VIETNAM TODAY

Many villa projects in Hanoi are being sold at surprisingly low prices amid the slump in the market when their investors want to clear out the stocks.

As Ukraine plunged into political crisis, residents of the eastern city of Kharkiv began making a weekly pilgrimage to one of two iconic statues.

Vietnam will have a modern tool to measure its greenhouse gas emissions, helping it to effectively respond to climate change, according to the Vietnam Investment Review.

Deputy PM Vu Duc Dam is attending the Boao Form for Asia 2014 on April 8-11 in Hainan Province, China at the invitation of the Chinese Government and the BFA Organizing Committee.

An international exhibition at a New York museum from April 14-July 27 will feature Southeast Asian sculptural traditions from the Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms, including a variety of Vietnamese antiques.

A three-day International Grape and Wine festival will be held in Phan Rang City in Ninh Thuan Province from April 17-19 with the aim of promoting exchange, seeking investment opportunities and attracting tourists.

Two Chinese anti-corruption activists went on trial under heavy security Tuesday, in Beijing's latest strike against a burgeoning rights movement.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has directed the Ministry of Information and Communications to take charge of the Vietnam Mobile Telecom Services company and the Institute of Post & Telecommunications Technology.

The World Bank forecasts that Vietnam’s economy will achieve a growth rate of 5.5% in 2014 and 5.6% in 2015, 0.1 percentage point and 0.2 percentage point higher than the forecast it made in last October.

Seventy overseas Vietnamese from more than 20 countries and territories across the world on April 7 began a three-week visit to Vietnam with a trip to the northern midland province of Phu Tho.

Several major airlines in Vietnam have showed their ambitions to expand their operations in many new international routes in the time to come.

A number of Vietnamese banks have continued slashing deposit interest rates for some short terms to below the ceiling level regulated by the State Bank of Vietnam.

The central Vietnamese province of Quang Tri and its Lao counterpart Salavan on April 7 signed a 2014-2016 cooperation document in the areas of politics, economics, culture and education.

Congressman Eni Falemavaega of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs has released a statement commending Vietnam’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Report which was approved by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on February 8.

The hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 could soon head to the ocean floor using an autonomous sonar vessel after possible black box signals were detected, the head of the Australian-led search operation said Tuesday.

An ethnic Vietnamese man, who illegally went to work in China, is being brought home after he was found lost in Pakistan.

American Feeds Company, a wholly US invested company of the Gold Coin Group, inaugurated its feed mill in Binh Giang district, Hai Duong province, on April 7.

Two US naval ships, the USS John S. McCain and USNS Safeguard, docked at Tien Sa Port in Danang on April 7, beginning an exchange visit to Vietnam.

Over the past five decades, tourism has helped transform Singapore into a premier lifestyle destination and vibrant global city, said S Iswaran, Minister, Prime Minister’s Office, and Second Minister for Home Affairs and Trade and Industry at the Tourism