VIETNAM TODAY

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has just said Colombian ex-president Alvaro Uribe was plotting to kill him, adding to a deluge of accusations by the former bus driver in recent months.

As many as 160 competitors will take part in the ninth International kite competition on the beach at the Victoria Hoi An Beach Resort and Spa on May 18.

The country's first earth observation satellite, VNREDSat-1, was expected to be launched into orbit at 9.06 am Hanoi time today from the Guiana Space Centre at the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. However, the plan was delayed due

The new web portal of the Government’s Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs (CEMA) was launched on May 3 in Hanoi as part of the programme to reform administrative formalities.

A total of 16,000 enterprises across Vietnam had filed for bankruptcy in the first four months of this year, up 16.9% from a year earlier, a report said.

South Korea has withdrawn its last remaining workers from a joint industrial zone in North Korea at risk of permanent closure due to soaring military tensions.

Vietnam is quickly earning a reputation as a nation of beer lovers, with alcohol sales rising rapidly and local breweries flourishing.

Almost 4 percent of the Vietnamese population suffers from asthma, said Bach Mai Hospital Director Nguyen Quoc Anh at a meeting in Hanoi on May 3 to mark World Asthma Day.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on May 3 received Vice Chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Ho Hau Wah, describing his working visit as a practical contribution to the two countries’ wide-ranging cooperation.

The Ministry of Public Security of China returned 10 Vietnamese children who had been trafficked to China to the Vietnamese side at a ceremony in Guangxi province on May 3.

China has detained 900 people for meat-related crimes including selling rat as mutton, the public security ministry said.

A number multi-billion dollar projects have been approved to start in 2013.

Demand for farmland may strip the Greater Mekong region of a third of its remaining forest cover over the next two decades without swift government action, a leading conservation group has warned.

A collective grave of 164 martyrs who laid down their lives during the anti-US resistance war has been found in Tan Hoa commune, Tan Chau district, southern Tay Ninh province.

The country should revise the 2006 Law on Vocational Training in order to get private sectors to invest more in this practice and attract more students to trade jobs, said Duong Duc Lan, Director of the General Department for

The 2013 Khau Vai Love Market Culture-Tourism Week will kick off on May 4 in Meo Vac district, the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang.

North Korea's continuing development of nuclear technology and long-range ballistic missiles will move it closer to its stated goal of being able to hit the US with an atomic weapon, a new Pentagon report to Congress said.

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam convened its 10-day conference in Hanoi on May 2.

Unscrupulous electronic traders have been travelling to rural areas to promote products with exaggerated descriptions at extravagant prices.