VIETNAM TODAY

Several luxury real estate projects in Hanoi are finding it hard to sell their housing, and are forecast to remain unsold for next decade.

North Korea laid out conditions Thursday for any talks with Seoul or Washington, including the withdrawal of UN sanctions and a guaranteed end to South Korea-US joint military drills.

Vietnam-Singapore Business Forum 2013 opens in Ho Chi Minh City on April 17 in the presence of Bui Quang Vinh, Vietnam ’s Minister of Planning and Investment and Lim Hng Kiang, Singapore ’s Minister of Trade and Industry.

The 17th session of the Vietnam-US Human Rights Dialogue took place in Hanoi on April 12, said the Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson when answering a reporter’s question relating to the dialogue.

As many as 108 Vietnamese native animals have been illegally traded through the internet, a conference on wildlife trafficking was told in Hanoi.

People in the central province of Nghe An are being cheated by illegal labour export companies who abandon them in Angola.

Vietnam and Turkey have signed a programme of action between the two Ministries of Foreign Affairs for 2013-2015 and a memorandum of understanding between their Diplomatic Academies.

The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court sentenced a resident in the city to three years in prison and another three years of probation on the charge of “conducting propaganda against the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam”.

"Gangnam Style" star Psy's new music video crossed the 100 million views mark on YouTube Wednesday, shattering another record on the video-sharing site since its much-anticipated weekend debut.

Natural disasters economically cost 1.48 percent of Vietnam’s Gross Domestic Product annually from 2008 to 2012.

NA deputies expressed worries as a result of the Social Insurance Agency using 70% of their funds for loans to credit institutions and concerns about default mount.

The credit industry has been a recent introduction to Vietnam, and some financing companies have taken advantage of consumers' lack of knowledge.

Disregarding the public outcry to the Dong Nai 6 and 6A Hydropower Plants on Dong Nai River due to their negative impact on the environment, the main investor is making plans to go ahead with the project.

Two children have died and six others injured when a warhead exploded yesterday afternoon in Thuan An Commune, Dak My District in Central Highland Province of Dak Nong.

More than 14,000 alleged cases of crime were uncovered during the first quarter of this year, up 4.8 percent from the previous quarter, reports the National Steering Committee for Combating and Preventing Crime.

The Ministry of Information and Communications should give State-owned mobile carrier MobiFone access to greater market share in a bid to stay competitive in the lucrative mobile phone market.

A powerful earthquake struck southeastern Iran on Tuesday, killing at least 34 people across the border in Pakistan and shaking buildings as far away as the Gulf and New Delhi.

Ho Chi Minh City has set developing hi-tech and support industries as the key to realising economic restructuring and growth model shift by 2015.

While the demand for retail space increases, some shops have gone so far as to incorporate living trees into their premises.