VIETNAM TODAY

The establishment of a Family and Children's Court in Vietnam is needed to ensure improved prosecution and judicial system in cases involving children.

Police in the southern city of Can Tho have arrested a man who allegedly fired several gunshots at a local guesthouse.

Coastguard vessels and helicopters have been deployed to rescue more than 450 people -- mostly high school students -- aboard a ferry that ran aground and sank off South Korea’s southern coast.

Minister of Education and Training Pham Vu Luan has suggested the Southeast Asia Ministers of Education Organisation’s Regional Language Centre improves the professional skills of English teachers in Vietnam.

One of the smaller but startling cultural differences many foreigners encounter when coming to Vietnam is that it seems to be perfectly okay to ask a perfect stranger how much money they make.

The Japanese government is considering an initiative to grant visa exemption for citizens from Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines, in an effort to turn Japan into an attractive tourist destination.

Many people have voiced objections to a newly-issued regulation requiring employers of domestic helpers to pay labour insurance.

The environment protection agencies of Vietnam and the US should strengthen cooperation in the areas of mutual concern, including biological technology development, pollution control, and environmental protection in the river basin.

Police said Tuesday they had intervened after North Korean embassy officials reportedly told a London hairdresser to take down a discount haircuts advert featuring leader Kim Jong-Un.

The Ministry of Education and Training is considering a plan to spend VND34 trillion on reforming textbooks and curriculum for general education.

The World Bank has announced Vietnam is among the top ten overseas remittance recipients in the world, receiving US$11 billion last year alone.

Rice exports in Vietnam are suffering due to tough international markets and lax management over production and processing.

Samuel Christopher Russell, country director of the Vietnam Children’s Fund, has been awarded Vietnam’s Friendship Order in recognition of his contribution to child care and protection in Vietnam.

The HCM City-based Hong Van Drama Troupe, a leading private theatre, is offering training courses in performance skills as the number of talented actors has declined in recent years.

Nearly 3,000 residents in Pho Thanh Commune of central Quang Ngai Province have been living with a foul stench and odorous wastewater leaking from a nearby waste treatment facility in Duc Pho District.

The Dung Quat Oil Refinery and affiliates on April 15 welcomed an important milestone, working for 600 consecutive days and nights in a safe, stable and effective manner.

The central city of Danang on April 15 hosted a ceremony to launch the Vietnam fishery resources surveillance force in the presence of Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai along with leaders from several

A hero of Vietnamese People’s Armed Forces, said in an interview that he is not happy with rumours that a road was made to curve away from their homes because of their status.

Japan has finished slaughtering 112,000 chickens after confirming its first bird flu infections for three years, with authorities stepping up efforts to swiftly contain the latest outbreak, officials said Tuesday.