VIETNAM TODAY

Nghe An Province’s district authorities are employing more high ranking officials than normal staff.

Officials from the Japan International Cooperation Agency and Dien Bien province have agreed to expand their pilot forest sustainable management project beyond selected areas given initial encouraging achievements.

Beijing urged residents to stay indoors as emergency measures were rolled out aimed at countering a heavy cloud of smog blanketing the Chinese capital and swathes of the country.

Vietnamese representatives Nguyen Thi Thanh An and Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son have pocketed tickets to the Chess World Cup in Norway next year.

South Korea will not accept any new Vietnamese workers this year due to the rising number of illegal immigrants.

Hanoi is set to help 16,5000 households escape poverty in 2013 so that its poverty rate will drop by 1 percent compared to last year.

The Ministry of Health has unveiled a project that will provide financial support to families with two girls.

Mexican authorities are investigating why a band that performed love songs was kidnapped and killed by gunmen, who dumped their bodies in a well in the drug cartel-infested north.

While, according to many, the tourism industry in Vietnam has shown significant progress, many travel firms have said that they are facing difficulties.

A new school in Hoa Binh Province was inaugurated under a public-private partnership between Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, local authorities and Boeing.

Many foreign patients are coming to Vietnam for invitro fertilisation as the country tops Southeast Asia in this technique.

The Vietnam - Netherlands Friendship and Cooperation Association made debut in Hanoi on January 29.

Vietnam is looking for solutions to ensure energy security after scientists warned that climate change would have strong impacts on energy demand and supply in the country.

The Ministry of Education and Training will intensify management over foreign education institutions across the country this year.

Two soldiers and 16 Al-Qaeda militants were killed on Tuesday in a Yemeni military offensive against the jihadists who are suspected of holding Western hostages, sources said.

The Eximbank and the Sacombank have unveiled merger plans at a cooperative agreement’s signing ceremony in Hanoi on January 29.

The State Bank of Vietnam has proposed eight solutions to help reinvigorate the currently moribund real estate market.

Over 1,000 old ships are waiting to reduced to scrap iron in the port of Haiphong, posing a great environmental threat to the area.

The Netherlands’ Queen Beatrix has announced that she will abdicate the throne in April in favour of her son Prince Willem-Alexander.