VIETNAM TODAY

Country Director of the World Bank for Vietnam Ousmane Dinoe has warned that Vietnam should change its agricultural techniques to ensure higher quality products and sustainable development.

A couple in Ninh Binh Province are pleading for help to treat their two children who have suffered from cerebral palsy after their first two children died after birth.

Some call it "ivory on wings," part of the bill of a critically endangered bird in Southeast Asia that is sought by poachers and carved into ornaments for illegal sale to Chinese buyers.

The PM has approved a master plan for development of Lao Cai province’s Sapa national tourism area until 2030, with the goal of developing unique and high-quality tourism products and attracting about 5.2 million arrivals of visitors.

Vietnamese and foreign fashion designers will introduce luxury and ready-to-wear clothing and accessories at the Elle Fashion Journey 2016 at HCM City’s Gem Centre this week.

National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan reiterated Vietnam’s consistent policy of giving priority to strengthening traditional friendship and multi-dimensional cooperation with Cambodia during a meeting with Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen in Phnom Penh on September 27.

Deputy PM Vuong Dinh Hue has ordered the State Audit Office of Vietnam to review enterprise values and deal with financial problems at Vietnam Southern Food Corporation Limited after it reported millions of USD in losses.

China shut schools and canceled dozens of flights as Typhoon Megi made landfall in the southern province of Fujian on Wednesday with winds of close to 120 km per hour (75 mph), the official Xinhua news agency said.

Vietnam will host the third ASEAN Broker Networking event in October, aiming to lure investment to the country’s stock market.

Thailand has proposed the imposition of anti-dumping duty at a maximum of 40.49 per cent on Vietnam’s steel products imported into the country.

A man who has been identified as a suspect in the killing of a 61-year old grandmother and her three grandchildren in the northern province of Quang Ninh has been arrested.

The latest report from the Foreign Investment Agency shows that real estate attracted $1 billion in FDI in the first nine months of this year, ranking it second behind manufacturing and processing.

The Vietnam Spring Summer 2017 Fashion Week will take place from September 29 to October 2 in Hanoi, bringing about 1,000 new designs by 27 designers from Vietnam, Malaysia and Italy to the catwalk.

As many as 340 Australian undergraduates will take short-term courses and internship programmes in Vietnam in 2017 as part of the New Colombo Plan Scholarship Programme according to the Australian Embassy.

Vietnam ranks second as an ideal destination for expats in ASEAN and 19th globally, according to HSBC’s Expat Explorer 2016 report.

Vietnam’s economy continues to perform well but is being hindered by a number of challenges, the Asian Development Bank said in a new report.

Heavy rains caused a historic flooding in HCM City yesterday, turning many streets into rivers.

Hà Tĩnh Province’s People’s Committee has received the certificate recognising Phúc Giang School’s woodblocks as a UNESCO Documentary Heritage by Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific.

The Justice Department on Monday unsealed criminal charges against a China-based company and four of its executives for conspiring to evade U.S. economic sanctions that target North Korea's nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles programs.