VIETNAM TODAY

Hundreds of workers have lost months of wages and insurance protection after their employers disappeared, leaving them without pay or jobs, with authorities struggling to curb what is perceived to be a growing problem.

A traffic safety week, with the theme "Children and Traffic Safety," was launched yesterday in Hanoi.

The number of international visitors arriving in Viet Nam during the first four months of this year dropped by 12.2 per cent from the same period last year to 2.69 million.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung arrived in Kuala Lumpur yesterday to attend the 26th ASEAN Summit, at the invitation of his Malaysian counterpart, Najib Tun Abdul Razak.

Hundreds of thousands of Nepalis prepared to spend another night in the open Monday as the death toll from Saturday’s devastating earthquake passed 4,000.

The Vietnamese Embassy to India has contacted six out of a total 20 Vietnamese nationals who were travelling in Nepal at time of the deadly earthquake on April 25, Minister Counsellor of the embassy Tran Quang Tuyen said.

Many photos of Vietnam’s Reunification Day (April 30, 1975) were taken by foreign reporters, among them the national historic moments when the first tanks crashed through the gates of Saigon’s Independent Palace on the day.

Under current laws, female workers can enjoy six-month maternity leave, but state-owned nursery schools only accept children older than 12 months.

Television service will go digital at all provinces and cities nationwide by 2020, according to the Authority of Radio Frequency Management (ARFM).

Almost one million children urgently need help after an earthquake claimed more than 3,200 lives in Nepal, the UN children's agency said, as relief workers raced to help the most vulnerable.

Vietnam exports from agriculture, forestry and fishery in April hit US$2.61 billion, bringing the sector’s total export value for the first four months to US$9.13 billion.

The great victory of the resistance war against the US aggressors constitutes “the triumph of Vietnam’s military arts and guidelines under the Party’s sound and creative leadership”, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong has asserted.

The 26th ASEAN Summit kicked off in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on April 27 under the theme “ Our People, Our Community, Our Vision.”

Some rice traders are mixing low quality rice into export shipments of fragrant rice, threatening the integrity of Vietnam's rice export industry.

Vietnam’s Hai Van (Sea Cloud) Pass was listed ninth in a list of the top 10 most scenic drives in the world by UK newspaper The Guardian.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung extended condolences yesterday to Nepalese Prime Minister Sushil Koirala due to the mounting death toll caused by a devastating earthquake.

Many local enterprises do not know much about the TPP and the AEC free trade agreements (FTAs) that are expected to be signed this year.

The death toll from Nepal's earthquake has risen to 3,300, two days after the devastating earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale struck the Himalayan nation, even as the rescue efforts intensified in search of survivors.

The Ministry of Education and Training’s (MOET) decision on banning entrance exams to select sixth graders translates into a declaration of death for schools for the gifted at the secondary level.