VIETNAM TODAY

Recent floods have left 24 dead and losses of VND783 billion (USD37.2 million) in the central and Central Highlands regions according to a report released Monday.

Singapore has deported the majority of the 70-odd foreigners it has investigated for suspected radicalism in the past two years, although none planned to carry out attacks in the city-state, the ministry of home affairs said on Monday.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc urged authorities of the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai to provide specific incentives for domestic and foreign investors during an investment promotion conference held in the locality on December 18.

Police have arrested a man suspected of robbing a bank in the central province of Thua-Thien Hue earlier this month.

Hanoi Department of Transport representatives, World Bank and international consultants and supervisors have trial run the first bus to check the finishing tasks of the Kim Ma-Yen Nghia rapid bus transit route.

A rainbow-headed snake, a tiny frog and a lizard with dragon-like horns are among more than 150 new species confirmed by scientists last year in the ecologically diverse but threatened Mekong region, researchers said.

Vietnam’s construction industry will grow by 6.3 per cent in real terms of 2017 and 6.1 per cent in 2018, according to Business Monitor International Research, a Fitch Group Company.

A nearly-blind mother in Thanh Hoa Province is in desperate need of financial support to treat her son's leukaemia as her husband is paralysed.

A technique for freezing to preserve red blood cells and a milk with high protein which is the first product made by a Vietnamese nutritionist are the two outstanding scientific research works awarded the KOVA Prize.

The first direct flight between Wuhan province, China, and Vietnam’s Central Highlands province of Lam Dong landed at Lien Khuong airport in the province on December 18.

Police in the north central province of Thanh Hoa have decided to launch criminal proceedings against a blogger for defaming Party and State leaders.

A grand ceremony was held by the CPV Central Committee, the National Assembly, the President, the Government, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee and Hanoi to mark the 70th anniversary of the National Resistance Day.

Danang and Hanoi will be the first two cities in Vietnam to launch open top buses for visitors wishing to take a city tour.

Japan has begun slaughtering about 210,000 farm birds in northern Hokkaido to contain another outbreak of a highly contagious strain of avian flu, an official said on Sunday.

Many shops on Hanoi’s Le Trong Tan Street have abandoned local authority dictated signage to improve businesses.

State-run Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) remains on top of the 500 largest Vietnamese enterprises list (VNR500) in 2016 in terms of revenue.

Thirteen people have died after an Indonesian military transport plane crashed in the east of the country on Sunday, officials said, marking yet another air accident for the armed forces.

The Vietnam government has lifted a 15-year ban on the import of French beef effective as of December 15, of last year.