VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnam welcomes oil-related partnerships with foreigners in its exclusive economic zone and continental shelf, Foreign Ministry spokesman Luong Thanh Nghi said in a press conference.

Top Vietnamese player Nguyen Tien Minh has move two notches up to 10th position in the latest ranking of the Badminton World Federation (BWF) position after one month.

G20 ministers will meet in Mexico to seek a boost in trade as part of efforts to tackle Europe's debt crisis, officials said.

North Korea launched a rocket that appears to have disintegrated soon after blastoff, South Korean and Japanese authorities said.

The French agencies hosted a seminar in Hanoi to share technological know-how for medical waste treatment in Vietnam.

Vietnam’s oil and gas cooperation projects with foreign partners are well within the country’s sovereignty and jurisdiction rights.

China has closed 42 websites and deleted more than 210,000 posts since mid-March in a crackdown on online "rumours".

The General Department of Customs warned that foreign invested enterprises have been making the corrupt use of the loopholes in the laws to refuse to pay tax debts and run away.

Seventy-six travel operators, hotels, and transport and tourism businesses are attending a tourism festival which opened at the 23/9 Park on April 12.

A debate has been raised by readers about whether to give money to children to reward for children’s efforts.

Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has required hospitals and clinics nationwide to take extra measures to curb outbreaks of hand-foot-mouth disease as least as possible.

Danang City has ended an exchange programme that switches low-quality helmets for standard safe alternatives.

75 litres of water, not 30 litres as previously reported, has been leaking from the dam of the Song Tranh 2 hydropower plant in Quang Nam Province, an official confirmed.

North Korea's five-day window to launch a rocket opened with Asian countries on alert.

More than 230 tourist vessels in northern Quang Ninh province's Ha Long Bay have been equipped with global positioning systems.

A UN-backed deadline for an end to 13 months of bloodshed in Syria that has killed thousands passed amid doubts about the regime's compliance with the ceasefire terms.

The Australian Government will provide financial support for 13 direct aid projects (DAPs) to northern and central provinces of Vietnam in the 2011-2012 financial year.

US businesses have voiced their support for negotiations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement between the US and Vietnam and other partners.

Two Chinese graduate students were killed in a mystery shooting which could have been a failed carjacking in Los Angeles, police said.