VIETNAM TODAY

A cargo ship carrying 2 tonnes of clams sank this morning, December 16, in rough sea, leaving six dead.

Hanoi municipal authorities are seeking to temporarily close a bar in for a number of violations after complaints from local residents.

Health Ministers from ten ASEAN countries, China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea gathered at a special meeting held in Bangkok, Thailand, December 14-15 to discuss an action plan on Ebola preparedness and response in the region.

Nearly 10,000 pieces of unexploded ordnances have been found and destroyed during a three-month campaign in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai.

Ted Osius, the newly-appointed US ambassador to Vietnam, has just arrived in Hanoi to start his term in the country.

Japan on Tuesday ordered the slaughter of some 4,000 chickens after officials confirmed bird flu at a poultry farm in the southwest of the country.

A silver pheasant listed as rare and threatened in Vietnam by the International Union for Conservation of Nature has been spotted in a forest in central Quang Binh Province.

Noted HCM City-based photographer Ly Hoang Long won a runner-up prize in the One Shot-One Moment category in the 2014 edition of the Travel Photographer of the Year (TPOTY).

Decorators for Christmas are going up all over Hanoi, with the services of professional decorators in high demand throughout the capital.

Declining oil prices over the past month have yet to be reflected in lower ticket prices among airlines operating in Vietnam.

High-profile banker Nguyen Duc Kien, former Vice Chairman of the Asia Commercial Bank Founding Council still faced a sentence of 30-year imprisonment as declared by the Hanoi Court of Appeals on December 15.

A court in northern China on Monday cleared a man of the rape and murder of a woman in a public toilet 18 years after he was executed for the crime.

Vietnam’s Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang and Minister in charge for Trade of Asia – Europe Economic Committee Andrei A. Slepnhev have signed a joint statement on conclusion of negotiations on the Free Trade Agreement between

A northern white rhinoceros that zoo officials said was only one of six left in the world died Sunday at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

The United Nations pledged further support for Vietnam in dealing with all forms of gender-based violence against women and girls, including physical, emotional, sexual abuse and human trafficking.

Vietnam welcomed over 7.2 million foreign visitors over the past 11 months, an increase of 5.4% compared to the same period last year, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism.

Farmers in Nam Dinh Province are flocking to a roadside market in Yen Chinh Commune, with bumper hauls of rats as the rat hunting season gets into full swing.

The alleged rape of a woman passenger by an Uber taxi driver once again spotlights the risks of India's transport system, which fails to keep women safe. One solution: Taxis driven by women for women.

Building the 5,000ha Long Thanh International Airport would affect about 4,540 households in six communes of southern Dong Nai Province, the provincial People's Committee said.