VIETNAM TODAY

Brazil's northern Amazonia state ruled Wednesday that work could resume fully at the World Cup stadium in Manaus where a worker fell to his death over the weekend, media reports said.

The Government chief called upon more drastic measures to be taken to speed up the restructuring in the banking system.

The European Union (EU) has agreed to grant an additional 114 million euro to Vietnam’s healthcare sector until 2017.

The West's policies on Iran and Syria are a "dangerous gamble" and Saudi Arabia is prepared to act on its own to safeguard security in the region, a top Saudi diplomat said.

A 75-year-old businessman from Vung Tau City spent USD175,000 on a replica of a royal bed from England for display at his resort.

Vietnam is seeing an increasing trend of banks changing their brand identity and/or managers to bolster efficiency.

A HCM City high-school student has won a quiz and essay contest about Canada organised by that country's embassy in Hanoi.

The owner of a private kindergarten in HCM City, along with one member of her staff, have just been charged with child abuse.

Green buildings are still rare in Vietnam though the country is among the 10 most vulnerable in the world to climate change and sea level rise.

A new website for Muslim travellers which includes a global directory of halal restaurants and dedicated city guides launched Wednesday in a bid to capitalise on the growing number of Islamic tourists.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has urged the diplomatic sector to work harder to expand the market for the country's exports.

For almost two years, local residents in Hue have complained about the night market set up on the city's foot street that runs along the poetic Huong, or Perfume River.

Doctors from Hanoi-based Vietnam-Germany and Vietnam-France hospitals have saved an American woman from acute pulmonary embolism – a fatal disease – during her recent tour of Vietnam.

Even though the Ministry of Education and Training has agreed to let universities hold their own entrance exams next year, many universities expressed reluctance.

The World Bank said Tuesday it had raised a record $52 billion in fresh aid for its fund for helping the world's poorest people.

Vietnam’s national under-23 football team had to say goodbye to the ongoing 27th Southeast Asia Games (SEA Games 27) in Myanmar, after losing to Malaysia 2-1 in the qualification round.

Dozens of households among the benefactors of a project to build ecological villages in sandy areas in Quang Tri Province have abandoned their houses.

Sprinter Vu Thi Huong took a gold medal for Vietnam in the women’s 100m in Myanmar on December 17 after a prolonged injury and a recent ovarian cyst surgery.

The Asian Records Organisation (ARO) has included ten more Vietnamese culinary specialties in its latest Asian Records listings.