday of UK Queen Elizabeth II.

Many parents are sending their children to military summer camps in the hope they will learn life skills and discipline in a safe environment.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung held a reception for UN Under-Secretary-General Herve Ladsous in Hanoi on June 10, affirming that Vietnam is ready to send more officers to UN peacekeeping missions around the world.

Vietnam plans to reduce visa fees for foreigners entering the country, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Huynh Vinh Ai said.

HCM City's Education Department has ordered the city's primary schools to create favourable conditions for first grade enrolments.

About 8,000 travellers from MERS-hit South Korea have visited Vietnam since June 3, Hanoi's Vice-Mayor Nguyen Van Suu was told at Noi Bai international airport on June 9.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye postponed a US visit on Wednesday amid an outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), as two more people died and 13 new cases were reported, lifting the total number of patients to 108.

Reports released recently by Vietnamese and international institutions all show that Chinese have conducted large-scale cyberattacks targeting Vietnam and countries in the East Sea.

Hanoi is paying heed to modernising the administrative system, building technical infrastructure and applying information technology in State-run management agencies to create a basic foundation for the establishment of an e-government system and smart city in the future.