VIETNAM TODAY

Chairman of the Thue Thien-Hue People’s Committee met with a Chief Specialist of the Asian Development Bank regarding the Urban Development type II- Green City infrastructure project.

Fast growth in the steel, construction and real estate sectors are leading the economy out of recession, studies released on March 10 by Vietnam Report JSC.

The fifth Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival has kicked off in Buon Ma Thuot city, Central Highlands province of Dak Lak, as part of activities to mark the 40th anniversary of the Buon Ma Thuot victory.

One person was killed and four others seriously injured in a collision between a train and a truck in Quang Tri Province late last night (March 10).

US Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Steve Daines on March 9 introduced the Senate to a bill aiming to ensure disability and health care benefits for thousands of Vietnam war veterans exposed to toxic Agent Orange, which the US troops

Serious drought is afflicting the central, central highlands and southern regions of Vietnam with rainfall down to 20-70 that of last year.

A Kenyan police officer has been arrested with a piece of illegal rhino horn worth tens of thousands of dollars on the black market, wildlife officials said.

Objects, letters and diaries recording essential moments in the lives of more than 80 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people throughout Vietnam are on display at the first exhibition of its kind in downtown Hanoi.

An environmental tax on petrol and other fuel in Vietnam will rise by 300 percent after the NA approved a tax hike to offset an expected shortfall in budget revenue.

The Vietnam Administration of Seas and Islands (VASI) organised a Vietnam-Philippines conference on March 10 in Hanoi to evaluate the implementation of bilateral cooperation in coping with oceanic oil spills and to outline future collaboration plans.

Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Le Hoang Quan and Mayor of the Netherlands’ Rotterdam Ahmed Aboutaleb signed a memorandum of understanding for a co-operative programme on climate change from 2015-2018.

At a private working lunch for the five most powerful members of the United Nations Security Council, the conversation turned to the question of the next U.N. secretary-general.

The Ministry of Education and Training and other related authorities should prepare for the smooth organisation of this year’s national high school graduation and university entrance exam, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has urged.

The wet weather currently blanketing the country was making it easier for bacteria to spread, resulting in an increase of respiratory and digestive diseases, and chicken-pox among children in both northern and southern areas, according to doctors.

The first A350 XWB for Vietnam Airlines (VNA) has rolled out of Airbus's paint hangar in Toulouse, France, according to a VNA press release.

People will be able to send authorities information about forest safety with their mobile devices in six provinces, under a project launched in Hanoi.

Police in the northern mountainous province of Son La has taken into custody two locals for illegally transporting 26 Vietnamese people to China.

Officers and workers will enjoy a six-day long public holiday to mark a series of occasions, the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has announced.

Residents in Lao Cai Province are blockading a section of the Noi Bai-Lao Cai Highway in protest against inadequate compensation for the properties they lost for the project.