VIETNAM TODAY

Venezuela's acting President Nicolas Maduro, Hugo Chavez's handpicked successor, has won a slim victory over centre-right opposition candidate Henrique Capriles, election officials announced. Capriles says he will contest the results.

Several cultural experts have voiced their objections over a plan to build an overpass at the O Cho Dua junction in Hanoi as it will affect an archaeological site.

The number of plastic bags consumed in Vietnam will decrease by 65 percent as of 2020, compared to the previous decade.

The minister of construction, Trinh Dinh Dung, said that the credit stimulus package, amounting to VND30 trillion, is necessary to support the real estate sector.

The circular fining drivers who do not possess proper ownership registration documents is to go into effect today, April 15.

A system of lava caves including one considered as the longest lava cave of Southeast Asia has been discovered in the southern province of Dong Nai, according to the Vietnam's Institute of Tropical Biology.

President Truong Tan Sang has affirmed the State always pays attention to creating favourable conditions for fishermen to keep doing their job at sea.

Thailand and Cambodia are to face off at the UN's highest court Monday in a dispute over land surrounding a flashpoint temple that has seen deadly clashes along their joint border.

HCM City should change its approach to the development of handicraft villages so that they are run more like businesses, said an official.

A number of build-transfer projects in Hanoi are incurring lots of problems and need re-planning due to capital shortage or site clearance.

The PM has launched an order to start the construction of the International Gateway Port in Hai Phong.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, and the Association for the Support of Vietnamese Handicapped and Orphans jointly host a meeting to honour outstanding people with disabilities, orphans and patrons.

Nick Vujicic, the Australian national, who is now known the world over for his autobiography ‘Life without Limits’ and his awe inspiring conquest of his physical disabilities, will be in Vietnam by May 22 and hold talks with thousands

A conference to share experience in maintaining the connection between National Assembly (NA) deputies and voters was held in the northern province of Quang Ninh on April 13.

Currently, Vietnam’s interest rates on loans are still highest in the region despite strenuous efforts by the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) to adjust them since mid-2012.

Vietnam faces a high risk of avian influenza H7N9 spreading into the country as it shares a borderline with China, Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien said at a conference in Hanoi on April 13.

Months of increased tension at the Guantanamo Bay prison boiled over into a clash between guards and detainees Saturday as the military closed a communal section of the facility and moved its inmates into single cells.

Authorities in Can Tho halted the operation of a clinic whose owner claims to be able to cure his patients by speaking to them.

A passenger jet operated by budget airline Lion Air -- which recently sealed blockbuster orders for new planes -- missed the runway at Bali airport Saturday and landed in the sea but everybody on board survived.