VIETNAM TODAY

Several people in HCM City have found themselves victims of criminal extortion when leasing their cars to beginner drivers.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung will highlight Vietnam’s foreign policy of peace, independence, self-control, diversification and multilateralisation of international relations at the upcoming 12th Shangri La Dialogue in Singapore.

The Warburg Pincus Consortium has just spent USD 200 million to buy a 20% share in Vingroup's Vincom Retail, a leading real estate developer in Vietnam.

The Vietnam People’s Army rescue team will take part in a military exercise on rescue work and relief aid in Brunei this June.

Vietnamese people spend around USD3 billion on beer annually, topping Southeast Asia and standing third in Asia.

A host of proposals aimed at elevating bilateral trade and investment links between Vietnam and the EU have been presented at the Vietnam-EU Business Forum in Ho Chi Minh City on May 29.

Violence in Iraq killed 45 people, after evening attacks raised an earlier toll, the latest in a spate of unrest sparking concerns the country could be sliding back to all-out sectarian war.

Doctors form the HCM City-based Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion have successfully conducted the country’s first ever haploidentical stem cell transplant procedure.

Eight female entrepreneurs of Vietnam have just been presented the Mekong Women's Entrepreneurship Challenge Awards by the Vietnam Women Entrepreneurs Council under the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

The fall of a newborn baby into a toilet pipe in China was accidental and his mother will not be prosecuted, local officials said Wednesday, adding the boy is healthy.

Senior Lieutenant General and Deputy Minister of Defence Nguyen Chi Vinh received Acting US Assistant Secretary of State, Joseph Y. Yun, who is in Hanoi for the Vietnam-US Dialogue on the Asia Pacific region.

A170-kilogram tiger illegally kept by a family in Nghe An Province has just been transferred to a rescue centre in Hanoi.

The Hanoi People’s Committee has just approved changing the first commercial housing project into the social housing.

The Myanmar Government and the Kachin Independence Organisation has resumed peace talks in Myitkyina, the capital of Myanmar 's northernmost state of Kachin.

Vietnamese representative Nguyen Truong Son won the Best in Color award on May 27 at the World Style Contest, which was held at the Les Folies Bergere theatre in Paris as part of the 2013 Davines Worldwide Hair Tour.

The Vietnam Book of Records has reported that two more Vietnamese records have been recognised as Asian records.

The Gia Lai provincial People’s Court on May 28 opened a mobile trial for eight defendants, who were earlier prosecuted for “sabotaging the policy on solidarity” in accordance with Article 87 of the Criminal Code.

The European Union on Tuesday lifted an arms embargo on the Syrian opposition, in a move that drew rebuke from Moscow even if there were no immediate plans to deliver military equipment to the forces locked in a bloody

Many young couples in Hanoi are registering to hold their weddings at pagodas instead of at hotels or restaurants.