VIETNAM TODAY

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas threatened to turn to the International Criminal Court over Israel’s refusal to fully release hundreds of millions of dollars in tax monies owed to the ruling Palestinian Authority.

France’s Le Monde newspaper has published a book about President Ho Chi Minh, a figure that won national independence for Vietnam.

A Nguyen Dynasty rickshaw bought at auction in France for EUR55,800 will go on display at the Hue Relic Preservation Centre on April 28.

Maintenance work at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City will start on April 10 as scheduled, and end before June 30, despite concerns that maintenance work will affect holiday-season passengers.

The most important segment of the Mekong Delta highway system, the My Thuan – Can Tho highway, will kick off by the end of the year.

In 2012, Quang Binh started a 14 million USD project to supply solar power to remote villages previously relying on generators, kerosene or candles to produce light.

Greece has agreed to repay its debt to the International Monetary Fund by April 9, IMF chief Christine Lagarde said after a visit with Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis.

Pope Francis prayed for an end to the persecution of Christians in his Easter Sunday address, commemorating the students massacred by Islamist militants at Garissa University in Kenya.

The central city will hold the Danang International Marathon 2015 on August 30, the city's culture and society department official Hoang Son Tra has said.

The project on restoring and preserving documentary films kept at the National Documentary and Scientific Film Production Studio will be continued with the assistance from the Belgium’s Wallonie - Bruxelles Delegation.

An estimated 617,895 international arrivals was recorded in Vietnam in March, down 10.4% from February and 12.9% from the same period last year, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).

Vietnam collected VND226 trillion (US$10.7 billion) for the State budget in the first quarter of 2015, up 1.3 percent from a year ago, data from the Ministry of Finance indicated.

Around 24,000 coastal residents of the Philippines were being evacuated as a precaution from approaching Tropical Storm Maysak on Saturday, officials said, even as experts downgraded the threat from what was at one point a super typhoon.

Specific policies should be designed for Vietnamese female guest workers to support them in dealing with risks and difficulties arising while working and when returning home, heard a seminar on April 3.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will pay an official visit to Vietnam from April 5-7 amid remarkable progresses seen across sectors in the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries.

Three bodies have been found following a helicopter crash at Semenyih town in Selangor, Malaysia, on Saturday (Apr 4) afternoon.

More than 5,000 businesses became operational again in the first quarter of this year, posting a 10 per cent year-on-year increase.

Hanoi market gardeners established another 500 hectares of safe vegetables in the first quarter of this year.

Shareholders will be unable to negotiate dividends with their banks this year, with the final decision resting with the State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV), according to senior bank officials.