VIETNAM TODAY

A senior EU trade official says that Vietnam will meet all the five criteria for the world’s largest trading bloc to recognise the country as having a market economy by 2018.

President Barak Obama and President Nguyen Minh Triet co-chaired the second ASEAN-US Leaders’ Meeting in New York on September 24.

Leaders of the two rival Palestinian movements Fatah and Hamas held reconciliation talks in the Syrian capital and said they wanted the discussions to continue.

Construction of the first urban railway linking Nhon and the Hanoi Railway Station starts today in the capital.

A failure to treat poaching, wildlife trade as serious crimes is pushing tigers to extinction, experts warn

The country’s Consumer Price Index in September went up by 1.31 percent over the previous month, the highest level for September of any year since 2000.

Vietnam needs to build a child protection system that paves the way to long-term, sustainable solutions to prevent the abuse of children.

Apple on Saturday launched the latest version of its iPhone in China and opened another two stores in Beijing and Shanghai.

In the past few years, a house in Paris has become a familiar spot for many people with an interest in Vietnam.

700 delegates from ASEAN social organisations, non-governmental organisations, and regional and global consultancy organisations are attending the sixth ASEAN People’s Forum.

As many as 274 badminton players across the world will compete in the Vietnam Grand Prix 2010 in Ho Chi Minh City on October 5-10.

The Doha round of negotiations and impacts on Vietnam was the main topic of a seminar held in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa on Sept. 24.

The Chinese trawlerman whose arrest sparked a major row arrived home on Saturday as Beijing called for compensation and an apology for the "unlawful" detention.

The 31st General Assembly of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly held its second plenary session in Hanoi on September 2.

Crisis-hit New Delhi welcomed its first Commonwealth Games athletes on Friday.

A photo exhibition on Vietnam opened in Germany on Sept. 23 to mark the 35th anniversary of the two countries’ diplomatic ties.

Spanish and Vietnamese artists will be staging a theatrical extravaganza on October 2 to mark the millennium of Hanoi.

A mountainous commune went years without seeing any electricity bills, now the debt has caught up and they are struggling to keep the power on.

Authorities in Vietnam's Central Highlands have brought criminal charges against a restaurant owner accused of trafficking endangered wild animals, a local official said.