VIETNAM TODAY

The annual – Hanoi Sound Stuff – music festival will kick off on April 9 in three venues in the city with a star-studded line-up of internationally talented musicians taking to the stage.

The Vietnam International Travel Mart (VITM) 2015 officially opened in Hanoi yesterday, adopting the theme "Vietnam – The Land of Heritage."

Deputy Transport Minister Nguyen Hong Truong said on April 3 the government had yet to receive any official information about an alleged Posco corruption case from South Korean government.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh and Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi have vowed to work for the target of raising two-way trade to 10 billion USD in 2018 from 5.4 billion USD last year.

Vietnam's Grandmaster Le Quang Liem has jumped 13 spots to 52nd in the world rankings.

The bodies of the 148 students and security officers massacred by Somalia's Shebab Islamists in a Kenyan university were flown Friday to Nairobi where their desperate and grieving loved ones were waiting.

Vietnam wants to deepen cooperation with India in all fields on the basis of their special trust, particularly in national defence and security, according to Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

The first stem cell transplant from community umbilical cord blood samples was conducted successfully, Director of the National Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion Professor Nguyen Anh Tri said yesterday (NIHBT).

The Australian Consul General in HCM City and Vinacapital on April 2 presented 18 pieces of newborn healthcare equipment to the Khanh Hoa General Hospital in Nha Trang city in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa.

After 10 grim days for the Germanwings search team, Alice Coldefy -- the only woman working at the crash site -- found the elusive black box on her first day on the job.

Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has said that he endorses the early formulation of a legal framework to encourage investment into the production of solar energy.

Three Asian Black bears (Ursus thibetanus) in captivity on two private farms in Ben Tre and Ba Ria - Vung Tau provinces have been saved by Animals Asia Foundation and have been transferred to Vietnam Bear Rescue Center in

Vietnam’s beer consumption rate has been sharply increasing over the past 15 years, while remaining largely unchanged in the rest of the world, a Health Ministry official said.

Six people who hid in a supermarket refrigerator during January's Islamist attacks in Paris have sued French media for broadcasting their location live during the siege.

Pet care services are sprouting up across Vietnam, and bring good earnings for those catering to the growing trend for pet ownership among the young.

Vietnamese athletes have won 140 medals, including 62 gold, 43 silver and 35 bronze, in 25 international tournaments during the first three months of this year, said the General Department of Sports and Physical Training.

Vietnam Television (VTV) said it will pay for a landmark 636-metre television tower, planned to be the tallest in the world, through private capital sources, rather than seek state budget assistance for the project, a VTV official said.

A monument design contest to honour the late Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh was launched at the University of Sussex on April 1 to celebrate his connection with the port town of Newhaven in the UK’s Sussex region.

Vietnam ranks the third in Asia in terms of the increase in the number of new wealth builders who have averaged assets of up to USD2 million, said a report by The Economist magazine and CitiBank.