VIETNAM TODAY

More and more students are opting to choose senior high school instead of vocational school in HCM City as enrollment continues to drop for the 2014-15 academic year.

Chinese vessels have expanded the area of protection around oil rig illegally positioned in Vietnamese waters, showing signs that it may have been moved.

Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida plans to visit Vietnam in late June or early July to boost cooperation in ensuring maritime security in the East Sea and East China Sea.

Moscow is ready for a direct dialogue with Ukraine's new president and doesn't need any Western mediation, Russia's foreign minister said Monday.

This morning, May 26, a wild bull went on a rampage in Dai Lanh Commune, Quang Nam Province, killing one and injuring three.

Authorities in Dong Nai Province prosecuted hundreds from in anti-China protest in order to restore public order.

Thai coup leader General Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Monday he had been formally endorsed by the king as head of a military council that will run the country, and warned he would use force if political protests flared up again.

Dang Thu Thao, born in 1997 in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho, has been sashed winner of the 2014 Miss Vietnam Ocean beauty pageant.

Chinese police in the far western region of Xinjiang have taken down 23 "terror and religious extremism groups" and caught more than 200 suspects in May, state media said, days after the region's deadliest attack in years.

Unknown ship attacked and sunk a fishing boat with six aboard from Ly Son island in Quang Ngai killing one and leaving another accounted for on May 25.

China recently intentionally misqouted a diplomatic letter of late Prime Minister Pham Van Dong, addressed to China on September 14, 1958, with the aim of distorting the truth of Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos.

Exit polls suggested candy tycoon Petro Poroshenko was elected president Sunday in the first round of balloting in the bitterly divided country, and he vowed "to bring peace to the Ukrainian land."

A headmaster in a remote district of Gia Lai province has won the respect of the local community for personally borrowing hundreds of millions of VND to build a school.

The energetic activity at one shipyard in the southern province of Binh Dinh displays the patriotism of the civilian Vietnamese fishing fleet as well as tensions over the East Sea.

Authorities in Binh Duong province on May 25 jailed two local men who took advantage of recent anti-China rallies to cause social disorder at their industrial parks.

Over 300 Vietnamese and foreign supporters raised banners in front of Sydney Town Hall, expressing their overwhelm indignation over China’s oil rig.

Around this time each year, millions of Americans are enjoying a three-day weekend heading into Memorial Day.

The United States has levied duties on stainless steel pressure pipes imported from Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam after finding the products had been sold at unfairly low prices.

Jenny Nguyen, winner of the Vietnam Supermodel 2012 style prize, is representing Vietnam in the Miss Asia-Pacific World 2014 pageant taking place in Seoul, the RoK from May 18-31.