VIETNAM TODAY

TOKYO: A driver who was allegedly playing Pokemon Go when he hit and killed a woman in Japan has been arrested, police said on Wednesday (Aug 24).

A businesswoman has attacked the Vietnam Prosperity Joint-Stock Commercial Bank after an employee stole USD1.2m from her account and the bank made no attempt to help her.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked the US-ASEAN Business Council (US-ABC) to help Vietnamese enterprises improve their competitiveness and advise his Government on steering the national development.

The Graffiti Festival 2016, the first of its kind held in Vietnam, will be organised on August 28.

Defence cooperation has become one of the pillars in the strategic partnership between Vietnam and France and will be broadened in the coming time, President Tran Dai Quang has stated.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc showed his support for cooperation in satellite technology, aviation, railways development in Hanoi, education and culture with France at his meeting French Ambassador to Vietnam Jean Noel Poirier in Hanoi on August 25.

About 150 Vietnamese workers have been arrested after South Korean authorities started the search for foreigners illegally living and working in the country.

Hanoi authorities have decided to extend opening hours until just 2 am for restaurants and bars starting from September 1.

Vietnamese pop singer Noo Phuoc Thinh will represent Vietnam to attend Asian Song Festival scheduled to take place on October 9 in the Republic of Korea.

Free wireless Internet (wifi) signals will be provided along the pedestrian streets around the Hoan Kiem Lake according to the local Department of Information and Communications.

Vietnam’s August consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.1% against July, up 2.58% over the same period last year, posting the lowest increase since February this year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

The results of tests on seafood caught in the four central coastal provinces affected by the mass fish deaths in April will be announced in early September, according to the Health Ministry’s Food Safety Department.

The world's first self-driving taxis will be picking up passengers in Singapore starting Thursday.

Rescue workers surveyed the damage Thursday after a powerful earthquake shook Myanmar, killing at least four people and damaging 185 ancient Buddhist pagodas in the former capital of Bagan, a major tourist site.

The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) signed an agreement with 32 central and southern provinces and cities for creating a business-friendly environment at a ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City, on August 24.

The recent murder of two leading politicians in Yen Bai Province by a chief forest ranger once again revealed weapon management loopholes in Vietnam.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) has proposed that Agribank be equitized by 2020 as part of restructuring the financial market and completing the legal framework for the monetary and banking system.

According to the laws on housing, all business activities must be moved out of residential apartments by June 30 but the local authorities of Hanoi are still struggling to implement the laws.

Korean pop idol and actor Rain will return to Vietnam to perform in a national pageant at Phú Thọ Gymnasium in HCM City’s District 11.