VIETNAM TODAY

China launched a satellite to monitor its greenhouse gas emissions early on Thursday, the latest step in efforts to cut its carbon footprint, the official Xinhua news agency said.

DTiNews readers have funded treatment for a seven-year-old girl in Lang Son Province who is suffering from beta thalassemia.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has conducted a review and is making preparations for imposing safeguard duties on steel imports, after 18 domestic steel manufacturers called for assistance.

World Bank (WB) Country Director in Vietnam Ousmane Dione has pledged to assist Vietnam in fields of request and stand ready to offer policy consultations to the Vietnamese government.

Twenty-eight-year-old backpacker Hoàng Lê Giang will be the first Vietnamese to join a 300km winter adventure to the Artic circle next April hosted by the Fjällräven Polar website.

Vietnam and Cambodia issued a Joint Statement on the occasion of Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen’s official visit to Vietnam from December 20-21 at the invitation of his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

Vietnam accounts for 87 of the 163 new species of animals and plants discovered in the Greater Mekong region, according to a report released recently by the World Wide Fund for Nature.

A man in Bac Giang Province who was given death sentence four times for murder at several hearings has just been released after recent investigations proved that there was not enough evidence to convict him.

Vietnamese students have brought home a silver and four consolidation prizes at the 10th International Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad in Bhubaneswar city in India’s Odisha State.

Indonesian police said three suspected militants who were planning a holiday season suicide bombing were killed in a raid Wednesday on the outskirts of Jakarta in the second imminent attack to be foiled in less than two weeks.

The price of RON 92 petrol and E5 bio-fuel increased by 919 VND and 800 VND per litre respectively, on December 20.

A survey jointly released by the Ministry of Education and Training and UNICEF has revealed that Vietnamese students face many problems. Less than 20% of students always feel safe at school.

Many transgender people in HCM City are risking their lives using hormones sold illegally at local shops.

Vietnam will open its first ever astronomical observatory in Nha Trang next March, according to the Vietnam National Satellite Centre (VNSC).

Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình extended his Christmas wishes to Catholic and Protestant dignitaries and followers in HCM City yesterday.

Hanoi Department of Information and Communications announced the creation of a pedestrian book street in Hoan Kiem District.

A cold spell is expected to hit the northern region in the next two days with temperatures in mountainous areas falling to 13-16 degrees Celsius.

The Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh has a firm grip over the on-going reforms inside the ministry after a series of wrongful appointments by former Minister Vu Huy Hoang.

The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs has recently released a Circular guiding some articles of the Labor Code relating to foreign workers in Vietnam.