VIETNAM TODAY

All hospitals with 500 beds and more will be required to set up a counselling centre under a draft decree issued by the Ministry of Health.

Japan's presumptive premier Shinzo Abe got his US leaders mixed up, when he told business chiefs he had been speaking to "President Bush" after a phone call from Barack Obama.

A prophecy circulated on social networks has tied Nostradamus and Psy to the December 21 apocalypse prophesied by the Mayans.

Vietnam and the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan should push the import-export of products of each side’s strength, in order to tap into the great potential of bilateral trade.

The groundbreaking ceremony of the Hanoi South Supporting Industrial Park (Hanssip) was held in Hanoi’s Phu Xuyen District on December 17.

The satellite launched by North Korea appears to be dead as no signal can be detected, a US-based astrophysicist has said.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung has described his Haitian counterpart Laurent Salvador Lamothe’s visit a milestone in the history of bilateral relations, providing fresh impetus for stronger future cooperation.

Europe will have to work "very hard" to maintain its generous welfare system and remain competitive, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said.

Coffee exports in the past 11 months reached 1.56 million tonnnes and fetched around USD3.34 billion, according to the Vietnam Customs.

Environmental conservation towards sustainable tourism in Halong Bay and its vicinity is being improved thanks to a project funded by JICA.

The last 10 years witnessed big upheavals in the pre-school education. The policy on pre-school education socialisation has kept a lot of children away from kindergartens.

A car bomb attack killed 16 people and wounded around 70 on Monday in a Pakistan market in the northwestern town of Jamrud, close to the Afghan border, officials said.

Notions of masculinity associated with toughness and dominance over women were risk factors for violence against women in Vietnam, a workshop heard yesterday.

Vietnam has entered its ‘wedding season’ and some people have chosen more eccentric ways of celebrating the big day.

Up to 20% of doctors in Vietnam prescribe medicine without any medical check-up.

The MoIT has proposed to cancel 377 hydropower projects due to environmental concerns and investment obstacles.

Contributions by foreign nongovernmental organisations to Vietnam's development was praised at a ceremony last night in Hanoi.

A number of computer companies in Hanoi and HCM City have been fined for software copyright violation.

The number of young people diagnosed with mental health problems is on the rise in Vietnam.