VIETNAM TODAY

Domestic and foreign experts and policy markers joined a conference to discuss global solutions to transnational wildlife trafficking in Hanoi on March 24.

With public debt accounting for 48% of the GDP, each Vietnamese citizen currently owes VND18.6 million (USD886).

Several education experts said that the high unemployment rate among university graduates was warned about ten years ago, but the government has seemed to ignore it.

Twelve Russian painters and three Vietnamese painters are showcasing 110 paintings at a joint exhibition called Handshake Again, at the HCM City Fine Arts Museum.

Vietnam expects the US will further support Vietnam in negotiations of the TPP agreement and soon recognise the country’s market economy status.

The satellite operator Inmarsat said Monday it managed to work out which direction the missing Malaysia Airlines plane flew in by measuring the Doppler effect of hourly 'pings' from the aircraft.

Cultural heritage with integration and development will lie at the heart of the 2014 Hue Festival, which is slated to take place in the former imperial city from April 12-20.

New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully will pay a three-day visit to Vietnam, starting on March 25, at the invitation of Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh.

Three more transport officials have been temporarily fired for investigations into whether they are associated with the Japan Transportation Consultants, Inc.’s alleged bribes for an ODA project in Vietnam.

A Chinese military aircraft searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner spotted several "suspicious" floating objects on Monday in remote seas off Australia, raising hopes wreckage of the plane may soon be found.

Lufthansa German Airlines has announced its suspension of flights to Ho Chi Minh City as from March 25 after 23 years operating in Vietnam.

Six people died after jumping off a fishing boat that caught fire off a South Korean island on Monday, with efforts underway to rescue its missing captain, the coastguard said.

Nguyen Van Hieu, Director of Vietnam’s Railway Project Management Unit (PMU), under suspicion of illegally accepting bribes worth VND16 billion in connection with railway projects, has been suspended pending further investigation.

A comprehensive plan to improve green spaces, parks and gardens in the capital city has been announced by the Hanoi People's Committee.

The UK-based Westminster Kingsway College will implement a British Council-sponsored project at Vietnam’s Kien Giang Vocational College to improve students’ vocational skills.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung arrived in the Netherlands on March 23 for the third Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) at the invitation of his Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte.

The sighting of a wooden pallet and other debris that may be linked to a Malaysian passenger jet raised hopes Sunday of a breakthrough in the international search for the missing plane.

The Ministry of Transport is verifying claims that an executive of the Japan Transportation Consultants, Inc. bribed Vietnamese transport officials in return for an ODA project.

While many people in HCM City find the weather unpleasant during the recent heat wave, salt harvesters have hopes that the weather will bring profits.