VIETNAM TODAY

An original art performance entitled, "Về Miền Quan Họ" (Coming Back to Quan họ land) will be staged at the Kinh Bắc cultural centre in northern Bắc Ninh city on March 7.

Hospitals in HCM City have boosted emergency room staff numbers for the Tet, expecting a dramatic increase in the number of traffic accident trauma cases over the holiday period.

The State Bank of Vietnam will allow domestic commercial banks to start companies responsible for transporting cash to branches and transaction offices in order to reduce related expenses.

Vietnam's economic growth for the three months leading up to April 2015 will quicken to an annual rate of 5.4%, the National Financial Supervisory Commission forecast in a recently released report.

Chinese businesswoman Chen Yili paid a South Korean hospital thousands of dollars to reshape her face in the hope she would look more like the glamorous stars she saw on television.

State President Truong Tan Sang extended his seasonal greetings and best wishes to all Vietnamese people at home and abroad on the eve of the traditional lunar New Year.

Thousands of people gathered across Vietnam to watch the fireworks that were lit to herald the start of the Year of the Goat.

Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was released from hospital on February 18, two days after a surgery to remove his prostate.

Police in Thai Nguyen Province seized 200kg of heroin and 400 meth-amphetamine pills on the Thai Nguyen expressway.

Spas and salons are seeing booming business as customers rush their doors in the final hours before the Lunar New Year.

A stable economy is having a positive effect on consumer confidence and this together with lower oil prices and interest rates should cause spending to improve this year, Richard Leech, Executive Director of CBRE Vietnam, has forecast.

The police have come across 18 violations of the ban imposed on burning firecrackers in the central Quang Tri Province.

UK Queen Elizabeth II has voiced strong support for cooperation programmes between Vietnam and her nation while receiving Vietnam Ambassador to the UK and Northern Ireland Nguyen Van Thao who presented his credentials at Buckingham Palace in London on

The Philippine government said Wednesday it had received 87 million pesos ($1.97 million) from the United States to pay for damage caused by a U.S. Navy minesweeper to a protected reef two years ago.

The Electricity of Vietnam has asked the National Power Transmission Corporation to double efforts to put into use a number of power projects as soon as possible.

Traffic accidents across Vietnam killed 33 people and injured 26 others yesterday, the latest report from the National Traffic Safety Committee has revealed.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday urged Kiev to allow Ukrainian soldiers who are encircled by pro-Russian rebels in the town of Debaltseve to lay down their weapons.

The European Union is the top partner in Vietnam’s foreign policy, stated Vuong Thua Phong, Ambassador to Belgium and head of the Vietnamese Delegation to the EU.

The European Union (EU) is the top partner in Vietnam’s foreign policy, stated Vuong Thua Phong, Ambassador to Belgium and head of the Vietnamese Delegation to the EU.