VIETNAM TODAY

March 3 witnessed a monumental breakthrough for the Vietnamese medical profession when doctors at 103 Hospital successfully carried out the first kidney-pancreas transplant operation.

National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung has highlighted the official establishment of the Vietnam-Indonesia strategic partnership in 2013 represents a significant landmark in the constant development of bilateral ties over the past 60 years.

New polices on cash payment, exemption of export and import duty on raw material gold, preferential lending interest rate are scheduled to come into effect in March, 2014.

Asian stocks tumbled Monday as tensions over Russia's military advance into Ukraine and the impact of possible sanctions by Western governments intensified.

Ten teams are competing at the 2014 National Futsal Football Championship which officially kicked off at HCM City’s Thai Son Nam stadium on March 2.

Harrowing historical drama 12 Years a Slave was crowned best picture Oscar on Sunday (US Time), while 3D space thriller Gravity was the top prize winner at the 86th Academy Awards with seven.

Doctors at the Vietnam-Germany Hospital in Hanoi successfully reattached the severed nose of a 37-year-old patient in a 13-hour long surgery.

Vietnam vehemently condemns the terrorist attack at Kunming Railway Station in China’s Yunnan province on March 1.

US Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Kiev this week in a show of support for the embattled leadership, as Washington and its allies slammed Moscow for violating Ukraine's sovereignty.

The northern Malaysian state of Penang has officially opened the longest bridge in Southeast Asia to traffic.

Gas prices have been cut by VND31,000 (USD1.46) per 12-kilo canister beginning March 1, a company official said.

Vietnam ranks 41st on the list of the most popular countries in the world to visit, according to the www.movehub.com - a website frequented by people who want to travel abroad.

Vietnamese high school students will have to take four subjects in order to graduate, a decision which some say will strike a death blow to the subject of history.

Online auctions provide an effective way of improving the transparency of transactions and preventing corruption, Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Dao Quang Thu has stated.

Deputy Minister of Construction has had to explain circular 16, which has been blamed for cheating home-buyers.

The Hung Yen provincial People’s Committee on March 1 declared the bird flu epidemic in Dai Dong commune, Van Lam district.

Thai anti-government protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban has declared that the operation to paralyse Bangkok, which began on January 13, will end on March 3.

The first two months of the year saw 4,834 traffic accidents, killing 1,818 people and leaving another 4,741 injured.

Renowned US business magazine Forbes has announced the list of the year’s top 50 businesswomen in Asia, including three Vietnamese.