VIETNAM TODAY

A two-day photo exhibition will be held at the Vietnam National Museum to raise funds for the Muong King's House Heritage Restoration project.

As many as 34 contestants compete in the final round of the Miss Mekong Delta pageant 2015, scheduled to be held in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho from June 1-27.

US President Barack Obama signed into law on Tuesday landmark legislation passed by Congress just hours earlier putting an end to the government's bulk telephone data dragnet.

A shortage of playground means a hard summer holiday for city children.

Police are investigating a spate of stone attacks on buses in the central highlands province of Kon Tum as concern grows about the possibility of fatalities.

The northeastern province of Quang Ninh promised to transfer all bears in residential areas to the Tam Dao Bear Rescue Centre in the northern province of Vinh Phuc in June.

Vietnam has increased medical screening for passengers from nine countries in the Middle East and South Korea as Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) spreads into Asia.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung arrived at Figo Mannduro military airport in Lisbon on late June 2 (local time), beginning a two-day official visit to Portugal at the invitation of his Portuguese counterpart, Pedro Passos Coelho.

More than 200 divers combed a capsized Chinese ship in the Yangtze River looking for more than 400 missing people, many of them elderly Chinese tourists, as Premier Li Keqiang called for a transparent investigation.

Vietnam notified the WTO Secretariat on 1 June 2015 that it has initiated new dispute proceedings against Indonesia regarding its imposition of a safeguard measure on imports of flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has requested international borders to immediately carry out health screening declaration for passengers coming from the Republic of Korea (RoK) to Vietnam.

Air-conditioner repairers are working overtime as Hanoi is gripped by a heat wave.

An art week has been organised to raise funds for a school building for more than 100 Mong ethnic children in the mountainous Lao Lung Tung village, Ha Giang Province.

Japanese encephalitis (JE) has claimed the lives of five children so far this year in the Central Highland province of Dak Lak, the provincial General Hospital said.

Iraq’s military needs more intelligence and more help from international allies to defeat the Islamic State militants that have seized large parts of the country, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said at coalition talks in Paris.

The French School of Asian Studies and the Museum of Fine Arts of HCM City are jointly holding the exhibition Vietnam Through a Lens consisting of 100 photographs selected from the school's collection of old photos of Vietnam.

Rescuers cut three more people from the wreckage of a capsized Chinese cruise ship Tuesday as workers battled to find more than 400 people still missing after the boat sank in the storm-tossed Yangtze river.

Hanoi Police seized more than 7,000 pirated books on Sunday in a sudden raid on a workshop that illegally printed books in Hai Ba Trung District's Truong Dinh Street.

The natural forests in Huong Lam and Huong Xuan Communes of Huong Khe District in the central province of Ha Tinh have been seriously devastated, turned into bare hills just within one month.