VIETNAM TODAY

The PM has agreed to lower the current quota of 450 students for every 10,000 people to between 300 and 350 students by 2020.

A report from the National Hospital of Endocrinology showed that the country is seeing an increase in the number of people with diabetes.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak dissolved parliament Wednesday in preparation for a general election seen as the toughest challenge yet for the ruling coalition after 56 years in power.

The People's Committee of the central province of Quang Binh has approved an experimental adventure tour to Son Doong Cave suggested by Howard Limbert, expert of the British Cave Research Association.

The HSBC has forecast in a newly-issued report that Vietnam is expected to achieve a 5.5% growth rate of GDP in 2013.

Countries of the ASEAN and China have pledged to further promote their strategic partnership and comprehensive cooperation in line with the principles of mutual understanding and respect as well as friendly neighbourliness.

Foods prices in Hanoi are increasing due to higher transport fees following the petrol price hike on March 28.

People in southern central and south-eastern regions have been struggling to adapt to the scorching drought.

The trial in the land revocation case involving a violent clash between farmers and authorities has commenced in Haiphong City.

North Korea has delayed the entry of South Koreans to a joint industrial complex in a rare move amid high tensions on the Korean peninsula.

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development yesterday ordered a stricter ban on the transport and trade of poultry through border gates.

Leading Vietnamese player Nguyen Tien Minh has been confirmed as the second seed at the Yonex Australian Badminton Open, only preceded by Malaysian World No.1 Lee Chong Wei.

The second ASEAN-EU Public Dialogue Forum kicked off in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 2.

Vietnam’s approximately 300,000 teen abortion cases constitutes the highest adolescent abortion rate in Southeast Asia and the fifth highest in the world.

At least seven people were killed and nine injured Tuesday when a bus plunged off a bridge overlooking one of Rio's main access roads, firefighters said.

Alan Phan, a famous Overseas Vietnamese fund manager, has answered criticism over his opinions that the Vietnamese real estate market should be left to fall.

A project to manage industrial pollution in the basins of Dong Nai, Nhue and Day rivers was launched in Hanoi on April 2.

Doctors at the National Hospital of Pediatrics in Hanoi say that an emaciated three-year-old boy hospitalized earlier this month has tested positive for HIV and is now suffering from full-blown AIDS.

Construction of the Tan Nam-Mon Chay bridge over the Vam Co Dong river in Tay Ninh Province began on April 2 in a joint effort to make it easier for people living along the border between Vietnam and Cambodia