VIETNAM TODAY

The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines will add more flights to its schedule to meet the increasing demand of passengers over the forthcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday, the most important event of most of Vietnamese.

Fitch Ratings has affirmed Vietnam’s long-term foreign-and local-currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at B+ following optimistic economic performance.

State President Truong Tan Sang praised overseas Vietnamese throughout the world for their significant contributions to socio-economic development.

Iran on Thursday stepped up attempts to normalise its relations with the West with a Davos charm offensive that was immediately attacked by Israel as a confidence trick.

Mindshare globally recognized 15 January as Mindshare Day and celebrated it by announcing its refreshed global positioning: original thinking driven by speed, provocation and teamwork.

CleverAds has announced that it is going to be one of Facebook’s first authorized resellers for Facebook in Vietnam.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung met with World Bank Country Director Victoria Kwakwa on January 23 in Hanoi to compare notes on ways of expanding Vietnam’s cooperation with the international institution.

President Truong Tan Sang has affirmed that Vietnam always supports Sri Lanka in its national development and reconciliation.

Calligraphers offering Chinese, nom (old Vietnamese characters based on Chinese characters) and Vietnamese letters to people during the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday will be relocated to inside the Van Mieu Historic Relic, near the Van lake, according to

The FDI sector attracted nearly 22 billion USD and achieved a trade surplus of nearly 13.9 billion USD, significantly contributing to the development of Vietnam’s economy in 2013. However, it would have contributed more if shortcomings in FDI attraction

A chung cake making village in Hanoi is facing difficulties as many households in the village have not yet received a food safety certificate.

Authorities of the central province of Quang Ngai have handed over to the provincial museum and a salvage company nearly 5,000 antiquities retrieved from a 600-year-old sunken ship last year.

A woman has been killed and 12 other people are missing after torrential rains triggered a landslide that buried sleeping villagers on Indonesia's main Java island, an official said Thursday.

As Tet shopping picks up, several clothing stores in Hanoi have launched sales to reel in customers, who might be better served shopping at a local market.

Over 100 volunteers have come to river banks in Hanoi to prevent people from throwing plastic bags into river while releasing carp on the day of the Kitchen Gods.

The Vietnamese people believe the Kitchen Gods (Ong Tao) begins his journey to the Heavenly Palace on the 23rd day of the last lunar month that falls on January 23 this year.

A gardener in Hanoi has successfully grafted a tree that yields seven kinds of fruits, most of which are typically used on offering trays.

Ukrainian police on Wednesday stormed protesters' barricades in Kiev amid violent clashes that left five activists dead, the first fatalities in two months of anti-government protests.

Teenage swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh Vien has been voted Vietnam's top athlete in 2013.