VIETNAM TODAY

Ukraine has started a campaign for snap presidential elections on May 25, as the location of the country's fugitive president remains unknown.

High-level executives from 33 leading US companies, who are sanguine on prospects for doing business in Vietnam, attended the annual US-ASEAN Business Council (USABC) in Hanoi on February 24.

A Chinese man in a smoggy northern city has become the first person in the country to sue the government for failing to curb air pollution, a state-run newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Phan Hai Bang, an art lecturer at Hue University of Art, has created a special type of bamboo paper that he hopes can boost the image of local crafts.

The chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee, Nguyen The Thao, has criticised the sluggish construction of Nhon-Hanoi Station metro route.

Renowned Vietnamese designer Minh Hanh met with representatives from the Italian-based Gattinoni fashion company in Rome on February 24, discussing the possibility of cooperation between the two countries.

The Government Inspectorate said management agencies are failing to define databases and information about transfer pricing of foreign-invested enterprises in Vietnam.

Nearly 12,000 babies in Vietnam die each year during childbirth or within the first day of life, according to a new report Save the Children released today.

An Australian man died after falling from the 20th floor of Sheraton Hotel in HCM City on February 24.

US President Barack Obama on February 24 approved a civilian nuclear deal with Vietnam, paving the way for the US to sell its reactors to this Southeast Asian nation.

A local education expert said training in penmanship and arithmetic memorisation should be dropped from primary school education because it lacks real educational value.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will travel to India later this week as Tehran seeks to open a "new chapter" in relations with New Delhi, media reported Monday.

A centre for steam treatments, detoxification and rehabilitation has recently opened in Thanh Khe district, Da Nang city. This charitable humanitarian project will care for and detoxify dioxin/Agent Orange (AO) effected people in the city and in the central region.

Coming to Vietnam simply because of a funny saying, Georgi Stoilkov doesn’t expect that he would get work in Hanoi repairing bicycles, but he is now considering staying here for a long time.

The Ministry of Finance is considering a special consumption tax on soft drinks for their potential health risks.

Nearly 100 civil organisations and 20 poor communities in 23 cities and provinces will benefit from a project strengthening the role of Vietnamese non-governmental organisations in climate change communications and policy advocacy.

Two giant pandas, on loan from China for the next 15 years, have received a red carpet welcome in Belgium where they were greeted by the Prime Minister.

Vietnam’s viewpoint on the recognition, respect, protection and guarantee of human rights as well as the fundamental rights and obligations of citizens has been firmly clarified in the amended Constitution, which was passed by almost all of legislators in

The teacher who slapped two high school students in Binh Dinh Province was dismissed after a video of the incident and the ensuing scuffle surfaced.