VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnamese two representatives at the 2013 Asian Super Model Contest in Nanning (China) Nguyen Dieu Linh and Hoang Thu, have received enthusiastic applause from spectators.

China handed down a suspended death sentence on a former railways minister for corruption on Monday, state media said, a case seen as a test of President Xi Jinping’s resolve to crack down on pervasive graft.

Cat Tien National Park has just taken over 10,000 hectares of forests from a private firm, one official has said.

Fishermen in Hai Cang ward, Quy Nhon city in the central coastal province of Binh Dinh found their fish cages covered with a thick layer of oil and dead fish floating on the water on July 7.

Around one third of Vietnamese children are shorter than the average according to a recent conference.

The Vietnamese and Laos Prime Ministers have appreciated the completion of the upgrade and increase of Vietnam-Laos field border markers.

Vietnamese contestants bagged seven vocational certificates of excellence in the week-long 42nd Worldskills Competition, which commenced on July 2 in Leipzig, Germany.

Syria's rebel prime minister Ghassan Hitto announced his resignation on Monday, nearly four months after his appointment and having failed to form a government.

Two people were found dead and one is still missing following a fight between farmers over clam farming areas in Thanh Hoa Province on July 7.

Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Tran Anh Tuan vowed to fire all state officials who slack off during working hours.

Hanoi's Department of Health has urged its hospitals to keep improving service quality and reducing administrative procedures to better serve patients at a time when healthcare fees are set to rise by 100 per cent.

Local authorities in the Central Highland city of Da Lat approved a plan to build six new railway routes from city centre to several tourism sites by 2020, according to Truong Huu Hiep, director of the Lam Dong provincial

A two-storey hotel collapsed in the southern Indian city of Secunderabad, killing five restaurant workers and injuring 15 others, a local police official said.

Damming the mainstream of the lower Mekong River will represent a significant new threat to the survival of the Mekong giant catfish, one of the world's largest and rarest freshwater fishes, according to a new study commissioned by the

A ceremony was held in Khe Sanh town, Huong Hoa district in the central province of Quang Tri on July 7 to mark the 45 th anniversary of the Khe Sanh victory.

Vietnamese exporters should learn well the new European Union rules relating to the bloc's Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) in order to extract maximum advantage, experts said at a seminar held in HCM City yesterday.

Fires continued burning more than 24 hours after several train cars carrying crude oil derailed in eastern Quebec on Saturday, igniting explosions that destroyed a town’s centre and left at least five people dead.

The Islamic Cham people in the central province of Binh Thuan officially launched a month-long festival to welcome their Ramuwan (New Year) festival on July 7.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan has reaffirmed that the Communist Party, State, Government and people of Vietnam will always pay tribute to the contribution and sacrifices made by war veterans, martyrs and those who struggled for national independence