VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnam encourages Chinese businesses, including those from Fujian province, to invest in projects using high technology in the country, President Tran Dai Quang said at an economic-trade cooperation seminar on May 13.

The HCM City Department of Transport is considering building four smart parking lots, worth VNĐ170 billion (US$7.5 million), in the city’s downtown area, including Lam Sơn Square, 23/9 Park, Tao Đàn Park and Lê Văn Tám Park.

Hanoian parents face an annual headache of registering their children at public schools, and the school year 2017-18 is no different, with the number of public schools limited but the number of children at school age rocketing in the city.

In recent years, a model of mini water puppet stages has become popular with domestic and foreign audiences.

Leaders of parliaments in the Asia-Pacific region and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) took fact-finding trips around HCM City yesterday to learn about the impact of climate change.

A fast-moving wave of cyberattacks swept the globe Friday, apparently exploiting a flaw exposed in documents leaked from the US National Security Agency.

Stronger cooperation in all spheres between Vietnam and China is critical to each country’s development, bringing about economic benefits and reinforcing mutual trust and friendship between the two peoples, said President Tran Dai Quang.

Two foreign tourists have complained about being overcharged by a taxi driver in the tourist city of Dalat in Lam Dong Province.

Hanoi Party Secretary Hoang Trung Hai has proposed to expand the runways at Noi Bai Aiport to avoid the capacity problems experienced at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat Airport.

Hanoi authorities have turned down the proposal to build a huge turtle statue at Hoan Kiem Lake.

More than 50 sketches of women during the wars by 29 noted painters will be displayed between May 14 and 28 at the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum.

A poor man with three small children from Ede ethnic minority group in Dak Lak Province is calling for financial support to help treat his wife who has tuberculosis.

Nguyen Chi Vinh, standing member of the Central Military Commission and Deputy Defence Minister, met with Fan Changlong, Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission of China, in Beijing on May 12 in the framework of President Tran Dai

104 sets of skeletal remains of Vietnamese soldiers who died in Laos were returned to Nghe An Province on May 12.

In mid-April, 2017, an Australian real estate firm organised a Ho Chi Minh City-based meeting to showcase its deep gratitude to customers who received its consultancy and bought houses in Australia in 2016.

Vietnam is home to many natural features appropriate for adventure travel activities such as hiking, mountain climbing, car and motorbike off-road driving, canoeing and kayaking, surfing, parachuting and paragliding.

Agreement was not reached at closed meeting between tourism authorities in Danang City and leaders of the National Administration of Tourism over a master plan for developing Son Tra Peninsula.

Vietnam will get an additional loan of USD250 million from China for an urban railway project under an agreement signed in Beijing on May 11.

Many streets in Hanoi were left under water after heavy rain this morning, May 12.