VIETNAM TODAY

The official websites of the Miss World and Miss International pageants have recently introduced Vietnamese representatives to the two coming contests.

Reddish sea water has appeared along a three-kilometre beach in the central province of Ha Tinh.

Ho Chi Minh City, the largest financial centre and most populous locality in Vietnam, has been chosen as the most searched destination for Asia-Pacific tourists visiting the country in the first quarter of this year, according to the Netherland-based

The HCM City Real Estate Association believes that in addition to focusing on removing procedural obstacles, the city proposes that the Government need to supplement or increase preferential policies for social housing investors.

Ha Long city in the northern coastal province of Quang Ninh has just kicked off a campaign to thoroughly clean up and collect waste in Ha Long Bay.

Students and teachers at the Tri Le 4 Primary School in the central province of Nghe An are calling for financial help to build new facilities.

The central city of Danang's popular Son Tra Night Market will be closed and relocated.

Nearly 200 people joined firefighting efforts on Monday to control a large forest blaze in the northern province of Yen Bai.

The second Summer Yoga Festival is expected to attract approximately 1,500 practitioners as it is due to take place in Ha Long City of northern Quang Ninh province on May 25 - 26.

In its recent global research report titled “Vietnam – Q1 GDP to moderate amid rising inflation”, Standard Chartered Bank forecasts Vietnam’s Q1 GDP growth will moderate to a still-strong 6.1 per cent year-on-year (from 6.7 per cent in Q4).

Three Vietnamese donors with a rare blood type have helped save the life of a 64-year-old British man with immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP).

National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue affirmed that Vietnam attaches importance to developing its traditional friendship and multi-faceted cooperation with Finland.

VNDirect, the first online trading broker in Vietnam, said on March 25 that it has resolved a cyberattack by an international organisation on its system and has been making efforts to restore the entire system in order to limit

The UK’s Home Office on March 25 launched a social media campaign in Vietnam to deter migrants from coming to the UK illegally, following successful similar drives in Albania, France and Belgium.

At least 13 people were killed in the southern Philippines on Monday after a collision between a dump truck loaded with sand and a passenger van, local authorities said.

The Ministry of Health said that there is still a potential risk of avian flu infection in humans.

The Phu Yen Provincial People's Committee issued a VND3.40 billion fine for the Fococev Company for illegally discharging wastewater which caused environmental pollution.

A 4.0 magnitude earthquake occurred in Hanoi’s outlying district of My Duc on Monday morning.

Three members of a family in the southern province of Dong Nai have died of asphyxiation after entering a biogas facility at their pig farm on Monday morning.