VIETNAM TODAY

Ukrainian politicians and civil groups gathered on Wednesday for talks on how to quell a pro-Russian rebellion in the east, but Kiev's refusal to let separatists take part cast doubt on whether the meeting could defuse the crisis.

A 15-minute film by Vietnamese director Hoang Tran Minh Duc will be screened to compete at the Cannes Film Festival's Short Film Corner event held from May 14 to 24.

Tan Son Nhat International Airports Customs Division officials yesterday caught two Vietnamese passengers who tried to carry US$ 60,000 illegally on a flight from HCM City to the Philippines.

Environmental inspectors in Beijing are scrambling to keep pace with a rising number of cases as the city tries to impose tough new standards on thousands of polluting firms, highlighting the growing logistical problems facing China's war on smog.

Thousands of workers in some southern provinces on May 13 demonstrated their opposition to the illegal oil rig in Vietnamese waters.

After consecutive years of losses, several real estate firms in HCM City started to show more optimism in the market as the number of transaction is picking up.

The Vietnam Fisheries Society has called on fishermen to continue to go offshore and cooperate with law enforcement force in protest against China’s illegal acts.

The US State Department has confirmed that China’s aggressive action, causing tensions in the East China Sea, is fully recognized by many countries around the world.

A five-year regional project to fight human trafficking across Southeast Asia was launched in Hanoi on May 13 by the United Nations Action for Cooperation against Trafficking in Persons (UN-ACT).

Rescuers struggled to reach more than 200 miners trapped underground early Wednesday after an explosion and fire at a coal mine in western Turkey killed at least 201 workers, authorities said, in one of the worst mining disasters in

The Vietnamese Government will encourage and create every condition for businesses to invest in Myanmar, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said while receiving Myanmar Minister of Industry U Maung Myint in Hanoi on May 13.

The Ministry of Information and Communications on May 13 received and publicised a world atlas that affirms Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos.

Foreign non-governmental organisations have expressed their deep concern about China’s serious violation in Vietnam’s territorial waters.

The National University of Singapore (NUS) emerged as top and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) jumped to seventh in Quacquarelli Symonds (QS)’s Asia university rankings in 2014.

Vietnamese people showed strong support for the PM’s speech at ASEAN Summit 24, affirming Vietnam’s determination for national sovereignty protection.

Chinese vessels continue ramming and firing water cannons at Vietnamese ships in the area of the East Sea where an illegal Chinese oil rig is located.

Addressing the ASEAN Summit in Myanmar on May 11, Dung accused of China of deploying its oil rig within Vietnam’s territorial waters and sending more than 80 ships into Vietnamese sea territories illegally.

The World Bank has agreed to provide preferential loans totaling US$150 million to bolster rice production in the Mekong River Delta.

Ha Long Bay deemed a World Heritage site in 1994 in the northern province of Quang Ninh has been cited as one of the top eight most beautiful landscapes in the world by mymodernmet.com.