VIETNAM TODAY

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has urged ministries, branches and localities to direct drastically the implementation of the equitisation of 289 State-owned enterprises (SOE) in accordance with the plan.

Though her mother and teachers constantly tell her to wear a helmet when riding her electric bike to school, Nguyen Thi Thu Hang of HCM City's Tan Binh District does not because she does not "like it."

A campaign calling to end the use of rhino horn to cure cancer brought together a Vietnamese-American Hollywood actress, a Vietnamese-Australian singer-songwriter, a representative from the Customs Department and the chairman of Vietnam's Cancer Society.

Former secretary of state and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton ended months of speculation with Sunday's announcement of her 2016 presidential bid, the accomplished politician’s second attempt to become the country's first female president.

Morocco is rapidly becoming an important player in the North African market, with its proximity making it attractive to Vietnamese businesses, which can use it as a hub for their African sales and operations.

For US photographer Catherine Karnow, every corner, person or moment in Vietnam could be inspiration.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has agreed to a three-year extension of the second phase of a programme to build elevated houses for people in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta region affected by floods.

Employment demand for smartphone engineers surged and made up 14 percent of the orders placed by employers at Navigos Search in the first quarter of this year, the biggest proportion of total demand in the period.

More than 80 government, business, non-profit, education and other officials gathered at the Vietnam Embassy in Washington DC recently for a sustainable development conference regarding the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS).

The leaders of the United States and Cuba held their first formal meeting in more than half a century on Saturday, clearing the way for a normalization of relations that had long seemed unthinkable.

A textbook reform plan has been approved by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, which will see VND778.8bn spent by the Education Ministry for new study materials available in 2018, involving input from private organisations.

Vietnam has signed seven free trade agreements with multi-lateral, regional and bilateral partners, with hundreds of tariffs on farm produce to be removed by 2018.

The Red Cross delivered its second plane-load of aid to Yemen's capital in as many days Saturday, urgently needed to treat hundreds wounded in fighting between pro-government forces and Iran-backed rebels.

The outcomes of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong’s official China visit from April 7-10 generated an important prerequisite for healthy and sustainable bilateral relations for each country’s benefits as well as regional and global peace, stability, cooperation, and

Buddhist bikku (monk) Thich The Tuong has been working hard to turn his one hectare farm into a bamboo conservatory on the Son Tra Mountain, which protects over 110 bamboo species.

Police of Ho Chi Minh City recently detained four Peruvian nationals suspected of stealing about VND1.4 billion (over US$66,660) from an automate teller machine (ATM) in the central province of Khanh Hoa.

Air Busan from the Republic of Korea has launched a new direct flight route connecting the southern port city of Busan and central Da Nang City, central Vietnam.

US President Barack Obama and Cuba's Raul Castro shook hands on Friday at the Summit of the Americas, a new milestone in efforts to shed decades of animosity between the two countries.

Though the Laws on Competition and Consumer Rights Protection took effect many years ago, a majority of Vietnamese businesses and consumers do not understand their legal rights, a seminar heard yesterday in HCM City.