VIETNAM TODAY

Your Amazing Places, a leading world tourism website, has chosen Cai Rang as one of the top 5 Asian floating markets.

Spanish police have recently arrested three Bulgarian nationals for forging credit cards to withdraw approximately 40,000 Euros from ATMs in Vietnam and hacking data from 300 credit cards at ATMs in Pamplona.

Indian President Pranab Mukherjee arrived in Hanoi on September 14, beginning his State visit through September 17 at the invitation of President Truong Tan Sang.

Vietnam National University, Hanoi and other universities throughout the nation should pay particular attention to nurturing the social and moral values of students as an integral part of the education process.

China's President Xi Jinping said he hoped the Maldives would help build a "21st century maritime silk road" as he began a South Asian tour in the strategically located Indian Ocean island chain on Monday.

A four-year-old girl in Binh Duong Province is suffering from trauma to the brain after being beaten by her mother and step-father.

While the Samsung Group plans to significantly increase their investment in Vietnam, most Vietnamese enterprises do not have the capacity to become suppliers to the giant firm.

Many residents of Haiphong were shocked on September 14 to find hundreds of patients from a drug rehabilitation facility roaming in groups in the streets of the city.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment is giving top priority to afforestation and reforestation projects in line with Vietnam's Support Programme to Respond to Climate Change.

A plan is being studied to establish a one-stop food street for vendors in the Old Quarter area of Hanoi.

Experts are seeking a much larger increase in the special consumption tax on tobacco products than that proposed by the Ministry of Finance.

Chairman of the Viet Nam National Assembly, Nguyen Sinh Hung, will lead a delegation to the 35th General Assembly of the ASEAN Inter-parliamentary Assembly (AIPA-35) being held in Vientiane, Laos, from September 15-20.

Typhoon Kalmaegi entered the East Sea in the early morning of September 15, packing winds of 118-133km per hour, reported the Central Meteorology Hydrology Forecast Centre.

British retailer Marks & Spencer, which opened in Vietnam just a fortnight ago, has announced that it has already achieved its first month’s sales target.

Nations square off in Slovenia this week over the fate of hundreds of whales in the crosshairs of Japanese and Greenland hunters accused of sidestepping a commercial killing ban.

A working team has been set up to study the establishment of the Hanoi-Ho Chi Minh City straight air route over Laos and Cambodia.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung hailed the contributions of former Japanese PM Hatoyama Yukio to the friendship and cooperation between Vietnam and Japan.

A send-off ceremony was held in Hanoi on September 13 for the Vietnamese delegation to the 17 th Asian Games (ASIAD 17), held in Incheon.

Tropical storm ‘Kalmaegi’ is forecast to enter the East Sea in the morning of September 15, becoming the third arising at the sea so far this year.