VIETNAM TODAY

World No.10 Nguyen Tien Minh will join his Vietnamese teammates at the 2013 Badminton Asia Championships in Taipei, China from April 16-21.

The country’s first international rubber and tyre industry exhibition opened on April 12 at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Centre in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 7.

Tests at the British Ministry of Defence on a Syrian soil sample reveal that chemical weapons have been used in the conflict, the Times reported on Saturday.

Danish Demining Group Vietnam has launched an education project for the prevention of accidents related to landmines and unexploded ordnances in central Quang Nam province’s Duy Xuyen district.

Some 158,200 taels of gold bullion (roughly six tonnes) were sold in six auctions held by the State Bank of Vietnam.

A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit western Japan early on Saturday, injuring at least 15 people and destroying some houses, officials and reports said.

Despite the real estate slump, land and housing around Hanoi’s West Lake is still highly priced and attractive to better-off people.

Eleven Indonesian pirates, detained by Vietnamese marine police last year, will be extradited to Indonesia today (April 13), Vietnamese marine authorities announced.

Nearly VND24,000 billion will be allocated to the areas of the Central Highlands region’s strength such as coffee processing, rubber, eco-tourism and modern industry.

A representative from the Foreign Ministry has opposed China’s plan to bring tourists to Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago.

One-thousand days since the idea of building mobile schools and provide computer education to children in rural areas struck Nguyen Van Hanh, five such institutions have been set up.

President Vladimir Putin unveiled a new $50 billion drive for Russia to preserve its status as a top space power.

The national men’s football squad has dropped three notches to 132nd in the latest April rankings of the International Federation of Association Football,, but still tops the region.

Developing a vaccine for the H7N9 strain of bird flu that has killed 10 people in eastern China could take "many months", US public health experts have said.

A mother in HCM City has denounced a local kindergarten teacher for using sleeping pills on her two-year-old child.

A master plan for developing the Dong Van Global Geology Park in northern mountainous province of Ha Giang by 2020 has been announced.

People who leave litter on streets or in urban drainage systems may be fined between VND500,000 and VND1 million, according to a draft decree.

A law on employment should help develop the country‘s labour market and human resources in order to meet the demands of economic restructuring and socio-economic development to 2020.

Vietnam has scrapped regulations that fine same-sex couples who marry in what activists say is yet another move towards guaranteeing the rights of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community.