VIETNAM TODAY

Carlos Slim Helú of Mexico beat Bill Gates and Warren E. Buffett for the top spot on Forbes magazine’s annual list of billionaires.

A driver crashed his car into at least 20 vehicles while driving at high-speeds during rush hour in Hanoi, causing several injuries.

To many Vietnamese, Pu Dao, a collection of villages in the northwestern province of Lai Chau, offers no touristic lure.

Armed with gas-masks but firefighters still struggled searching for survivors.

The two sides agreed to upgrade Da Nang University to be the Vietnam-UK Public University.

Representatives from twenty businesses from Kansai, Japan paid a three-day visit to HCM City in an effort to seek business opportunities in the country’s largest city.

The stone steles of doctoral candidates in the Le-Mac dynasties (1442-1779) have been recognised as part of the World’s Documentary Heritage.

Linh Lan Construstion Company won a tender thanks to receiving verification from a list of non-existent social insurance holders.

Thick, black smoke began pouring out of the 15th floor causing trapped people to wave out their windows for help.

Officer said he smelled burning brakes when he caught up with the Prius.

Nguyen Thi Thong, a retired teacher has been teaching disadvantaged children in Thanh Hoa for nearly 10 years.

Four guns that were displayed at an exhibition at a Thua Thien-Hue museum during Lunar New Year holidays last month have mysteriously disappeared.

There are restaurants serving Vietnam's iconic soup in all 50 states of the U.S.

DTiNews started investigating allegations of an illegal labour export ring to Angola based out of Ha Tinh City.

The PM's Working Group on Administrative Reform has ordered government agencies to renew their effort to reduce their administrative costs by 30%.

Construction of the 220km Vietnamese segment of a transnational highway linking the greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) will begin in the second quarter of the year.

The film “Choi voi” (Adrift) , directed by Bui Thac Chuyen, has won the Bronze Taiga at the 8th international film festival in Khanty-Mansiysk city, Russia.

A number of provinces around the country plan to concentrate on growing bananas for export, due to increasing world demand.

Seven people have been arrested in the Irish Republic over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist for depicting the Prophet Muhammad, police say.