VIETNAM TODAY

Authorities in Spain are investigating FC Barcelona's Lionel Messi and his father over suspicions they used offshore havens to avoid paying some €4 million in taxes on income from some of the star footballer's endorsement deals.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat proposed measures to remove obstacles in agricultural production during the National Assembly hearing on June 12.

The Ministry of Transport has held an urgent meeting following a number of serious accidents.

The dam of a hydro electric power plant in Gia Lai province burst on June 12, washing away 10 local people of a rice field downstream.

Nguyen Thuy Tien and 10 other students from developing countries have received the World Deaf Leadership Scholarship from the US Gallaudet University.

The artwork “My Hanoi city” by Vietnamese artist Tran Tuan was ranked Third in the online art competition “Bright light Big city” by London’s prestigious Saatchi Gallery in May 2013.

The world's oldest person and the oldest man ever to have lived has died of natural causes aged 116 years, media reported on Wednesday.

Up to 17.3% of domestic helps in Hanoi and HCM City are aged below 18, according to a research conducted by the MoLISA.

Twenty four best proposals to minimise corruption were commended today under the Vietnam Anti-Corruption Initiative Program 2013.

Around 500 delegates will take part in the third Vietnam Information and Communications and Technology Summit in Hanoi on June 20.

HCM City authoritites will spend around USD384.5 million on the purchase of 17 trains and equipment for metro route No. 1.

The National Academy of Music in Hanoi has revealed that traditional Then singing will be submitted to UNESCO in a bid to be recognised as a piece of intangible cultural world heritage.

The Government's new VND30 trillion bank loan package is providing positive signals to Vietnam's gloomy real-estate market, said the Director of the State Bank's Credit Department, Nguyen Viet Manh.

While policymakers of several industries in Vietnam have continued to issue irrational regulations, it seems none have been properly criticised, NA deputies have said.

Heritage managers, scientists and researchers discussed such cases as well as more positive examples of restoration at an online workshop held yesterday in Hanoi, HCM City and Da Nang.

Parties involving in the East Sea disputes need to maintain an environment of peace, security and cooperation in the sea to exploit marine resources and protect the sea environment sustainably.

Italian diplomats in Tripoli escaped from their booby-trapped car before it exploded during a shopping trip in the Libyan capital on Tuesday, officials said.

Two million children at targeted kindergartens and primary schools across the country could be given at least 200ml of fresh milk per day from next year, as part of a planned government programme aiming to improve the health of

UK companies wish to assist and invest in projects to build financial centres, urban railways and Long Thanh international airport for the strong development of Vietnam.