VIETNAM TODAY

Intellectual property in the global trade environment and its importance to local businesses were discussed at a seminar in HCM City on May 28.

A Vietnamese woman, who was trafficked into China, has been rescued by Baise City police in the southern Chinese province of Guangxi, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

The MoC is considering the implementation of property insurance contracts so customers would be compensated if investors go bankrupt.

North Korea said Tuesday it would allow South Korean businessmen to visit their plants in a shuttered joint economic zone, but declined Seoul's offer of official working-level talks on the complex.

The Ministry of Health needs more time to ease the heavy overload at centrally-run hospitals despite recent improvements, says Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien.

A newborn boy has been rescued from a sewage pipe in a Chinese apartment building after being flushed down a toilet.

While HCM City boasts a high rate of working age population at 53%, overpopulation has resulted in high rate of unemployment.

An Action Month for Children has been launched in Hanoi, aiming to create equal development opportunities for poor and ethnic minority children.

A report from the NA's Economic Committee on public debt has raised grave concerns over state-owned enterprises showing poor business performance.

The EU on Tuesday lifted an arms embargo on the Syrian opposition, but said it had no immediate plans to deliver military equipment to the forces locked in a bloody civil war with the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

Vietnam’s policy on diversified external relations has received strong support from other countries in Southeast Asia.

In the first five months of 2013, 16 more state-own enterprises have been re-organised under a project to re-arrange and renovate SOEs for the 2011-2015 period.

Foreign Affairs Minister Pham Binh Minh expressed his pleasure at the growing co-operation between Vietnam and Thailand at a reception for Thai Permanent Secretary for Foreign Affairs Sihasak Phuangketkeow in Hanoi yesterday.

The fifth European-Vietnamese Documentary Film Festival will take place in Hanoi from June 5-14 and Ho Chi Minh City from June 10-29.

Cheap, poor quality travel companies are affecting the country’s tourism image.

The Angolan Ambassador to Vietnam said that his country is willing to sign a labour co-operation agreement with Vietnam.

Authorities in Chile and Argentina on Monday issued a red alert and ordered the evacuation of 3,000 people living near the Copahue volcano near their common border, saying an eruption could be imminent.

The government is considering altering the ban on crackers and allow the use of ‘quiet’ fireworks next Tet holiday, an offical said.

A Foreign Ministry representative has opposed Chinese ships’ ramming of a Vietnamese fishing from Quang Ngai province.