VIETNAM TODAY

The proposed ban of cyclos on the city streets of Hanoi is a denial of a tradition and part of a culture that has existed for many years, said one tourism expert.

The U Minh Thuong National Park in the southern province of Kien Giang has been given "heritage" recognition.

Two Vietnamese Grand Masters Le Quang Liem and Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son on August 12 defeated their rivals to have every chance of entering the second round of the 2013 SportAccord World Mind Games.

The green business exhibition held in September will bring Europe’s most advanced green technology to Vietnam.

President Barack Obama on Monday ordered Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to create a special committee charged with reviewing America’s high-tech spying programs.

As many as 329 delegates from 10 ASEAN countries and Japan will attend The Ship for Southeast Asian Youth Programme due to take place in Ho Chi Minh City from November 14-17.

An eccentric Beijing resident has built a huge house among what looks like a pile of rocks dotted with trees on top of a 26-storey apartment block in the capital, reports said Monday.

The International Centre for Inter-disciplinary Science and Education (ICISE) was officially inaugurated in Quy Nhon city, the central province of Binh Dinh on August 12.

The 13 th National Assembly Standing Committee convenes its 20 th meeting in Hanoi on August 12 to discuss a range of draft laws and several ordinances and decrees.

Free Wheelchair Mission and Give It Back to Kids have donated 550 wheelchairs to people with disabilities in six cities and provinces across the country.

A Korean language teaching programme will be broadcast on VTV2 channel of Vietnam Television starting from August 12, as a follow-up of the first part aired last year.

India launched its first indigenously-built aircraft carrier on Monday, a landmark moment in the $5 billion project that seeks to project the country's power and check the rising influence of China.

A father and son who lived in the forest for nearly 40 years created special handmade tools and clothes to fill their basic needs.

The Ministry of Finance has just asked relevant agencies to curb the soaring prices of essential goods and services.

Craft and art shows including an exhibition by disabled Japanese photographers will open the annual Hoi An-Japan Cultural Festival on August 23.

Leading experts have offered opinions on the construction of a Thai-invested petrochemical complex project in the central province of Binh Dinh.

Four American Nobel laureates arrived in central Binh Dinh Province yesterday to attend the 9th "Meeting Vietnam" event – a scientific symposium which starts today.

Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange will proceed with their fourth lawsuit against US chemical companies that produced the toxic defoliant sprayed by US forces during the American War in Vietnam .

Twenty-three people were missing Monday as Typhoon Utor struck the Philippines, with the strongest storm of the year.