VIETNAM TODAY

A live online forum was held by Dan Tri/DTiNews this morning called, “What are the hot programmes?”

After closing the Kim Ma bus station, the manager of Urban Traffic Development Investment under the Hanoi Department of Transportation started construction of Kim Ma Bus Rapid Transit Station.

Over 1.7 million people in poor and rural areas received free reproductive healthcare as part of a Government social franchising service, according to a conference in the capital city on March 21.

Law makers agreed that some articles of the Residence Law should be revised in order to make state residential management more effective, especially in inner areas of central provinces and cities.

ISC-UKEAS and DTiNews are holding an online exchange entitled “What are the hot programmes?”, answering practical questions for students and parents.

US's Chicago state will close 54 schools and 61 school buildings by the beginning of the next academic year in the country's third-largest public school district.

Vietnamese consumers may have more choices when the first locally made smartphones and tablets are unveiled at around just USD50, one official said.

Tourism officials from four Southeast Asian countries - Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia and Vietnam - gathered in HCM City to discuss connectivity measures to develop the industry in the Mekong Sub-region.

Vietnam will do its utmost to increase the quality of education to a level available to people from other Southeast Asian nations.

Many Vietnamese banks in HCM City have lowered deposit interest rates since early March as deposits continue to rise.

Vietnam ’s leading international exposition for food, drink and drug processing and packaging, ProPak Vietnam 2013, has been launched in HCM City with the aim of raising processing effectiveness.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has called countries sharing the Red and Mekong Rivers to cooperate closely together to use and manage water resources in a sustainable manner.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping talked over the phone on March 21, discussing major orientations to elevate the two countries’ comprehensive strategic partnership in the coming time.

Delegates at the 10th ASEAN Chiefs of Defence Forces Informal Meeting signed a joint statement in Brunei highlighting the role of ASEAN member nations' armed forces in coping with regional security challenges.

At least 10 people have been killed in riots in central Myanmar, a local MP said Thursday, in the worst communal violence since Buddhist-Muslim clashes in western Rakhine state last year.

Local men in Thanh Hoa Province has found 74 bombs and mines left over from the American War while working in garden.

Many Vietnamese enterprises expecting more growth this year as foreign investment increases.

Australian writer Nick Vujicic, whose inspirational autobiography Life without Limits chronicles his experience growing up without a single limb, will pay a visit to Vietnam in May.

Many press agencies in Vietnam have been lax in complying with regulations on copyrighted content, one official said.