VIETNAM TODAY

The domestic tourism sector thrived during the National Reunification Day and May Day holidays, with sunny weather helping lift the number of vacationers by 20% compared to the same period last year.

A golf course complex costing VND5.5 trillion (USD260.5 million) will be built in Thanh Hoa despite abundant supply in the market.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong met voters for National Assembly (NA) deputies in Hanoi’s Ba Dinh and Hoan Kiem districts on May 3 to listen to their opinions prior to the 13th NA’s seventh session.

Afghan rescuers and hundreds of volunteers armed with shovels and little more than their bare hands dug through earth and mud Saturday looking for survivors or bodies of loved ones killed by a massive landslide in the remote northeast.

At least five people were found dead in a fire that broke out at a four-story karaoke bar in Hanoi’s Giang Vo street on May 3.

Vietnamese exports to Algeria have steadily increased in recent times, up almost 40% year-on-year in 2013, making the North African nation one of the country’s largest export markets.

Thai opposition leader Abhisit Vejjajiva on Saturday urged that a general election planned for July be delayed by up to six months to allow time for reforms aimed at ending a protracted political crisis that threatens to explode.

The US travel magazine National Geographic has introduced Vietnam’s savoury Chung (square) and Giay (round) cakes among the world’s top ten traditional dishes.

Chairman of the International Organising Committee for the United Nations Day of Vesak 2014, Most Venerable Thich Thanh Nhieu, has said he believes the celebrations in the northern province of Ninh Binh on May 8-10 will be a success.

A jury awarded Apple $119.46 million, far less than it demanded, in a patent battle with Samsung over alleged copying of smart phone features, and the jury made the victory even smaller by finding that Apple illegally used one

Coffee, the key export of the central highland province of Dak Lak, is capturing an ever increasing share of the world market and is now exported to more than 60 countries and territories around the globe.

Landslides buried a village in northern Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 350 people and leaving thousands of others feared dead, as rescuers searched desperately for survivors trapped under the mud.

The high demand for tobacco in Vietnam has helped create a situation in which billions of cigarettes are smuggled into the country each year.

The National Traditional Boat Racing Tournament will kick off on May 5, on the Con Son Lake of the Con Son-Kiep Bac Tourism Site in Hai Duong Province.

Tours of the villa of Cong tu Bac Lieu, the legendary rich playboy who lived in southern Vietnam in the early 1900s, are now available.

Food producers need to heavily invest to truly differentiate their products as competition is fierce from rivals, according to industry leaders and analysts.

The valleys and canyons beneath the seas around Europe are filling with rubbish which is disrupting and destroying marine life, according to a scientific study published on Wednesday.

Nguyen Cong Tri is one of 100 well-known contemporary designers who have been invited to Italy to attend a large fashion exhibition.

In the next few months, highly secretive US military researchers say they will unveil new advances toward developing a brain implant that could one day restore a wounded soldier's memory.