VIETNAM TODAY

An incident at a HCM City school in which many students tore up their history lessons after learning that it would not be on their final exams has stirred controversy.

Doctors from the Hanoi-based Bach Mai Hospital conducted the country's first successful endoscopic surgery on a man with mitral valve regurgitation.

Blue-green algae, a type of bacteria, has been detected for the first time in Tuyen Lam Lake, an attraction in Da Lat, a popular tourism destination in the Central Highlands, raising worries of water contamination.

The Ministry of Construction has issued a draft decree on the levels of fines for unlicensed construction work.

A four-year-old boy died from avian flu strain H5N1 in southern Dong Thap province, authorities confirmed on April 9, saying that measures were being taken to prevent the virus from spreading further.

The UN warned on Wednesday that austerity measures are hitting children hard, as it published a ranking of kids' well-being in rich countries topped by northern European countries and showing Britain climbing out of the bottom tier.

Vietnamese Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Tuan Anh and French Minister of Foreign Trade Nicole Bricq cut the red ribbon inaugurating the France Year in Vietnam at a ceremony in Hanoi.

Employees across Vietnam would have two long holidays to mark the Liberation Day, May Day and to commemorate the Hung Kings.

A large number of people in Hanoi still face bureaucratic measures when working with local state agencies, a recent survey showed.

The First Meeting of the Special Experts Working Group on the ASEAN Regional Standards for Organic Agriculture and the 9th Meeting of the Task Force on ASEAN Standards for Horticultural Produce and Other Food Crops has opened in Brunei.

Thua Thien-Hue province’s Phu Loc district will host the international Laguna Triathlon on April 14.

Carnival, the world's largest cruise group, unveiled its Asian expansion plans on Tuesday, predicting the regional market for leisure voyages will grow dramatically within the decade.

Local authorities in some mountainous districts in Binh Dinh Province are finding it hard to stop rising suicide rate among the locals.

A cooperation agreement in hi-tech engineer training was signed in HCM City by France’s Dasault Systèmes Group, the French Education Ministry and the University of Science and Technology of Hanoi.

A month-long campaign was launched in the southern province of Dong Nai on April 9 to raise public awareness of food hygiene and safety.

North Korea said Tuesday the Korean peninsula was headed for "thermo-nuclear" war and advised foreigners in South Korea to consider evacuation, in the latest in a series of apocalyptic threats.

Eighteen riders from Australia, England, New Zealand and the US have taken off on the third edition of Rally Indochina, an exclusive group of committed bikers riding for charity purposes.

An 11 year-old Vietnamese prodigy has been criticised for boastfulness by fellow Facebook users.

A man shot dead 13 people, including a baby, as he went on a rampage in a village outside the Serbian capital Belgrade, television and officials said on Tuesday.