VIETNAM TODAY

Russia's defence ministry plans to deploy in 2017 a sophisticated new air missile defence system that can hit targets in space, a senior ministry source told Russian news agencies on Friday.

A pharmacist at the Binh Phuoc Province Department of Health has been threatened with sacking after she denounced the leader for taking bribes.

The PM has agreed with a plan to realize the Vietnam-Cambodia agreement on fighting human trafficking and protecting trafficking victims.

Vietnam has hit the airwaves in a new season of BBC programmes called Vietnam Direct, which showcases the country's transition into a dynamic dragon economy within Asia.

Ten Chinese "doctors", who were working illegally in Vietnam, tried to flee when HCM City police visited the Apollo Clinic.

The United States is still seeking an "international coalition" in response to Syria's alleged use of chemical weapons, despite a vote against military action by British MPs, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Friday.

The Six Tones, a Vietnamese-Swedish experimental music ensemble, will launch its double album “Signal in Noise” in Hanoi on August 30.

More than 900 businesses have registered to participate in the annual sales promotion month in Ho Chi Minh City next month, 10 percent more than last year.

Malaysian King Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah and his wife will pay a State visit to Vietnam from September 5-8 at the invitation of President Truong Tan Sang.

A Special Foreign Ministers’ Meeting took place in Beijing on August 29 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the strategic partnership between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and China.

Seventeen-year-old Indian student Appu Sharma was going to apply to a US university to study economics but with the rupee on the ropes, he's set his sights closer to home.

Mexican Labor Party Chief Alberto Anaya Gutierrez, the incumbent President of the Mexico-Vietnam Parliamentary Friendship Group, has presented 50 wheelchairs to the Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin on August 28.

As many as 15,446 domestic and foreign prisoners nationwide will be released on August 30 in compliance with the President’s amnesty decision on the occasion of the upcoming National Day (Sept. 2).

Students and teachers in remote areas will get more support from the government in the new school year beginning September 1.

A conference evaluating labour export policies in relation with gender and migration opened in Ho Chi Minh City on August 28.

France has sent one of its latest anti-air warfare frigates to the eastern Mediterranean, a French magazine reported on Thursday, while Russian media said that Moscow has despatched two warships to the same area, which is met by Syria’s

A high-level discussion will be held on September 5 at the Daewoo Hotel in Hanoi concerning Japan’s role in Vietnam’s industrialisation process.

Four public interest companies accused of underpaying employees will be further investigated.

Nine Vietnamese together with nearly 40 youths from other nine ASEAN member countries are gathering in Singapore to participate in the ASEAN Youth Camp 2013.