VIETNAM TODAY

The Moc Chau National Tourism Complex will be developed into a driving force for tourism development in the northern midland and mountainous regions.

The Hanoi People’s Committee has decided to set up a boat racing club at West Lake, as part of plans to promote tourism in the area in particular and the capital in general.

Google has blocked 1,500 clips with bad contents posted in Youtube out of a list of 2,300 such clips provided by Vietnamese authorities, according to the Authority of Broadcasting and Electric Information under the Ministry of Information and Communications.

A Vietnamese man has been detained at Tan Son Nhat International Airport for smuggling 1.5 kilos of rhino horn into the country.

The investor in the Hanoi-Hai Phong Expressway, the Vietnam Infrastructure Development and Finance Investment JSC (VIDIFI), said they were incurring huge losses while the government support package is no where to be seen.

Eight groups of students from eight universities nationwide will gather for the final battle of the Digital Race, an annual technology contest organised by FPT, taking place this Wednesday at Cau Giay Stadium in Hanoi.

The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry will make five proposals to remove difficulties facing enterprises at a meeting with Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

From May 5, acts of delivering advertisement brochures, if causing negative impacts on social and traffic order and safety, shall be fined from VND 200,000 to VND 500,000.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged full support for Vietnam to host the APEC economic leaders’ meeting in Da Nang this November during his reception for Vietnamese Deputy PM, FM Pham Binh Minh in Tokyo on Monday.

Many visitors have complained about the environmental fees which may be charged at a cave on Ly Son Island off the central province of Quang Ngai.

The project “Support to the Up-Scaling of Wind Power in Vietnam funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) was reviewed in a seminar in Hanoi on May 8.

As asserted many times before, Vietnam has sufficient legal ground and historical evidence affirming its sovereignty over Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago, stated Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang.

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Monday the United States would closely examine proposed de-escalation zones aimed at easing Syria's civil war but warned "the devil's in the details" and that much needed to be worked out.

Vietnam International Group has received a US$1 million fund from a Singapore-based investment fund World Gold Investments PTE. LTD.

The Ministry of Finance has proposed to investigate the number of commercial areas that were converted from state-owned land.

Vietnam’s foreign direct investment (FDI) disbursement in the first four months of 2017 was estimated at USD4.8 billion, up 3.2% on-year, however, this is quite low compared with 12% growth over the same period of 2016.

A grandfather in Can Tho City is calling for help so that his grandchildren can continue studying after losing both parents.

Vietnam won one gold medal and three silver medals at the 18th Asian Physics Olympiad being held in Russia on May 1-9.