VIETNAM TODAY

Pro-Moscow rebels declared a resounding victory in a referendum on self-rule for eastern Ukraine, with some saying that meant independence and others eventual union with Russia as fighting flared in a conflict increasingly out of control.

An amended Housing Law draft would restrict foreign ownership to no more than 30 percent of apartments in a building, or 250 houses in a ward.

Thousands of people across Vietnam have protested against China's illegal installation of its oil rig in Vietnam’s territorial waters.

The PM has called on ASEAN countries to request China to abide by international law, respecting coastal state’s sovereignty at the 24th ASEAN Summit.

Several Vietnamese wealthy businessmen have recently been donating large sums to towards building pagodas and temples not only through their devotion, but also to keep their names alive.

The Ministry of Public Security took into custody six railway officials last Friday on charges of "abusing power while on duty" and "irresponsibility causing serious consequences" following a one-month investigation.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has joined leaders of other member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to discuss the development of the bloc at its 24th Summit, which opened in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar on

Thai authorities have admitted that it was a mistake to require Vietnamese travellers to prove they had 20,000 baht to be allowed into the country.

ASEAN Foreign Ministers on May 10 expressed their serious concerns over the on-going developments in the East Sea, which have increased tensions in the area.

Vietnam would definitely win if decides to take the East Sea case to international court, said former chief of the Government Border Committee Tran Cong Truc.

China has sent 83 ships to ram Vietnamese vessels within the exclusive economic zone in the East Sea after setting up an oil rig there, and to date, has showed no sign it intends to withdraw.

Toshiya Miura of Japan has penned a two-year contract with the Vietnam Football Federation to coach the national football squad and the national Olympic team.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and other relevant ministries and localities have effectively implemented foreign-funded projects to help the country raise its climate change adaptability.

To attract wealthier clients to upmarket, equitised services, some Hanoi hospitals are taking beds from the poor and putting them in special wards for the rich.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung left Hanoi on May 10 for a two-day summit of ASEAN leaders in Myanmar’s capital Nay Pyi Taw at the invitation of President Thein Sein.

Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has asked the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) and the Ministry of Finance (MoF) to complete the draft decree on petrol trading.

Professor, Ph.D. in history Dmitry Mosyakov from the Russian Academy of Sciences has called upon China to stop oil & gas operations in the disputed waters and avoid a similar mistake it made in 1992.

A Vietnamese man has spent billions of VND importing horses from European countries to raise on his farm in Hanoi.

Cambodian authorities intercepted 3 tons of illegal ivory on Friday that was stashed in shipping containers, in the largest such seizure in the Southeast Asian country, an official said.