VIETNAM TODAY

Although many people in HCM City appreciate the PM's pilot project including public bicycle, they still think bicycles are not a viable means for traveling in the city.

An annual blood donation festival in Hanoi on February 16 is expected to attract around 10,000 volunteer donors and bank a minimum of 7,000 units of blood.

Shops have been turning cheap white roses into blue ones by soaking them in chemicals to meet the high demand for Valentine's Day, bringing big profits on the occasion.

Authorities in Danang may sue the MNRE after it issued new regulations on hydropower discharge that would threaten the well being of nearly 1.7 million people.

Analysts are predicting that 2014 will be a more successful year for the Vietnamese real estate market, after the year began with an increase in the number of apartment transactions.

Vietnam will have the longest sea overpass, to be part of a 15-kilometre road project in Haiphong City within the next few years.

Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop will pay an official visit to Vietnam from February 17-19 at the invitation of Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh.

The U.S. Agency for International Cooperation has announced a package of US$ 800,000 to help Vietnam mitigate risks posed by newly-emerging epidemics by September 2015.

Thailand's Constitutional Court on Wednesday rejected a request by the country's main opposition party to annul a controversial election disrupted by anti-government protests.

Four sculptures of Vietnamese historical figures have been presented to the public as part of efforts to publicise them.

Foggy weather caused chaos at many airports nationwide as dozens of flights had to be delayed or cancelled during the busy post-Tet holiday period.

Flappy Bird developer Nguyen Ha Dong, who earned around VND 210 billion from the game, may have to pay around VND 10 billion in income taxes, experts said.

North and South Korean officials sat down to their highest level talks for years on Wednesday, seeking an upswing in ties despite a bitter row over looming South Korea-US military exercises

Transport Minister Dinh La Thang and his Singaporean counterpart Lui Tuck Yew have agreed to strengthen bilateral cooperation in the transport sector.

Vietnam’s private airline VietJetAir has signed a USD9-billion contract with Airbus to buy 100 aircraft.

A February 11 meeting in Can Tho City has announced the Mekong Delta province’s Can Tho International Airport will soon join three new domestic and four new international air routes.

The Ministry of Public Security’s draft regulation proposes that traffic police collect fines from violations has caused public uproar over its high probability of fostering endemic corruption.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said on February 11 that preservation of traditional music forms assumes greater importance as the country deepens its international integration.

A military aircraft carrying 78 people crashed in Algeria's mountainous northeast with just one survivor on Tuesday, in one of the country's deadliest air disasters, the defence ministry said.