VIETNAM TODAY

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.

Vietnam and Australia have agreed on measures to strengthen bilateral ties in a substantial and efficient manner, especially through visit exchanges.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stressed the urgency of resolving security concerns about Syria, Iran and North Korea.

Vietnam and Cuba have affirmed their resolve to deepen the solidarity, friendship and multifaceted cooperation.

Forty out of 52 Vietnamese stranded workers in Malaysia returned home on April 10 thanks to great efforts from Vietnamese and Malaysian authorities.

Stakeholders who were allocated land designated for forestry purposes made use of only 20 to 30 percent of that land.

Vietnam’s young tennis hopeful Nguyen Hoang Thien has suffered another setback in his bid to become a player on the professional circuit.

A massive earthquake struck off Indonesia's Sumatra island, monitors reported, prompting a Indian Ocean-wide tsunami alert.

Pilot landslide warning systems will be set up in six mountainous regions this year in a bid to save lives and minimise infrastructure damage.

Experts and academics from Europe, Asia, Australia and the host country Russia, met in St Petersburg to attend an international seminar on security issues in East Asia and the East Sea.

The jury has rejected the petition by Le Van Tach, who exposed technical faults in Toyota Motor Vietnam’s car manufacturing.

A bill that calls for the confiscation and subsequent sale of vehicles used in illegal racing is causing NA deputies difficulties.