VIETNAM TODAY

Workers at a S.Korean-financed factory in Tien Giang have denounced the firm’s managers for beating some of their fellow workers.

The European Space company Astrium on September 4 handed over the VNREDSat 1 controlling system to the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology.

A man who texted police in China to donate his body and organs to science before hanging himself was denied his final wish because he had not applied in advance, official media said Wednesday.

A whale weighing nearly three tonnes and is 8 metres in length, has been saved in the northern province of Quang Ninh.

Individual landlords for foreign renters in Hanoi are facing harsh competition against a rising numbers of real estate corporations.

Reigning vertical running world champion Thomas Dold will return to Vietnam to participate in the second edition of the Hanoi Vertical Run at the country's tallest building, Landmark 72.

The national flag carrier of Vietnam will launch a ticket sales programme called “Welcoming International Travel Expo 2013” with preferential prices.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has estimated Vietnam’s eight-month export earnings at US$84.82 billion, representing an annual increase of 14.7 percent.

In HCM City, a million trees have been planted on an area of 600ha in all 24 districts as part of a programme to increase the green cover.

Australian election frontrunner Tony Abbott Wednesday said Asia will be his top foreign policy priority if he wins office as the influential Fairfax Media turned on incumbent Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

Denmark opened a new Visa Application Centre in Ho Chi Minh City on September 3 in an effort to promote exchanges with Vietnam, according to a press release.

Social work is still quite new in Vietnam, therefore, many students in this department are worried about finding a job after the graduation.

Vietnam has set the goal of developing six sea-based tourism destinations up to international scale by 2020 under a project recently adopted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Timor-Leste Prime Minister Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão arrived in Hanoi on September 3 for an official visit to Vietnam at the invitation of his counterpart Nguyen Tan Dung.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told a French newspaper Monday that military intervention from France and the United States could set off a “powder keg” and “regional war”, while denying his forces had used chemical weapons.

State President Truong Tan Sang has confirmed that the Party and State pay special attention to education and training, considering it top national priority.

A tremor rocked the Bac Tra My district of Quang Nam province and Song Tranh 2 hydro-power plants on Tuesday, according to Tran Anh Tuan, Deputy Chairman of the district's People's Committee.

HCM City authorities have found eight more public-service companies in the city who are violating employee's salary payment regulations.