VIETNAM TODAY

Thousands of people are flocking to and from bus and rail stations to return to their hometowns for the Lunar New Year.

Vietnam's Nguyen Tien Minh was ranked seventh in the world in January according to the Badminton World Federation.

Tunisia braced for a major cabinet shake-up Tuesday following days of protests to topple the interim government, in charge after a mass uprising ended president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's 23-year rule.

To most Westerners, the idea of paying someone to stick little scoops and tweezers into their ears is downright unnerving. To Vietnamese, it's an art.

The Japanese government will provide JPY58.180 billion (USD703 million) for three major projects in Vietnam

Since the Tet shopping season is now at its peak, queuing in long lines to check out at overcrowded supermarkets has become an unwelcome reality for most shoppers in Ho Chi Minh City.

Vietnamese police have rescued dozens of weasels, porcupines and snakes destined for restaurant tables as part of a crackdown on the trafficking of rare animals, an officer said Monday.

A delegation of the National Assembly led by Nguyen Van Son, Head of the NA’s Committee for External Relations, is attending the 19 th annual meeting Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum in Mongolia.

Thanks to a resettlement project outside of Hue, many people will have a happier Tet in better living conditions.

It’s estimated by the General Statistics Office that the consumer price index will have risen by 1.74% by the end of January.

Terrorists struck again in the heart of Russia, with a suicide bomber blowing himself up Monday in Moscow's busiest airport.

Vietnamese private sector conglomerate Masan Group said that funds advised by U.S. private equity firm Mount Kellett Capital Management have agreed to invest US$100 million in its unit Masan Resources.

Inward remittances from abroad are soaring ahead of Tet, the Lunar New Year, early February.

In the central province of Nghe An, the thick fog and cold weather over the past weeks has hurt lime crops.

Khieu Thi Huyen Trang won the championship title of Vietnam’s Next Top Model contest in its final round held in Ho Chi Minh City.

Japan's PM Naoto Kan on Monday warned the public will have to bear their share of the "burden" to help offset the cost of a rapidly ageing society and its impact on the national debt.

People of the mountain village of Sapa gathered to sell their beautiful and ubiquitous peach blossoms for Tet.

Part 20 of Laura Lam's series deals with Ho Chi Minh's role in China's Second Sino-Japanese War and Civil War.

Domestic beer producers will churn out roughly 2.7 billion litres of the drink this year to meet the rising demands of local consumers.