Fuel wholesalers could use up to VND200 for each litre of petroleum and VND180-160 for every litre of diesel and oil respectively from the price stabilisation fund to cover their losses and keep the current retail prices unchanged....
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung yesterday outlined the need to seek private as well as State investment to build new style rural areas....
President Truong Tan Sang yesterday clarified Viet Nam's stance on China's placement of an oil rig in Viet Nam's continental shelf....
The Presbyterian Church of Viet Nam held its second congress in HCM City yesterday to review its activities during the first tenure and plans for the next four years.<br />...
State media says Vietnam could suffer economically after protests against Chinese oil rig in disputed maritime zone China has castigated Vietnam over an outbreak of deadly protests against a Chinese oil rig in a disputed maritime zone the worst clashes between the two countries in more than three decades. On Friday, as the protests that have racked Vietnam over much of the past week began to abate,...
The capital is mapping out a plan to become a smarter city by applying information technology, said director of the city's Information and Communications Department director Phan Tu Lan....
South Korean women's team won the opening game of the Asian Football Confederation Women's Cup defeating Myanmar 12-0 in a totally one-sided match yesterday at the Thong Nhat Stadium in HCM City....
Brazil has faced a test of its security preparations for the World Cup as demonstrators aghast at the cost of the event joined protests and strikes in several major cities....
Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi looked set to sweep to victory in India's elections on Friday, riding a wave of public support for his message of jobs and development that has drowned out his past as a religious right-winger....
Divers recovered 10 more bodies from a sunken ferry in Bangladesh on Friday, bringing the death toll to 22, with scores more feared to have perished, police and officials said....
The third Documentaries and TV Reportage Festival begins tomorrow in HCM City....
The Thanh Hoa provincial authorities yesterday said that no trace of poison or heavy metals had been found in the water drunk by the workers of a footwear factory....
Operators of buses, coaches and trucks were ordered to equip their vehicles with black boxes by March 1. But while these boxes are intended to transmit data to monitors at a centre run by the Transport Ministry, about 6,000 vehicles have not yet satisfied this condition....
Viet Nam's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh yesterday held a phone conversation with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi....
Hai Phong voters yesterday told the Prime Minister, Nguyen Tan Dung, that they were angry at the erection of a Chinese oil rig in Viet Nam's exclusive economic zone....
China's energy needs and a weak Asean bloc are fuelling its aggressive pursuit of oil off the disputed Paracel Islands China's provocative decision to station a $1bn (£600m) deep-sea oil drilling rig in disputed waters 120 miles off Vietnam well within Hanoi's 200-mile exclusive economic zone, in clear breach of a 2011 bilateral maritime pact and in defiance of regional and international agreements...
Riots spread from south the central part of Vietnam as crowds set fire to industrial parks, sparked by rig in disputed territory At least 21 people were killed and nearly 100 injured in Vietnam on Thursday during violent protests against China in one of the deadliest confrontations between the two neighbours since 1979. Crowds set fire to industrial parks and factories, hunted down Chinese workers...
Beijing's top general says US is worsening South China Sea tensions as Chinese in Vietnam are attacked over oil rig Top military leaders of China and the US have exchanged firm warnings in Washington over the escalation of tensions in the South China Sea, where Beijing's deployment of an oil rig has sparked violence in Vietnam against Chinese people and foreign commercial interests. The US vice-president,...
A number of documents signed by Nguyen kings (1802-1945) stored at the National Archives Centre I, have been accorded heritage status by the United Nations Educational Scientific Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)....
A corner of the roof of Phu Van Lau, a pavilion monument standing in front of the Imperial Citadel in the former royal capital city of Hue, collapsed early yesterday morning (May 15)....