VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnam will play a game of pride against China in the last group C match at the Asian Football Confederation U19 Championship in Yangon, Myanmar, on October 13.

A powerful cyclone that slammed into India's eastern seaboard weakened as it moved inland Monday, leaving at least eight dead in its wake. Rescue workers readied helicopters, aircraft and ships to carry out relief operations once daylight made clear

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s European trip is designed to examine ways to push up comprehensive, substantial and effective relations between Vietnam and its European partners.

Vietnam surpassed China to become the top exporter of frozen fish fillets to Brazil over the past eight months, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).

Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters have an "almost zero chance" of changing Beijing's stance and securing free elections despite more than two weeks of rallies, the city's embattled leader Leung Chun-ying said Sunday.

Twenty percent of Vietnam’s population might contract cardiovascular diseases by 2017, particularly young people.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s upcoming visit to Belgium is to provide political impetus for concluding the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) negotiations in the months ahead, ushering in a new period of cooperation between Vietnam and Belgium and

The Hanoi Department of Education and Training in collaboration with the Non-Governmental Organization Plan in Vietnam launched a safe, friendly and equal school project in Thach That high school in Hanoi on October 11 in response to International Day

Children's innocent eyes and mothers breast-feeding their babies are among the touching images in a photography exhibition at the Vietnamese Women's Museum in Hanoi.

The third round of discussions of the Vietnam-China working group on marine cooperation took place in Nanning city, China on October 9-10.

The national-flagship airline, Vietnam Airlines, has ordered 10 modern Airbus A350 aircraft equipped with sleeping chairs and Wifi.

The hijacked tanker Sunrise 689 arrived in Vung Tau City on October 11, and will be inspected before any repairs are carried out.

The Ministry of Transport has told bus and taxi companies to lower their fees in response to recent falls in the price of fuel.

After 60 years of national liberation and with many ups and downs, Hanoi has transformed into a major metropolitan area of the region and the world and has been honoured as the city for peace, said Chairman of the

The capital will have 13 more industrial parks (IPs) spread over 6,000 hectares by 2020, a 300 per cent increase in comparison with the current number of parks.

Heavy metals in the soil, including lead and zinc, threaten the land environment around industrial zones in Dong Nai province.

North Korea's state media said on Saturday high-level talks with the South were now all but scrapped due to the launch of anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets from the South a day earlier.

A local family in the central province of Ha Tinh has discovered 22kg of ancient bronze coins in their garden, said Le Ba Hanh, Deputy Director of the provincial Museum.

The profits of the Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group (Vinacomin) in the first nine months of the year is expected to reach VND1.2 trillion (US$57.1 million).