VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnam’s business environment has become less attractive in comparison to other regional countries, said one official.

Screening and health education programmes for the most common cancers should be expanded in Vietnam to reduce the number of late-stage diagnoses, health experts have recommended.

Hillary Clinton says she won’t run for president in 2016. But insight from sources close to her and recent clues tell a different story.

Around 55,000 enterprises may file for bankruptcy by the end of this year but the situation was not overly serious, one official said.

A seminar is taking place in central Da Nang city on December 12-13 to discuss issues relating to cooperation in the East Sea .

About 60 hectares of forests in the core area of the Yok Don National Park in Dak Lak province would be eliminated when the Drang Phok hydropower plant is built.

The government, in a bold move, is prepared to think out of the square to innovate its policy-making.

Singapore's parliamentary Speaker announced his resignation Wednesday after confessing he had an extramarital affair with a community worker, setting off a fresh sex scandal in the city-state.

Party leader Nguyen Phu Trong praised the Youth Union for its vanguard role in socioeconomic development and volunteer movements to build a prosperous Vietnamese nation.

Sixty-two photos depicting the Mine Advisory Group's activities to clear unexploded ordnance in Vietnam are on display in HCM City.

Measures to manage drug users after detoxification have proved ineffective in many localities.

The average age at which Vietnamese first have sex is 18.8, but 8.5 percent do it at 15 or even earlier, a recent study has found.

The Ministry of Finance has recommended slashing corporate income tax to 23% from the current level of 25%.

From tigers to dolphins, animal populations in many of China's ecosystems have plummeted under decades of development and urbanisation, a World Wildlife Fund study said.

A Cham tower complex has been found in Hoa Vang District after a three-month excavation, including 629 objects dating from the 10th-14th centuries, archaeologists announced.

There was a low possibility of a tsunami hitting Ninh Thuan province that could threaten prospective sites of nuclear power plants planned for construction over the next two years, an expert has said.

The Hanoi People’s Committee has requested that its agencies halt purchasing of public cars to maximise spending efficiency.

All foreign military ships must receive permission from Vietnamese authorities before entering the country's territorial waters, and agree to abide by Vietnamese laws.

A USD1-billion hotel project site invested in by the Kinh Bac City Development Holding Corporation remains a wasteland.