VIETNAM TODAY

A passenger bus crashed through bridge railing in Dak Lak Province, leaving more than 30 dead and 20 injured.

The third session of the 13th National Assembly will open on May 21, and is expected to approve 13 draft laws and seven resolutions, and comment on six other bills.

Three people were killed after a chaotic shooting scene that had crowds running for cover in Louisville in the USA.

A caretaker government took office in Greece to organise a second election after an inconclusive May 6 vote.

A Frenchman who lost his limbs braved currents to swim from Papua New Guinea to Indonesia, in the first stretch of a mission to swim between five continents.

Hundreds of households in the new resettlement areas built by hydropower plant investors in Quang Nam Province face great difficulties.

It's been hundreds of years since the Tasmanian devil last lived on the Australian mainland but a pioneering group is being bred for survival.

A collection of woodblocks printed with Buddhist Sutras was officially listed as world heritage by UNESCO on May 16.

Vietnam has 1,700 vocational training schools which annually provide more than 1.6 million workers but the market is still running short of skilled labourers.

Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai ordered the Ministry of Industry and Trade to make the schedule to use bio-fuel compulsorily by next year.

A large number of infertile couples are turning to the black market for sperm donations to due to major shortages in hospitals.

Vietnam is seriously lacking manpower in some professions, while it has many redundant workers in other fields.

Lam Dong authorities decided to chop down 247 pine trees of the Dalat special-use forest to give place for mineral exploitation.

Illegal gold exploiters illicitly hired rubber land from the Co Tu ethnic people in Thua Thien Hue Province’s Thuong Long Commune.

The PM appointed another deputy governor to the State Bank of Vietnam to accelerate restructuring in the banking sector.

Syrian forces were accused of executing 15 civilians, as members of a UN team of observers were evacuated the day after a bomb blast hit their convoy.

MTV Exit is organising a free concert to promote human rights with the participation of famous artists like Simple Plan, Brown Eyed Girls and My Tam.

France's new government, gets down to work Thursday with the first order of business on their agenda being a pay cut for themselves.

Vietinbank goes through with a deal to sell 20% more stake to a foreign partner in the fourth quarter, said the chairman.