VIETNAM TODAY

The heart-shaped Phu Quoc island of Vietnam ranked third in the list of best winter trips 2014, according to the U.S.-based National Geographic Traveler magazine.

The Hanoi Market Surveillance Agency's market watch team No 1 yesterday confiscated over 410 bottles of foreign wine of "Ballantine" and "Chivas" brands in Dong Da District, Hanoi.

Days away from giving birth and living apart from her family, 16-year-old Ying is one of a growing number of Thai teenagers to fall pregnant every year in a country where sex education is focused on the married.

The first high-end, large-scale exhibition featuring Japanese history, culture and the long-term trading relations between Japan and Vietnam has opened in downtown Hanoi.

France and Vietnam have agreed to cooperate in the training of peace-keeping forces within the framework of United Nations activities, Lieutenant Colonel Nadia-Piercy has said.

Scientists from Hanoi National University have announced the initial results of a scientific study of Vietnamese genes (also known as genomes) and how they compare with other races of the world.

Thousands of people fled rising floods and an approaching storm in a fresh round of evacuations in the Philippines, officials said Friday as the death toll from a week of foul weather rose to 37.

The US Agency for International Development and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on January 16 launched a US$26 million climate change project in Nam Dinh province.

Senior officials of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) met in Bagan, Myanmar on January 16, one day ahead the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat to seek to hasten the building of an ASEAN Community by 2015.

Quang Ninh Province will ban local bear farms from bile extraction starting in 2014, after strong condemnation from activists.

Saint Petersburg University will host a seminar on January 18 to examine issues relating to Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) Archipelago.

Hanoi police's investigative agency decided to cease their investigation into a case of a doctor who dumped a woman's body into the Red River after she died at his beauty salon.

Vietnam plans to cautiously expand credit growth to 12-14 per cent in a bid to facilitate companies, boost the national economic revival and tackle inflation.

The People’s Committee of the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on January 16 decided to spend 46 billion VND (2.162 million USD) from the State and locality’s budget to help its localities overcome damage caused by the 2013 floods.

Some 2,000 overseas Vietnamese throughout the world will return to the home country for “Xuan Que Huong” (Spring in the Homeland) – an annual event to usher in the Lunar New Year at Thang Long imperial citadel in Hanoi

The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) plans to increase its investment in the national women’s football squad to improve their performance at the 2014 Asia finals.

All Megastar cinemas have been renamed CGV as of Wednesday, January 15, announced the CJ CGV Group of South Korea, the new manager of Vietnam's biggest cinema chain.

A survey from a popular job search site, CareerBuilder, has shown that most of new graduates in Vietnam expect to get early promotions after they get a job.

From March 1, State-owned enterprises will have to switch to non-cash payments as stipulated by a recent Government decree.