VIETNAM TODAY

The finance and trade ministries will set up delegations to inspect dairy production and trading companies after these companies submitted proposals to increase the prices of their products.

Deputy Minister of Interior, Tran Anh Tuan, talked in an interview about government's effort to improve the quality of their staff by cutting about 100,000 state officers.

One in three EU women has suffered a physical and/or sexual assault since the age of 15, a major new study revealing "extensive" and "systematically under-reported" violence showed on Wednesday.

Vietnam’s top Sapper commander, Major General Pham Quang Xuan, has announced that a meeting with donors who help Vietnam to deal with unexploded ordnances left behind the war is expected to take place in mid March.

Vietnam and Indonesia need to strengthen cooperation in such potential areas as trade, investment and tourism, aiming to raise two-way trade to US$10 billion in the coming time.

An International Processing, Filling and Packaging Exhibition and Conference is taking place in HCM City from March 4-6, introducing the latest advances in the plastic industry.

Vietnamese students rank fifth in the world in spending time at extra classes, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

Vietnam has reiterated its commitment to ensuring and promoting human rights at the 25th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland.

Hanoi is orchestrating a range of activities to respond to the 2014 Earth Hour campaign, with the key event to be televised live from August Square in front of the Hanoi Opera House at 8pm on March 29.

The soaring cost of cars and utilities as well as a strong currency have made Singapore the world's most expensive city, according to a survey Tuesday.

The first direct flight between Hanoi and Tokyo is scheduled to lift off on March 30, via All Nippon Airways of Japan.

Pham Nhat Vuong, founder and chairman of conglomerate Vingroup, remains the sole Vietnamese cited in Forbes magazine’s annual list of the world’s richest people.

With International Women's Day fast approaching, people are flocking to supermarkets and shops to buy gifts for their loved ones.

The central province of Thua Thien-Hue will select 3 or 4 of its products to register collective marks under a strategy to promote local specialties during the 2014-2015 period.

A campaign “Stop Using Rhino Horn” has been launched in Hanoi by the US’s WildAid, the African Wildlife Foundation and the Vietnamese non-governmental organization CHANGE, to raise awareness of the rhino horn crisis and urge people to stop consuming

Peugeot's 308 picked up the Car of the Year award Monday, a boost for the troubled car company that recently had to be rescued by the French state and China's Dongfeng.

The fourth International Women’s Cycling Tournament (Biwase Cup 2014) from March 7 to 14 will take place in the southern province of Binh Duong.

President Truong Tan Sang praised the importance of dyke projects while inspecting development in the Mekong Delta provinces of Tra Vinh and Soc Trang.

Fourteen signs banning illegal sand and gravel mining have been installed in 14 hotspots along the Gianh River in the central province of Quang Binh.