VIETNAM TODAY

Some provisions under the draft law on immigration and residency for foreigners in Vietnam have come under fire due to their obvious lack of practicality.

After a short, intense chase, two Philippine police gunboats catch up with an illegal fishing vessel and circle it like menacing sharks, their armed commandos poised to rappel onboard.

Gazprom Neft plans to buy a 49% share in Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical, which controls and manages the Dung Quat refinery.

Three people remain unaccounted for while three others are hospitalized in serious condition after a fishing boat inexplicably exploded on June 16 about 1 nautical mile offshore from central Binh Thuan province.

Vietnam and China will examine ways to resolve the current tensions in the East Sea at their Inter-Governmental Committee meeting slated for June 18.

Local hospitals and health centres at wards and communes in Hanoi's suburban districts are struggling to acquire enough patients and doctors despite boasting well-built facilities, local media has reported.

A crew of 39 Vietnamese fishermen are now facing charges of illegal fishing in Bruneian waters.

The U.S. is urgently deploying several hundred armed troops in and around Iraq and considering sending an additional contingent of special forces soldiers as Baghdad struggles to repel a rampant insurgency, even as the White House insists anew that

The Ministry of Interior proposed a draft decree which would require local deputy ministers to be fluent in at least one foreign language, among other qualifications.

The HCM Securities Corporation (HSC) has valued Mobifone at about US$3.4 billion.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has held an international press conference in Hanoi to clarify China’s wrongful allegations of the current situation in the East Sea.

Citing a need to respond to important infectious disease threats in South East Asia, public health officials from Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia agreed today to actively collaborate on a new study on sepsis, an major cause of death due

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and his Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte have agreed to set up a strategic partnership on agriculture and food security at their talks in Hanoi on June 16.

Around 7,000 overseas Vietnamese in Germany and international sympathisers joined a march to protest China’s illegal and aggressive actions in the East Sea.

Vietnam and the Netherlands issued a joint statement during Prime Minister Mark Rutte's official visit to Vietnam on June 16-17.

An explosion at a pub in Hanoi's Cau Giay District injured six people and caused serious damage to the pub on June 16.

Young budding pianist Nguyen Quang Hong An received Honourable Mention in the intermediary category at the prestigious 15th Annual San Jose International Piano Competition.

Malaysia's government pledged on Monday that it "will not rest" until missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is found, as it marked the 100th day since the plane vanished on March 8 with 239 passengers and crew.

HCM City has spent over VND140 billion to attract and support teachers for local nursery schools, as this sector of education is facing a shortages in human resources.