VIETNAM TODAY

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved another golf course, with a 36-hole golf course to be built in the northern province of Ha Nam.

The United Overseas Bank from Singapore has just became the ninth fully foreign-owned bank in Vietnam.

Chairman of Vietnam Railway Corporation Vu Anh Minh spoke about the VND7trn (USD309m) plan to upgrade the sector's infrastructure for the 2017-2021 period. Minh said he had asked the Ministry of Transport to submit the plan for prime ministerial approval.

Five people including a Philippine police officer were killed Tuesday in clashes with 10 suspected members of the Abu Sayyaf kidnap group on the resort island of Bohol, authorities said.

Nearly 20 universities in the US have invited Vietnam’s top swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh Vien for study even with their full scholarship, said the Vietnam Water Sports Association’s General Secretary Dinh Viet Hung.

Paperwork is being prepared for Ba Be-Na Hang natural heritage site in the northern provinces of Bac Kan and Tuyen Quang to apply for UNESCO recognition as a world heritage site.

Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh has urged the Ministry of Public Security to investigate the illegal sand extraction at Cua Dai Beach in the central province of Quang Nam.

The international internet connection in Vietnam is working at normal speed once again after the cable connecting Southeast Asia to the US was rewired on Saturday.

Bien Ban Chien Tranh 1-2-3-4.75’ (A War Account January-April, 1975), a historical novel by Vietnamese writer-journalist, Tran Mai Hanh, was recently released in English by the National Political Publishing House-The Truth.

The Vietnamese Government always attaches importance to human health protection and hopes to receive more support from the World Health Organization (WHO), said PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

Ho Chi Minh City’s office market is expected to have over 180,000 sq m of new supply in the pipeline, of which more than half will be concentrated in the central business district, according to Cushman & Wakefield Vietnam’s

Nearly 2,000 students in HCM City on Sunday joined the Safe Steps Initiative which was intended to raise people's awareness about road traffic safety in Vietnam.

Weak English skills are a major problem for university students, with many of them unable to graduate despite good results in their majors.

HCM City People’s Committee has called on departments of transport, natural resources and environment and district-level People’s Committees to facilitate the city’s first two river bus routes.

A requiem to pray for Vietnamese soldiers, who died during a battle to defend Gac Ma island in Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago 29 years ago, was held in Phung Nguyen pagoda in Seoul, the Republic of Korea (RoK)

Malaysian authorities have seized about $3.1 million worth of rhinoceros horns flown in from Mozambique via Qatar, the latest seizure in Asia of products from endangered species to feed demand for traditional remedies, officials said on Monday.

A transformation of Vietnam’s agriculture sector is vital for lifting growth and enabling Vietnam to graduate to upper-middle-income status, the Asian Development Bank said in a new report.

Three siblings in Thanh Hoa Province have to depend on ill grandparents after their father died and mother left them.

Many Hanoians have expressed anger at a proposal by an investor to fill in the Thanh Cong Lake to use land for a resettlement building.