VIETNAM TODAY

Several experts have gone on record as saying that the price hikes proposed Electricity Group of Vietnam are unfair to consumers.

The 7th summit of the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle was held in Vientiane on March 12 under the chairmanship of Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

Venezuela will set up a formal inquiry into claims that deceased President Hugo Chavez's cancer was the result of poisoning by his enemies abroad, the government said.

A romantic novel by Vietnamese-French writer Nguyen Hoai Huong won the top prize at the Foire Du Livre de Bruxelles book fair in Belgium.

Vietnam has been urged to do more to fight the illegal trade in rhino horn at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.

Many people in Dong Nai Province have been spending sleepless nights protecting their gardens from illegal sand exploiters.

The Vietnam–Japan coal policy dialogue opened in Hanoi on March 12 with the aim of discussing policies to develop each country’s coal industry, power generation from coal and natural gas, and waste disposal projects.

PVI Sun Life, a joint venture between PetroVietnam Insurance Holdings and Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, made its debut in Hanoi on March 12.

A helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan has claimed the lives of five members of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, NATO said on Tuesday.

Despite the fact that SME Securities Corporation is on the brink of bankruptcy, it was still ranked 30 among the 500 fastest-growing companies.

The owner of a privately owned luxury temple in Hai Duong Province has recently shocked the public by organising extravagant parties.

Vietnam supports and creates the best conditions for German companies to operate efficiently in the country, says National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung is scheduled to arrive in Laos today to begin a three-day visit and chair the seventh Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle Summit.

North Korea leader Kim Jong-Un threatened to "wipe out" a South Korean island as Pyongyang came under new economic and diplomatic fire Tuesday from US sanctions and UN charges of gross rights abuses.

Vietnam Airlines said that it would suspend all flights from and to Hue City between March 20 and November 20 this year because Phu Bai Airport will be closed for upgrading.

The US charitable organization TCF will provided VND810 million in non-refundable aid for a project in support of disadvantaged people in Thua Thien-Hue, central Vietnam.

One booth at a travel exhibition held in Berlin was blamed for showing images of a Chinese tourist destination, said an official.

The Ministry of Transport has opposed the Ministry of Public Security by not condoning new fines for people whose names are not officially registered on the vehicles they use.

Tan Rai and Nhan Co. bauxite projects are necessary for the development of Vietnam’s aluminium industry, one official said.