VIETNAM TODAY

The MoIT has projected that the country’s total power demand in the peak dry month of April would increase nearly 12 percent over the same period last year, exceeding 11 billion kWh.

Vietnam’s shrimp exporters are concerned by a new South Korean food safety regulations that will test shrimp imports for ethoxyquin for one year.

North Korea has demanded the withdrawal of all South Korean managers and staff from the Kaesong joint industrial zone by next week, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Thursday.

The Ministry of Transport is considering upgrading the current railway system to halve the travelling time from Hanoi to HCM City while also looking to put another high-speed railway project into action.

The Ministry of Health has ordered relevant municipal and provincial departments and institutes of hygiene and epidemiology to be prepared for avian influenza H7N9 following the WHO’s report on fatal cases of the disease in China.

A boarding school in the remote village of Ta Hoc, Son La Province is struggling with food shortages.

International logistics scholars and representatives from aviation agencies and logistics companies will meet in HCM City on April 25-26.

Defence Minister General Phung Quang Thanh gave a warm reception for visiting Director of the Russian Federal Security Service General Bortnikov A.V in Hanoi on April 3.

The PM has agreed to lower the current quota of 450 students for every 10,000 people to between 300 and 350 students by 2020.

A report from the National Hospital of Endocrinology showed that the country is seeing an increase in the number of people with diabetes.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak dissolved parliament Wednesday in preparation for a general election seen as the toughest challenge yet for the ruling coalition after 56 years in power.

The People's Committee of the central province of Quang Binh has approved an experimental adventure tour to Son Doong Cave suggested by Howard Limbert, expert of the British Cave Research Association.

The HSBC has forecast in a newly-issued report that Vietnam is expected to achieve a 5.5% growth rate of GDP in 2013.

Countries of the ASEAN and China have pledged to further promote their strategic partnership and comprehensive cooperation in line with the principles of mutual understanding and respect as well as friendly neighbourliness.

Foods prices in Hanoi are increasing due to higher transport fees following the petrol price hike on March 28.

People in southern central and south-eastern regions have been struggling to adapt to the scorching drought.

The trial in the land revocation case involving a violent clash between farmers and authorities has commenced in Haiphong City.

North Korea has delayed the entry of South Koreans to a joint industrial complex in a rare move amid high tensions on the Korean peninsula.

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development yesterday ordered a stricter ban on the transport and trade of poultry through border gates.