VIETNAM TODAY

Experts are worried that infant-formula companies are contributing to the sharp decline in the rate of breastfeeding.

The Wallonine-Bruxelles region has approved 28 non-refundable ODA projects capitalised at US$4.5 million for Vietnam in the 2013-2015 period.

Global economic activity is picking up, especially in the United States and Japan, though it appears to be weakening in India, the OECD has said.

The first-instance trial of five local officials involved in a land eviction case in Tien Lang district, Hai Phong City, concluded on April 10 after three days of sitting with several jail sentences.

Vietnam always attaches importance to and wishes to further enhance cooperation with Germany in the coming time.

Microsoft reminded customers that the services and supports for Windows XP will be retired on April 8, 2014.

Experts have said that Vietnam should ease regulations on foreign individuals and organisations on owning property.

Vietnam Journalists Association deputy chairman Ha Minh Hue shines light on why he is advocating for a lower corporate income tax on media organisations, to 10 per cent as applied to cultural field activities, to support the financially struggling press.

Rescuers Wednesday wound up operations after pulling 20 people from the rubble after an earthquake struck near the port city of Bushehr, killing 37 people but sparing Iran's sole nuclear power plant.

An incident at a HCM City school in which many students tore up their history lessons after learning that it would not be on their final exams has stirred controversy.

Doctors from the Hanoi-based Bach Mai Hospital conducted the country's first successful endoscopic surgery on a man with mitral valve regurgitation.

Blue-green algae, a type of bacteria, has been detected for the first time in Tuyen Lam Lake, an attraction in Da Lat, a popular tourism destination in the Central Highlands, raising worries of water contamination.

The Ministry of Construction has issued a draft decree on the levels of fines for unlicensed construction work.

A four-year-old boy died from avian flu strain H5N1 in southern Dong Thap province, authorities confirmed on April 9, saying that measures were being taken to prevent the virus from spreading further.

The UN warned on Wednesday that austerity measures are hitting children hard, as it published a ranking of kids' well-being in rich countries topped by northern European countries and showing Britain climbing out of the bottom tier.

Vietnamese Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Tuan Anh and French Minister of Foreign Trade Nicole Bricq cut the red ribbon inaugurating the France Year in Vietnam at a ceremony in Hanoi.

Employees across Vietnam would have two long holidays to mark the Liberation Day, May Day and to commemorate the Hung Kings.

A large number of people in Hanoi still face bureaucratic measures when working with local state agencies, a recent survey showed.

The First Meeting of the Special Experts Working Group on the ASEAN Regional Standards for Organic Agriculture and the 9th Meeting of the Task Force on ASEAN Standards for Horticultural Produce and Other Food Crops has opened in Brunei.