VIETNAM TODAY

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.

Thua Thien-Hue province’s Phu Loc district will host the international Laguna Triathlon on April 14.

Carnival, the world's largest cruise group, unveiled its Asian expansion plans on Tuesday, predicting the regional market for leisure voyages will grow dramatically within the decade.

Local authorities in some mountainous districts in Binh Dinh Province are finding it hard to stop rising suicide rate among the locals.

A cooperation agreement in hi-tech engineer training was signed in HCM City by France’s Dasault Systèmes Group, the French Education Ministry and the University of Science and Technology of Hanoi.

A month-long campaign was launched in the southern province of Dong Nai on April 9 to raise public awareness of food hygiene and safety.

North Korea said Tuesday the Korean peninsula was headed for "thermo-nuclear" war and advised foreigners in South Korea to consider evacuation, in the latest in a series of apocalyptic threats.

Eighteen riders from Australia, England, New Zealand and the US have taken off on the third edition of Rally Indochina, an exclusive group of committed bikers riding for charity purposes.

An 11 year-old Vietnamese prodigy has been criticised for boastfulness by fellow Facebook users.

A man shot dead 13 people, including a baby, as he went on a rampage in a village outside the Serbian capital Belgrade, television and officials said on Tuesday.

Thousands of workers went on strike against alleged mistreatment and unreasonable policies of a Korean company in Hanoi.

Bad debt in the banking system has been estimated to be at VND120 trillion as of Dec. 31, 2012, and continues to rise.

The Ministry of Health held an urgent meeting in Hanoi on April 8 to discuss preventive measures against A/H7N9 bird flu with Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien in the chair.

Vietnamese people from home and abroad have contributed their opinions on the draft amendments to the 1992 constitution, National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung has said.

The Asian Development Bank said the region's emerging economies would pick up this year but warned that the recovery remained fragile because of the eurozone crisis and tensions in Asia.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has agreed with the Construction Ministry’s proposals to expand the flood shelter pilot model across the northern central and central coastal regions.

HCM City is losing its chance to attract foreign tourists due to new direct flights in surrounding area as well as a lack of standard facilities.

Residents in the northern Ha Nam Province's Kim Bang District have just returned the endangered primate back to the Hoa Lu- Van Long special-use forest in the neighbouring Ninh Binh Province, local authorities announced.