VIETNAM TODAY

On March 7, Hanoi held an urgent meeting to discuss measures on tightening control over alcohol production and business activities in the city.

The number of passengers at Cam Ranh International Airport has surged substantially in recent years while infrastructure fails to address the overload, according to central Khánh Hòa Province’s People’s Committee.

On March 6, two Chinese men who were found producing and using 160 fake ATM cards to steal money had their trial open at a court in Hanoi.

Japanese professor Masaaki Shimizu has been presented with the 2017 Balaban Award by the US-based Vietnamese Nom Preservation Foundation (VNPF) for his contributions to preserving Vietnam’s ancient script.

The UN Security Council on Tuesday strongly condemned North Korea's recent ballistic missile launches and expressed serious concern over Pyongyang's "increasingly destabilizing behavior."

Many experts said people in Vietnam are facing health risks from using alcohol that have soaked animals or herbal roots.

The Ho Chi Minh City Real Estate Association has sent a proposal for the development of the city’s real estate market in the 2017-2020 period to the city’s People’s Committee.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on March 7 said he instructed the country’s police to ban all citizens of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) from leaving Malaysia after a similar ban imposed by Pyongyang earlier.

A summit of the United Nations (UN) is scheduled to take place in Hanoi on March 7-9 to enhance cooperation in facilitating entrepot trade and implementing the 2030 agenda on sustainable development.

The International Football Federation (FIFA) has closed the list of 24 teams to compete in the 2017 FIFA U20 World Cup, to be hosted by the Republic of Korea (ROK), with Vietnam among Asia’s five representatives.

An overseas Vietnamese businessman will invest US$1 billion in Facecar, a Vietnamese car-hailing startup, according to local media.

Two more cases of A/H7N9 bird flu infection in humans were reported in China’s Zhuang Autonomous Region, near Vietnam’s northern mountainous provinces of Cao Bang and Ha Giang, according to the regional health and family planning commission.

Philippine police killed eight crime suspects in separate gunbattles and arrested 21 others in a northern province Tuesday, a day after police were allowed to rejoin the president's deadly anti-drug crackdown while also launching a drive against illegal guns.

Quang Ninh authorities have carried out various measures to prevent pollution and improve the landscape of Ha Long Bay.

Compared to 2016, banks are looking at brighter prospects in 2017 as many indexes look like they are on a trend of improvement.

The Vietnam Maritime Administration has warned ship owners and maritime transport companies of the increasing pirate attacks in Southeast Asian waters, particularly around East Sabah and the Southern Philippines.

Readers of Dantri/DTiNews have so far provided VND86 million (USD3,900) for a 17-month-old girl with heart disease in the central province of Ha Tinh.

A new school which was constructed with funding from the US Pacific Command’s Overseas Humanitarian Disaster Assistance and Civic Action Programme has just opened in the mountainous province of Ha Giang.

The combined chiefs of staff from Vietnam and Myanmar met on March 6 in Hanoi to discuss long-term strategic challenges the respective armed forces can expect to face in the future.