VIETNAM TODAY

Despite controversy over the issue, the Ministry of Health has defended the right of same-sex couples to marry.

Many experts have voiced opposition to the Department of Industry and Trade's proposal to return to bicycles as a means to ease traffic and carbon emissions.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung will head a high-ranking delegation to attend the 22 nd ASEAN Summit scheduled for April 24-25 in Brunei.

Reducing hospital overcrowding, tightening hospital transfers and managing health insurance funds were among the topics discussed at a question-and-answer session of the National Assembly.

Advanced and developing countries alike voiced worries over fragile global growth as the IMF and World Bank spring meetings kicked off.

China on Thursday vehemently denied media reports of a seemingly banal tale that has spread like wildfire on the web -- that President Xi Jinping took a taxi in Beijing.

An annual meeting discussing the pilot scientific research cooperation program between Vietnam and Denmark has been held in Hanoi.

NA deputies gave their opinions on the new revised land law and shortcomings of the management by the state.

Nearly 250 unauthorised carpentry workshops have been closed in central Ha Tinh Province after its Forest Management Department launched a two-week crackdown on illegal logging.

A 5.2-magnitude earthquake hit northwestern Iran on Thursday, only days after a deadly temblor struck near the border with Pakistan, media reported citing the seismological centre at Tehran University.

The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry released 2012 edition of its annual report on Vietnamese businesses in Hanoi on April 18.

Vietnam to apply fines of up to VND500,000 (USD23.85) for those who smoke at wrong places beginning from May.

Vietnam’s major economic groups and corporations witnessed an increase in fatal workplace accidents in 2012, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Vietnam’s No.1 badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh has surprisingly been disqualified from the first round of the 2013 Badminton Asia Championships in Taipei (China).

A deadly explosion and fire tore through a fertilizer plant in a small Texas town late on Wednesday, injuring more than 100 people, leveling dozens of homes and spewing toxic fumes that forced evacuations of half the community, authorities said.

The Prime Minister has approved a project to send 1,800 State employees abroad for further training from 2013 to 2020, using State funding.

Women account for 24.4 percent of the total deputies in the Vietnamese National Assembly, ranking it second only to Laos in Southeast Asia, reported the United Nations Development Programme.

Ministries, sectors and regions must prepare measures to ensure road safety and tackle traffic jams during the coming holidays commemorating the Hung Kings, Liberation Day and May Day, the Prime Minister has urged.

Many parents in big cities have been racing to send their children to prestigious schools.