VIETNAM TODAY

The second ASEAN-EU Public Dialogue Forum kicked off in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 2.

Vietnam’s approximately 300,000 teen abortion cases constitutes the highest adolescent abortion rate in Southeast Asia and the fifth highest in the world.

At least seven people were killed and nine injured Tuesday when a bus plunged off a bridge overlooking one of Rio's main access roads, firefighters said.

Alan Phan, a famous Overseas Vietnamese fund manager, has answered criticism over his opinions that the Vietnamese real estate market should be left to fall.

A project to manage industrial pollution in the basins of Dong Nai, Nhue and Day rivers was launched in Hanoi on April 2.

Doctors at the National Hospital of Pediatrics in Hanoi say that an emaciated three-year-old boy hospitalized earlier this month has tested positive for HIV and is now suffering from full-blown AIDS.

Construction of the Tan Nam-Mon Chay bridge over the Vam Co Dong river in Tay Ninh Province began on April 2 in a joint effort to make it easier for people living along the border between Vietnam and Cambodia

The Ministry of Public Security has announced the forensic results on the cause of a young man's death in Vinh Phuc Province.

Businessmen have resorted to illegally borrowing capital at extremely high interest rates, often known as “black credit", leaving them to sink deeper into difficulty.

North Korea announced Tuesday it was "readjusting and restarting" all facilities at its main Yongbyon nuclear complex, including a reactor mothballed in 2007.

Vietnamese Grandmaster Le Quang Liem will take part in the Asian Continental Individual Chess Championships in Manila, the Philippines, next month.

Eighty per cent of Vietnamese population will be insured by 2020, as part of a newly-ratified Government scheme aiming at accessing health insurance for all.

The Vietnam Marine Police Department has said it would beef up protection for Vietnamese fishermen fishing in the nation’s territorial waters with frequent patrols of the East Sea.

India's Supreme Court ended a seven-year legal battle by rejecting Swiss giant Novartis' bid for patent protection on a new version of its Glivec cancer pill in a ruling hailed by activists seeking access to cheaper generic drugs.

The Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival, the only electronic and experimental music event in the country, will hit the capital for the sixth time on April 12 and 13.

Many taxi firms in Hanoi are expected to raise taxi fares by VND600 -1,000 per kilometre in the next fortnight, responding to the recent petrol price hike, according to the chairman of the Hanoi Taxi Association Do Quoc Binh.

Traffic deaths in the first quarter of this year rose by 0.7 percent against the same period last year, according to statistics from the National Committee for Traffic Safety.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has apologised to Chinese consumers after the company was subjected to criticism in state-run media over "arrogance" and double standards.

Thirteen people including children were killed after a fire broke out in a Muslim school in Yangon, police in Myanmar's main city said, blaming it on an electrical fault.