VIETNAM TODAY

Pro-democracy protests expanded in Hong Kong on Monday, a day after demonstrators upset over Beijing's decision to limit political reforms defied onslaughts of tear gas and appeals from Hong Kong's top leader to go home.

Quach Thi Lan dashed to silver in the women’s 400m final on September 28, collecting Vietnam’s first medal in athletics at the ongoing 17th Asian Games (Asiad) in Incheon, Republic of Korea.

Police from Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem district on September 27 announced that they commenced legal proceedings against an Indonesian national for trafficking nearly 5kg of heroin to the capital.

Amid the changes of modern life, arts researchers are concerned that traditional activities could disappear. They are particularly worried about bai choi, a traditional musical game from the central coastal region.

Rescue workers have found 30 or more people unconscious and believed to be dead near the peak of an erupting volcano in central Japan, local government and police said Sunday.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong will pay a State-level visit to the Republic of Korea (RoK) from October 1-4 at the invitation of Korean President Park Geun-hye, aiming to deepen the strategic partnership.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung initiated the 27km underground cable connecting Ly Son island district in the central province of Quang Ngai to the national electricity grid on September 28.

An exhibition documenting Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos is ongoing in the southernmost province of Ca Mau, with materials tracing back to the 16th century and a six-volume atlas compiled by a famous

Six promising young Vietnamese DJs will participate in a 12-week competition called BUDJs launched on Thursday in HCM City.

Tens of thousands of books can be viewed by readers at the Hanoi Book Fair which opened at the Royal Citadel Heritage site on September 26.

Vietnamese banknotes have gone through many changes since they first appeared as colonial banknotes.

National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines has been forced to cancel flights from Ho Chi Minh City to France as French pilots kicked off a two-week strike from September 16-28.

Nguyen Thien Nhan will stay on his top job as President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee (VFFCC) in the next five years, the eighth Front Congress that wrapped up in Hanoi on September 27 has concluded.

The US may remove the embargo on the sales of weapons to Vietnam and this is an expected step in the normalisation process between the two countries, one official has said.

Vietnam was among 25 countries to support a landmark United Nations resolution upholding the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh has reiterated Vietnam's support for the United Nations peacekeeping operations at the Summit on United Nations Peacekeeping in New York on September 26.

The eighth Congress of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) opened in Hanoi on September 26 with the participation of 1,008 delegates representing all walks of life, ethnic groups and religions, as well as members of the armed forces and

Vietnam has welcomed more than 6 million foreign arrivals over the past nine months, a year-on-year increase of 10%, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).

Nearly 100 photographs of nine special national relics in Hanoi are on display at an exhibition now open at the Van Mieu-Quoc Tu Giam's (The Temple of Literature) Centre of Culture and Science.