VIETNAM TODAY

The Asian Development Bank is supporting conservation efforts in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia in a community-driven initiative.

South Korea staged a live-fire exercise on a flashpoint island near the disputed border, but NK said it would not hit back.

Japan's 18 metre tall Gundam combat robot, hero to millions of sci-fi animation fans, emerged victorious Monday.

Vietnam’s first timber and forest product festival will be held next year in Quy Nhon City, Binh Dinh province from March 26-29.

Travel demands are already becoming a headache for bus station owners in the run up to Tet.

Tra fish will be taxed by about 35% when exported to the Brazil market as the country has just put it on a “special” list.

A community-based approach to integrated water management has yielded clear socio-economic benefits in North Vam Nao Island in the Mekong delta province of An Giang.

Heavy snow disrupted the Christmas holiday getaway in Europe.

Fake, dubious and unbranded cakes, foods, construction materials and clothes are widely sold in Ho Chi Minh City, especially as Tet is drawing near.

Foreign shipping lines have been left at sea by unclear liquidation procedures for abandoned containers at Vietnam’s ports.

South Korea’s Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co., received an order worth about $3 billion to build two power plants in Vietnam.

A Ministry of Education and Training survey showed that over 70% of school students play online games on school days.

The Ministry of Health’s Food Hygiene and Safety Department of Vietnam announced that it has not found baby bottles containing bisphenol-A.

The first 400MW turbine at Son La Hydroelectric Power Plant's has gone live, officially plugging into the national electricity grid.

South Korea ordered civilians on five border islands to take shelter ahead of a live-fire exercise Monday despite North Korean threats of deadly retaliation.

Vietnam's Nha Trang Bay is considered among the world's most beautiful bays and best beaches, wrote Expedia.com.au.

Vietnam has signed an international convention on child adoption which is currently ratified by 81 countries.

A massive pipeline blast killed 27 people in central Mexico on Sunday, engulfing dozens of homes in a raging inferno that one official described as "rivers of fire in the streets."

An entertainment and food centre of Vietnam named Kowloon International opened in Moscow on Dec. 18.