VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnam aims to eradicate rabies by 2020, reported a meeting in the northern province of Phu Tho on May 24, with representatives from 10 northern provinces prone to the disease taking part.

The Government of Vietnam always backs collaboration between the Vietnamese Ministry of Transport and Indian Ministry of Shipping, especially in maritime and inland waterways, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said.

A modern physical drama will be held in Hanoi on May 25 to mobilize people to comply with the "Law on prevention and control of tobacco harms".

The trial of robbers who committed eight gold robberies in the southern region has ended with three of the gang sentenced to death.

A massive undersea earthquake Friday in Russia's Far East prompted a tsunami warning and was felt in cities including Moscow far to the west, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.

While the government said Vietnam’s public debts are still at manageable levels, a NA deputy proposed the the assessment standards are clarified.

Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has confirmed that the bauxite project in the Central Highlands region will bear fruit in the long run.

Police in Binh Duong Province detained three people who caused a massive blackout to 22 provinces and cities in the south.

Howard Limbert, an expert of the British Cave Research Association said that his team had found traces of a collapsed cave in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Binh which beats the record of the world’s largest cave of Son Doong.

The National Assembly on May 24 approved the government’s nomination of Dinh Tien Dung as Finance Minister of Vietnam with 71.28% of votes in favour.

President Barack Obama laid out new guidelines for drone strikes and launched a fresh bid to close Guantanamo, warning that a "perpetual" US war on terror would be self-defeating.

Deputy PM Nguyen Thien Nhan has urged Asian countries to strengthen trade liberalisation cooperation and to work together on human resources development.

The State Audit of Vietnam disclosed various wrongdoings of the banking system last year, including the SBV's lax management over the interbank market.

The State Bank of Vietnam on May 23 signed with the Asian Development Bank two agreements on loans and non-refundable aid worth a total 249 million USD to help Vietnam improve water supply services and upgrade roads.

Police have confiscated the crane and reported on the driver that caused a huge blackout that affected the southern region on May 22.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has proposed General Auditor Dinh Tien Dung to replace predecessor Vuong Dinh Hue as Vietnam’s new Minister of Finance.

Prime Minister David Cameron convened an emergency meeting of his intelligence chiefs on Thursday after two Islamists hacked a soldier to death with meat cleavers on a south London street.

Street vendors in three small cities along the East-West Economic Corridor in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam will have greater access to a micro-finance project worth US$2.5 million in non-refundable aid from the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction.

Many practical activities have been held in many localities across the country to mark the 2,577th birthday of Lord Buddha which falls on the 15th day of the fourth lunar month.