VIETNAM TODAY

Bai Tu Long Bay in the northern province of Quang Ninh is expected to stun holiday-makers as various tours to explore the beautiful bay will be launched this summer.

More than 2,500 people attended a talk by Nick Vujicic, an inspirational speaker without arms and legs, at the White Palace Conference Centre in Ho Chi Minh City's Tan Binh district on May 22.

A British soldier was hacked to death by two men shouting Islamic slogans in a south London street on Wednesday, in what the government said appeared to be a terrorist attack.

Hanoi’s authorities are struggling to deal with the city’s anarchic taxi companies, as complaints of theft and rip-offs of foreign tourists and other users spiral.

The German Red Cross has pledged to continue humanitarian projects in Vietnam during the 2013-2015 period to promote charitable activities that benefit disadvantaged people.

A whale weighing around one tonne caught in a net offshore the central province of Quang Binh was rescued and safely released back to the sea on May 22.

The Prime Minister has ordered the organisation of an all-out campaign to fight drug crimes during the action month to prevent and fight drug in June.

India and China will study new ways to ease tensions on their border after an army standoff in the Himalayas, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on his first official foreign trip.

A Spanish-funded project on sustainable tourism development in Vietnam’s highland regions has been a great success, a conference was told in Hanoi.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan has represented Vietnam at the 19th international conference on the future of Asia, which opened in Tokyo on May 22.

The slow progress in dealing with problems in Duong Lam village is unfortunate and more flexible solutions need to be explored, the Hanoi’s party leader said.

Disadvantaged children and their demands for education have drawn the attention of many delegates at a workshop in Ho Chi Minh City.

Global Witness has maintained its accusation against Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group’s land grab, deforestation in Laos and Cambodia.

Rescuers have recovered seven more bodies from a collapsed mine tunnel in Indonesia, its US operator said, taking the accident's final toll to 28.

Construction of a new SOS village, the first of it kind in the Red River Delta region, began in Thai Binh Province yesterday.

The Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives, Anna Burke , starts her three-day official visit to Vietnam on May 22 at the invitation of National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung.

The government has proposed the NA slash VAT by 50% for social housing transaction contracts in an effort to help warm up the property market.

HCM City police have summoned 40 people who were allegedly involved in a large-scale ring of male prostitution.

National Assembly deputies yesterday discussed the draft Anti-terrorism Law, debating international co-operation in this area and measures such as the establishment and operation of the steering committees of anti-terrorism.