VIETNAM TODAY

PetroVietnam has signed a production-sharing contract for Block 42 on the continental shelf waters of Vietnam with a consortium of contractors including PetroVietnam Exploration and Production Corporation and the Russia-Vietnam oil and gas joint venture, Vietsovpetro.

Vietnamese-American fashion designer Chloe Dao, winner of television reality show Project Runway USA in 2005, will be one of five judges for the reality show Project Runway Vietnam.

The export price of Vietnamese tra fish bound for the US has risen by 0.3-0.4 USD per kilo, 10 percent higher than in mid-March.

The establishment of an assets management company will be delayed due to the limited options in dealing with bad debts.

North Korea announced Saturday that it had entered a "state of war" with South Korea and would deal with every inter-Korean issue accordingly.

Top musicians from the ASEAN countries, art groups and the Hanoi community around will gather at a much-anticipated music festival on May 11.

Hong Kong Dragon Airlines Limited (Dragonair) has launched a direct air route between Danang and Hong Kong.

Private kindergartens have mushroomed in the new urban areas in Hanoi, but many offer low-quality services.

A gas blast in a northeast China coal mine killed 28 people, authorities said on Saturday, according to state media, the latest incident to damage the industry's notoriously poor safety record.

The Ministry of Labour, War Invalid and Social Affairs (MoLISA) and the UNICEF in Vietnam jointly held a conference in Hanoi discussing the root cause behind child abandonment in Vietnam.

Students in Vietnam are increasingly opting for online university entrance exam training courses, according to education experts.

Vietnam will take part in the ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN People Forum 2013 which is slated for April 6-8 in Brunei.

HCM City has selected five sectors which will be given preferential loans, including agriculture, export, and support industries.

A conference entitled “Vietnam-Japan Cooperation for Africa Development” was held on March 29 in Hanoi to intensify the two countries’ support for the continent.

The central city officially inaugurated two new bridges over the Han River today – the Rong (Dragon) Bridge and Tran Thi Ly Bridge – to mark the 38th anniversary of the city's Liberation Day.

The Vietnam Football Federation has selected caretaker coach Hoang Van Phuc to train the national squad despite the team’s recent defeats at the 2015 Asian Cup qualifiers.

A hail storm with stones of up to 10 centimetres ravaged villages in Lao Cai Province, causing damage to thousands of households.

Many businesses have successfully overcome challenges to secure their foothold in the global market after 54,000 others were dissolved under the negative impact of the global economic crisis in 2012.

Operation Smile Vietnam will extend their free surgery program to An Giang province from April 8-12 to offer life-changing surgeries to children suffering from cleft lips and cleft palates.