VIETNAM TODAY

Nearly 700 overseas Vietnamese from different countries and territories gathered at HCM City's Nha Rong Wharf to join this year's Homeland Spring programme.

Concerns are growing about a Spring-Summer measles outbreak as more cities and hospitals report infections, raising fears of another epidemic of the highly contagious disease.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung has cut the ribbon to officially open the Ho Chi Minh City-Long Thanh-Dau Giay Expressway.

The construction of a gas processing plant, part of the Ca Mau Gas-Electricity-Fertiliser Complex, commenced in the southernmost province of Ca Mau on February 7 in the presence of Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

The 2015 Earth Hour response programme, which calls upon people to save energy to cope with climate change, was launched in Hanoi on February 7.

A group of US Vietnam War veterans returning to the battlefields of their past recently visited HCM City to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the war and the upcoming lunar New Year Festival (Tet).

Agreements have been signed establishing sister city relations between Danang City and Kunming City, the capital and largest city in the Yunnan Province in Southwest China.

An environmentally friendly kindergarten in Dong Nai Province has won a Building of the Year Award conferred by US architecture magazine Archdaily.

The process of merging VTC and the Voice of Vietnam (VOV) will start this month, according to an official of the information and communication ministry (MIC).

Vietnamese Deputy PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his counterpart, Laos Somsavad Lengsavath, inaugurated a "one-stop-shop" custom model at the Lao Bao-Densavan international border gate between Vietnam and Laos.

Fourteen hospitals have signed commitments to try and end the practice of putting two or three patients in a bed during overcrowding, according to Government website chinhphu.vn.

Senior officials from 21 member economies of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum commenced their meeting in the northern Philippine province of Pampanga on February 6.

Thousands of people are calling for a boycott of a popular soft drink after a consumer complained of finding a fly in a sealed bottle and was arrested for attempting to extort compensation for keeping it a secret.

The UN Security Council plans to adopt a resolution next week aimed at halting funding to Islamic State militants from oil, antique trafficking and ransoms, a diplomat said Friday.

Organisers of buffalo fighting festivals are determined the traditional contest will continue, but agreed that the slaughter of winning beasts would be conducted away from spectators.

Vietnam is looking forward to the participation of all members of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) at its 132nd Assembly to be held in Hanoi from March 28 to April 1, said Chairman of the Vietnamese National Assembly’s Committee for

The Hue Monuments Conservation Centre undertook an US-funded project worth 700,000 USD to restore the facade of the Trieu To Temple in the ancient imperial citadel of Hue in central Thua Thien-Hue province.

Jakarta , the capital of Indonesia , has received the status of the city with the worst traffic in the world by the British lubricant producer Castrol.

A conference was held in Hanoi to officially release the Vietnam Coalition for Education for All, the fifth non-government organisation in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Training to implement educational goals.