VIETNAM TODAY

Minister of Education and Training Pham Vu Luan has met his Singaporean counterpart HengSweeKeat to discuss the operations of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation, as well as ways to foster bilateral cooperation in education.

Lax management in the online game business in Vietnam has created opportunities for many local firms cooperate with foreign partners for illegal game distribution.

Vietnam has paid a great deal of attention to improving the environment for its sustainable development and investment, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh has declared.

Low-cost airline VietJetAir announces exciting new flight schedule, of seven direct fights per week between Hanoi-Phu Quoc, as from May 28, 2014.

Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin confronted one another in telephone talks Monday as a standoff over Ukraine escalated after the CIA chief visited Kiev and a Russian war plane "buzzed" a US destroyer.

A delegation from the Communist Party of China (CPC) led by Hu Chunhua, Politburo member and Secretary of Guangdong Provincial Party Committee is on a working visit to Vietnam from April 13- 17.

The US State Patent and Trademark Office has granted a certificate of monopoly protection for two Vietnamese trademarks “Dao market fragrant rice" and "ChauThanh-Long An dragon fruit ".

Twenty six artists from Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines are joining in a painting exhibition, to share their sympathies and compassion for the victims of the historic typhoon Haiyan.

Thousands of swallows are trapped and killed daily by residents in a coastal village in the central province of Ha Tinh.

Australia decided Monday to deploy a mini-submarine to scour the unmapped Indian Ocean seabed for Malaysian jet MH370 at a daunting depth of 4,500 metres (15,000 feet), ending the search for black-box signals.

A street festival themed “heritage and cultural colour” has Hue City streets bustling with a highly charged jubilant and festive atmosphere.

The National Steering Committee for ODA and Preferential Loans and the Ministry of Planning and Investment have jointly organised a conference seeking ways to speed up disbursement for ODA- related projects.

Hundreds of households in Quang Binh Province have complained that the noise and dust from a local factory has been making life difficult there for seven years.

During an online meeting with authorities, many Vietnamese students who are studying abroad showed curiosity about job opportunities in Vietnam after graduation.

Hanoi is planning to build a monorail system to ease its traffic congestion and connect the existing railway routes.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will pay an official visit to Vietnam on April 15-16 at the invitation of Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh.

Businesses that struggled to survive between the years 2011 and 2013 are now leaders in terms of both business administration and independent business strategy.

All players involved in Ninh Binh's match fixing allegations will be banned for life from football activities, Vietnam Football Federation chairman Le Hung Dung has confirmed.

Ukraine on Sunday launched an "anti-terrorist operation" in the eastern town of Slavyansk, where pro-Russian gunmen have seized police and security services buildings, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said.