VIETNAM TODAY

A Vietnamese-American doctor of traditional medicine has never forgotten what he missed most after his family left Vietnam to move to the US 22 years ago.

Well-wishers on Friday had raised nearly $100,000 for a baby reportedly left with his surrogate Thai mother after his Australian parents discovered he had Down's Syndrome and returned home with his healthy twin sister.

The Conservation Centre of Thang Long – Hanoi Relics has put on display 24 architectural designs for the Central Sector of the Thang Long – Hanoi Imperial Citadel's Archaeological Site at 18 Hoang Dieu Street in order to gather

Even though China has removed the Haiyang-981 oil rig from Vietnamese waters, legal documents have been filed to pursue a lawsuit against China.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung has asked Japan to continue to encourage its businesses to invest in Vietnam during his meeting with visiting Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida in Hanoi.

The Vietnam Airlines Corporation gained total revenue of nearly 28 trillion VND (1.32 billion USD) for the first half of this year, according to a report released by the corporation on July 31.

Japan on Friday named five uninhabited small isles belonging to an island group in the center of a dispute with China as part of efforts to reinforce its claim.

The Vietnam – Japan Cooperation Committee gathered in Hanoi on August 1 to discuss measures to realize outcomes and agreements reached by the two countries’ high-level leaders.

Retail cooking gas prices will be reduced by VND 1,000 per kilogram in August due to falling prices on the world market, according to several companies in HCM City.

At least 10 children have reportedly died of Japanese encephalitis in July in the northern mountainous Son La Province, the provincial Health Department announced this morning.

A three-day Gaza cease-fire went into force on Friday as diplomats worked to broker a lasting truce in the 25-day-old Israel-Hamas war, but Gaza officials said the lull was broken after nearly two hours when Israeli tank fire killed

The State Bank of Vietnam announced that operations at the Vietnam Construction Bank continue as normal after the police arrested members of the bank's top management.

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has suspended nine players of The Vissai Ninh Binh FC for their alleged engagement in an AFC Cup 2014 match-fixing scandal.

Overseas remittances to HCM City in the first seven months reached US$2.42 billion, representing a year-on-year increase of 5.2 per cent.

In a bid to protect wild animals, private businesses are teaming up with Education for Nature-Vietnam (ENV), a non-governmental organization, to promote the conservation of nature and the environment.

After over two months of intensive work, experts from the Vietnam Institute of Archaeology (VIA) and the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences have unearthed 24 prehistoric archaeological relics.

First 113 Vietnamese workers have received immediate assistance from the Vietnamese embassy in Turkey and Turkish companies to fly home safely from fierce clashes in Libya.

At least 24 people were killed and 271 others injured when several underground gas explosions ripped through Taiwan's second-largest city overnight, hurling concrete through the air and blasting long trenches in the streets, authorities said Friday.

The Japanese Government has decided to provide Vietnam with six used patrol boats as part of a non-refundable aid package, and hopes these vessels will be upgraded for security patrols at sea.