VIETNAM TODAY

Of the estimated 2.34 million annual work-related deaths, the vast majority are due to work-related diseases.

Asia Foundation has presented scholarships to 70 poor female students in the southern province of An Giang.

Consuming more than 5.1 billion packets of instant noodles in 2012 earned the country fourth place in the global instant noodle consumption rankings.

A traditional ceremony commemorating sailors of Hoang Sa (Paracel) Flotilla, took place in An Vinh communal temple, Ly Son island district, central Quang Ngai province on April 28.

The owner of a factory building that collapsed in Bangladesh killing hundreds of garment workers was arrested on Sunday trying to flee to India, police said, as fears grew that the death toll could rise sharply with as many

A trade, tourism and food fair opened in Ha Long city in the northern coastal province of Quang Ninh on April 26 as part of the 2013 Ha Long Carnival.

Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam’s legislators in charge of external relations gathered in Cambodia’s northeastern province of Mondulkiri to discuss the role of national assemblies in supporting the Development Triangle Area.

Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely discussed jihad with his mother, officials said Saturday, days after the U.S. government finally received details about the call.

The police has prosecuted leaders of a famous Vietnamese company for providing online gaming services and products without obtaining licences.

A trade-tourism-food fair was inaugurated on April 26 in Ha Long city in Quang Ninh province as part of the Ha Long Carnival which officially opens on April 27.

Vietnam will adopt every suitable and necessary peaceful measure to defend sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdiction as well as its legal and legitimate national interests in the East Sea.

Gunmen killed five army intelligence soldiers in two attacks west of Baghdad while others shot dead five anti-Qaeda militiamen north of the Iraqi capital on Saturday, police and doctors said.

The first farm producing the famed weasel coffee in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong has opened its door for visitors to see the entire process of making the coffee with the help of domesticated animals.

An energy group led by the US-based Chevron company will help to upgrade schools and provide scholarships for poor students in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta Region.

Hanoi Mosaic tiled wall that runs along the dyke road has begun to deteriorate, despite the city’s efforts.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung has asked ministries, branches and localities to create favourable conditions to attract investment, especially foreign investment and investment in high-tech projects.

President Truong Tan Sang has presented the title “Hero of the People’s Armed Forces” to a collective of revolutionaries who were once detained in the offshore Con Dao Prison.

Bangladeshi police said Saturday they had arrested two owners of garment factories based at the eight-storey building that collapsed outside the capital as the death toll rose to at least 323.

The recent boom of driver training services in HCM City with promises that all students would receive licences has stirred up public concern over the training quality.