VIETNAM TODAY

Welcoming Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives, Bronwyn Bishop, in Hanoi on September 13, Party General Secretary, Nguyen Phu Trong, urged Vietnam and Australia to further develop economic and trade ties to match their potential.

Rescuers SAVED about 100 people overnight and recovered two bodies from a ferry that sank in the central Philippines, officials said Sunday.

Vietnamese national team suffered a harrowing 0-1 defeat at the hands of their tenacious Japanese opponents on September 13.

President Barack Obama condemned as a "barbaric murder" the slaying of British aid worker David Haines by Islamic State extremists.

Marksmen Hoang Xuan Vinh and Tran Quoc Cuong have earned the right to compete in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

IS militants fighting in Iraq and Syria released a video on Saturday which purported to show the beheading of British AID worker David Haines.

Several experts have said that Vietnam should improve the domestic tobacco industry to reduce the demand for smuggled tobacco.

Dozens of households in HCM City's District 7 have complained that their homes are being hit by balls from a nearby golf course.

Hundreds of workers at a Taiwanese-owned company in Ninh Binh Province on September 11 went on strike to oppose what they see as unfair treatment.

"Anyone who has had a dream, anyone who is passionate about anything, anyone who is working towards success or has met success, anyone who struggles or struggled with challenges can relate to this show," choreographer John Huy Tran says

VietJetAir, Vietnam's low cost airline, began selling 360,000 tickets on September 12 for travel during the next Lunar New Year holiday.

Vietnam plans to send a nano-satellite weighing 10kg to orbit in 2016, Associate Prof. Dr. Pham Anh Tuan, Director of the Vietnam National Satellite Centre (VNSC) has revealed.

Nearly half of girls in South Asia marry before their 18th birthday as children in the region continue paying the price of persistent inequality, according to a UNICEF report released Thursday.

Three Vietnamese men have been isolated in the HCM City Hospital for Tropical Diseases after they returned to Vietnam on the same flight from Ebola-affected Liberia.

Over 800 delegates assembled on September 12 at a national scientific conference on HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases in Can Tho City.

Indonesian officials are confident they will return from the Asian Games in South Korea with confirmation that their country will host the next edition, and are pitching a two-city event that they'd like to stage a year ahead of schedule.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a plan to equitise Vietnam Airlines, the national flag carrier.

The 2014 'Green Action Day' campaign, aiming to raise awareness of using energy efficiently, was launched at Cultural Friendship Palace in Hai Phong city on September 12.

A study, conducted by the Ministry of Education and Training, found that 1.1 million children between 5-14 years of age do not attend school, a workshop in Hanoi on September 11 heard.