VIETNAM TODAY

Coach Guillaume Graechen’s players delivered another impressive performance in the second friendly in the UK during their European tour, drawing their hosts U19 Wimbledon 2-2 on March 10.

Investigators in Malaysia are voicing skepticism that the airliner that disappeared early Saturday with 239 people on board was the target of an attack.

The European Union is making steady progress towards its 2020 renewable energy target, a key effort in curbing the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming, official data showed Monday.

Vietnam now tops Southeast Asia in the number of doctors, but the country is ranked among regional countries in being one the lowest in scientific research effectiveness.

Vietnam’s 18-year-old badminton player Pham Cao Cuong has leaped four places to fifth in the latest Badminton World Federation rankings.

Vietnamese and foreign searching teams have not been able to find debris from the missing Malaysian Airlines plane and are expanding the search area to Ca Mau Cape.

Several Vietnamese have recently become interested in raising fighting dogs despite wide criticism.

Ukraine sought urgent Western backing on Monday after Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted that Crimea had the right to join his country even while hinting at a readiness for dialogue.

The hustle and bustle that is typical of a traditional market in Vietnam has been re-created at an unusual exhibition at the Vietnam Women Museum in downtown Hanoi.

The Electricity of Vietnam on March 9 held a ground-breaking ceremony for the Vinh Tan 4 thermal power plant in the central coastal province of Binh Thuan.

Students from the University of Architecture in Hanoi on March 9 took the day to sketch the cantilever Long Bien Bridge, which has stood as a prominent feature of Hanoi’s image for over 100 years.

Vietnamese authorities have sent four aircraft to investigate a floating object which they suspect is a piece of debris from the missing Malaysian Airlines plane.

Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has directed that the search and rescue operation for the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner MH 370 must continue round the clock and the search should be expanded to the west.

A wide range of advanced global technologies and modern equipment in the field of mining will be introduced at t he second International Mining and Minerals Recovery Exhibition scheduled for March 11-13 at the International Centre for Exhibition in Hanoi.

The upgrade of several streets in HCM City over recent years has led to the rise of many slim strangely-shaped houses, forcing owners to adapt to their new lives.

Security measures have been intensified at Tan Son Nhat International Airport at the Ministry of Transport’s request following the missing of a Malaysia Airlines plane.

Ha Vi, the largest poultry wholesale market in Vietnam, has tightened controls over the quarantine procedures in the wake of the most recent bird flu scare.

State President Truong Tan Sang will pay an official State-level visit to Japan from March 16-19 at the invitation of Japanese Emperor Akihito.

Vietnam’s Defence Ministry has deployed 17 aircraft and 35 ships of various types from the Air and Air Defence Force, the Navy, the Maritime Police and the Border Guard to the sites where oil slicks without origin were located