VIETNAM TODAY

If the massive undersea search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 turns up nothing by the end of May, the three countries leading the effort will go "back to the drawing board," Malaysia's transport minister said Saturday.

Many industrial companies are facing problems recruiting new workers after large numbers of staff quit over the Tet holidays.

Vietnamese Ly Hoang Nam has advanced to the final round of the Chang Thailand Junior G1 boys singles finals ongoing in Thailand with a victory over Australia’s Marc Polmans.

Xoe dancing, an indispensible activity in the cultural life of the Tay ethnic people in Ta Chai commune, Bac Ha district, northern Lao Cai province, has been listed as a national intangible cultural heritage.

Berlin hip-hop dancer and choreographer, Raphael, Hillebrand will team up with Ha Noi-based crew S.I.N.E. to stage a new hip-hop production in Ha Noi next week.

Dry weather and diseases could affect the quality and quantity of northern provinces' rice yields, agricultural experts warned at a recent conference in Hanoi.

The Ministry of Defence held a ceremony on March 6 to put into trial operation a section of the Truong Son Dong road project, which runs from Da Lat City to Lac Duong district in the Central Highland province

A two-day forum organised by the ASEAN Women Entrepreneurs Network (AWEN) aimed at creating more opportunities for women entrepreneurs got underway on March 6 in Hanoi.

Shops in HCM City are racing to meet expected high demand for special gifts for International Women’s Day on March 8.

The Japanese General Consulate in HCM City on March 6 held a contract-signing ceremony on the provision of 580,000 USD for six projects in the fields of health, education, and environment in Vietnam.

The US has cut its anti-dumping tariffs imposed on Vietnamese shrimp sharply to the average level of 0.93% from the previous figure of 6.37%.

A new study shows one in five job postings includes gender requirement with male applicants preferred for more skilled and better paid jobs while better equality is recorded in promotion practices.

Vietnam Construction Bank has been take over by the State Bank of Vietnam to prevent uncertainty in the market over its negative capital flow.

Knife-wielding attackers slashed and stabbed people at a railway station in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, wounding at least nine before police shot dead one of the suspected assailants and arrested another.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked the finance ministry to release more than 6,930 tonnes of rice from the national reserves for nine provinces during this year's fallow period.

At least 65 complaints have been made about gift-related bribes over the Tet, although authorities have declared an incident-free holiday on the corruption front.

Nestled among hundreds of identical white and brown two-storey homes crammed in this neighborhood for factory workers is a house with a trick - one not immediately apparent from its green-painted drywall and grey shade panels.

Vietnam has not detected any new influenza strains or mutations that increase toxicity or are drug resistant, said the Ministry of Health’s Preventive Medicine Department.

Beekeepers in Dong Thap Province are gathering a bumper harvest from surrounding forests, with hives dripping with millions of VND worth of sweet melaluca honey.