VIETNAM TODAY

Local authorities are searching for a Vietnamese tourist who fell into Dam B'ri Waterfall in Bao Loc City, Lam Dong Province on August 26.

Saigon - Hanoi Bank (SHB) is no longer a shareholder of the Saigon - Hanoi Securities JSC (SHS), after selling its 4.8 per cent stake.

HCM City People’s Court sentenced a 33-year old Iranian man to 13 months in prison for theft from a local bank.

Minister-Chairman of the Government Office Mai Tien Dung has criticised the Ministry of Planning and Investment for not timely provide financial support to save the crops from drought and saltwater intrusion in the Mekong Delta.

Indonesian authorities have seized more than 650 critically endangered pangolins found hidden in freezers and arrested a man for allegedly breaking wildlife protection laws, police said Friday.

Three central localities of Thua Thien-Hue, Da Nang, and Quang Nam have jointly announced “The Essence of Vietnam” – a new brand for central coastal tourism.

The Transport Development and Strategy Institute under the Ministry of Transport (MoT) has recently proposed mobilizing over VND91 trillion ($4 billion) to develop infrastructure and logistics systems in the Mekong Delta during the 2016-2020 period.

Hung Nghiep Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Co. Ltd. has said that the firm will transfer the remaining half of the USD500 million pledged total compensation to the Vietnamese government on August 28.

For the first time the tourism sector in Ho Chi Minh City has cooperated with the railway sector to open railway tours over the National Day holiday on September 2 and in the final quarter of the year.

People in Vietnam now can conduct HIV tests by themselves, instead of having to come to medical centres.

An Air Force Academy plane from Nha Trang City crashed in a field in Tuy Hoa City, Phu Yen Province on August 26 during training.

Authorities at agencies managing heritage sites should change their mindset in order to better conserve relics recognised as heritage sites, experts have said.

The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) is seeking the government's help to get compensation from Formosa for its members.

Air pollution in Singapore rose to the "unhealthy" level on Friday as acrid smoke drifted over the island from fires on Indonesia's Sumatra island, the city-state's National Environment Agency (NEA) said, in a repeat of an annual crisis.

A meeting was held in Hanoi on August 25 by the Korean Cultural Centre in Vietnam, Samsung Life Insurance and Korea Foundation for Women to review a project in support of children of multicultural families to visit their maternal homeland.

An old couple in Bac Ninh Province is in need of help to raise three grandchildren after their father abandoned them and their mother died.

The US airline JetBlue will make the first regular commercial flight between the United States and Cuba in more than half a century next Wednesday, the Cuban authorities said on Thursday.

Chinese Ambassador to Vietnam Hong Xiaoyong has stated that the military relationship is an important pillar of the Vietnam-China comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership.

The authorities in Mekong Delta region are struggling to deal with river bank and coastal erosion which is threatening the lives of many people.