VIETNAM TODAY

Minister of Transport Dinh La Thang decided to set up an inspection team to look into expressway projects contracted to the Republic of Korea’s POSCO Engineering and Construction (E&C) on April 9.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong met Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Zhang Dejiang, in Beijing yesterday.

A conference was held in Rome, Italy on April 9 for Vietnamese and Italian universities to explore opportunities for training partnerships.

French television network TV5Monde said it had been hacked by individuals claiming to belong to the Islamic State (IS) group, who brought television broadcasts to a halt and hijacked its websites and social networks.

Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced several changes to his cabinet on April 8, designed to strengthen the country’s leadership before the upcoming general election.

Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) has officially launched a website on Vietnamese women living overseas (http://pnvnnuocngoai.vn) with the aim of providing them with useful information.

A shortage of clean water would affect residents in several parts of Hanoi district this summer, the Hanoi Water Supply Company said.

Vietnam’s budget carrier VietJet Air revealed air routes linking the Southeast Asian country with China on April 8, part of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong’s official visit to China.

The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) is to rally U23 football squad on May 5 to prepare for SEA Games 28 and the national football squad on May 17 for World Cup 2018.

US President Barack Obama and Cuba's Raul Castro will have a historic face-to-face encounter at the Summit of the Americas this week, breaking the ice after decades of glacial relations.

Several experts have expressed concerns about the emergence of a possible monopoly when Vietnam's airports are opened to private investment, and suggest measures to prevent the problem.

Many people in Hanoi and the central city of Hue are buying watermelons to help flood-hit farmers in Quang Nam Province.

Vu Bang is a proud father of two children - a second grader and a little boy attending kindergarten. He is also proud of his motorbike driving skills and how good his little daughter is at sitting on the bike.

Almost 30,000 people living near a Chinese chemical plant where a huge fire blazed for a total of nearly 50 hours were evacuated before the flames were finally extinguished on Thursday, media said

In the Global Talent Index Report: Outlook to 2015, Vietnam dropped one spot compared to 2011, ranking 53rd out of 60 countries.

Vietnam and China have agreed to continue intensifying their security cooperation in a result-oriented manner, turning relations in this field into one of pillars of their comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Wednesday lashed out at EU sanctions against Russia during talks with Kremlin strongman Vladimir Putin in Moscow that have unnerved Brussels.

Many localities in Vietnam are stepping up the fight against corruption, with whistle-blowers to be rewarded for coming forward with evidence of wrongdoing.

A senior Vietnamese official has urged the Transport Ministry to undertake a review of all projects in light of recent cases of corruption exposed by the media.