VIETNAM TODAY

Authorities are trying to control contaminated chickens that are being illegally imported into Vietnam.

The PM has asked seven provinces and cities to complete land clearance and resettlement so that construction work can begin on two high-way projects running from Noi Bai-Lao Cai and Hanoi–Hai Phong.

Avon Products Inc., the world’s largest door-to-door cosmetics seller, will cut about 1,500 jobs globally and exit South Korea and Vietnam as part of plan to save $400 million by the end of 2015.

Foreign tourists can bring their autos and motorbikes to Vietnam as a means of transport, according to a Ministry of Transport draft decree.

The “ACD Tour of Vietnam”, the country’s first bicycle race under the International Cycling Union system, will be held for the first time from December 16-22.

European Union finance ministers brokered a deal Thursday to create a single bank supervisor with powers to close down lenders right across the eurozone, several officials said.

Vietnam's Xiangqi (Chinese chess) team will compete in the SportAccord World Mind Games which kick off today in Beijing, China.

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.