VIETNAM TODAY

The Indian Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare has announced that India officially eliminates the temporary ban on importing six Vietnamese agricultural products, including coffee beans, bamboo sticks, black pepper, cinnamon, beans and dragon fruit, according to the Vietnamese

Chefs from many countries attended the second Hoi An International Food Festival which opened at the An Hoi Sculpture Park Wednesday.

Internet management in Vietnam has been the key topic for discussion at the meeting between Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan and US ambassador to Vietnam, Ted Osius.

A VND136 billion (USD6 million) 780m concrete dyke to protect Hoi An was inaugurated on March 21.

The Miss ASEAN Friendship 2017 has been launched in Vietnam to search for the region's next beauty queen.

Two air traffic controllers at Cat Bi International Airport in Hai Phong City have been suspended from work for two months for falling asleep during work hours and leading to flight being forced to circle the airport.

A new partnership to benefit 45,000 Vietnamese factory workers has been launched between Marie Stopes International - an international not-for- profit reproductive health social business, the Pou Yuen Industrial Holdings Ltd, and the Australian government.

Vietnam has joined other 35 countries in the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition 2017 (LIMA 217), which opened at Mahsuri International Exhibition Centre, Langkawi, Malaysia on March 21.

Government officials say one student has died and 20 others were injured following a stampede during a morning bathroom break at an elementary school in central China on Wednesday.

A British-flagged cruise ship damaged more than 18,000 square meters (4.4 acres) of coral when it ran aground in waters popular with divers off Indonesia’s eastern province of Papua, government officials said on Wednesday.

The Mekong Delta is sinking 2.5cm every year because of ground water extraction and unreasonable planning and constructions on the surface.

Several officials proposed to tighten management on fishing and ban fishing activities during breeding season during a meeting on revising the law on fisheries.

Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan has called for US businesses’ engagement in providing technology and cooperating in building criteria for smart cities as well as local planning.

The Japanese Embassy in Vietnam held a signing ceremony in Hanoi on March 21 to grant non-refundable aid worth nearly US$2 million for 18 projects in 15 localities throughout Vietnam.

North Korea may have launched several missiles on Wednesday morning, Kyodo News reported, citing a Japanese government source.

Local authorities in Vietnam have warned about the large import of meat from Brazil following a recent rotten meat scandal in the South American country.

China’s Hangzhou Design and Planning Institute have been invited to participate in the planning scheme to develop the areas along the Red River.

Two Vietnamese technology start-ups, namely Haravan and ELSA Speak, were selected to participate in the Google Launched Accelerator programme and given US$50,000 in financial support from Google.

Wastewater treatment is an urgent issue of public concern, especially in the face of climate change and development of industrial parks and industrial clusters, authorities have said.