VIETNAM TODAY

The PM has tasked the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to finalize the draft Land Law and submit to the NA Standing Committee prior to May 10 this year.

A passenger plane crashed Tuesday near Kazakhstan's principal city, Almaty, likely killing all 20 on board, Kazakhstan airline SCAT said.

It is a scorching day like any other during this time of year in HCM City. But it is a day different from many in the last 26 years of the life of Le Lan Chi.

Illegal gold mining in Pi Toong Commune is causing pollution in the northern province of Son La's Muong La District, and using up water resources necessary for local agriculture.

The PM has approved a programme that would ban adolescents from selling cigarettes and raise taxes tobacco products.

Weeks after its chairman Eric Schmidt's visit to North Korea, Google has rolled out a detailed map of the isolated state.

US companies have voiced support for the Vietnamese government’s efforts to stabilize the macro-economy and pledged to do long-term business in the country.

Hanoians and foreigners living in the city will experience the Tet festival’s joyful atmosphere by attending a wide range of cultural and art performances held during February.

A training workshop on the national target programme of rural water supply and sanitation for the 2012-2015 period was held in Hanoi on January 28.

The Ministries of Finance and Industry and Trade has issued a circular to request petroleum wholesalers not to raise prices.

Brazilian police investigating a nightclub fire that killed 231 people detained the owners of the club and two band members whose pyrotechnics show authorities say triggered the blaze.

Workers from Vung Tau Paradise Company have raised concern over the firm’s regulation that bans them from bringing over VND200,000 to their workplace.

An official from the Ministry of Justice said that they would protect transgender people.

Singers have expressed their grief over the death of musician Pham Duy, Vietnam's most prolific song composers.

Bank lending to private households in the euro area contracted again in December as the region's crippling debt crisis continues to put a freeze on demand for credit, data showed.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the UNDP are in coordination to carry out a project aimed at enhancing disaster risk management capacity in a large part of Vietnam.

Thanks to Psy's "Gangnam Style" smash hit, the South Korean music industry's long-held dream to make it big in Europe and the USA with its K-pop boy bands has taken a giant leap forward.

More than 3,000 workers at the Minh Phu-Hau Giang Seafood Processing Company in Hau Giang Province stopped work on January 27 to demand for Tet bonus.

The Ministry of Transport today opened the Cai Mep Thi Vai International Port in Ba Ria Vung Tau Province, the country's deepest and biggest seaport.