VIETNAM TODAY

The VTV international cycling tournament – Ton Hoa Sen Cup kicked off in Da Nang city on August 24, with Tran Nguyen Duy Nhan of the 7 Military Zone winning the yellow jersey of the first stage.

Hundreds of parents in Nghe An Province have gathered at a local primary school to protest against the Ministry of Education and Training's new Vietnam Escuela Nueva education programme.

Many enterprises in Quang Binh Province are struggling due to massive frozen fish inventories after buying fish from local fishermen affected by the recent fish deaths.

French President François Hollande will pay an official visit to Vietnam on September 5-7. This is the first trip to Vietnam by a French president in 12 years.

The grand finale of the 2016 Miss Vietnam beauty pageant will be held in Ho Chi Minh City on August 28, seeing the competition of 30 beauties from across the country.

The Red River is becoming increasingly polluted while local authorities are struggling to deal with the problems.

Hanoi will organise a ceremony at Van Mieu – Quoc Tu Giam (Literature Temple) in Hanoi on August 28 to honour 100 outstanding valedictorians from universities and institutes based in the capital in 2016.

A woman in Hanoi has been accused of hiring another person to cut off her hand and foot for USD159,000 in a fraudulent insurance claim after falling in debt.

Vietnam welcomed about 6.5 million foreign visitors in the first eight months of this year, a year on year increase of 25.4 percent, according to the National Administration of Tourism.

Vietnamese Ambassador to the US Pham Quang Vinh believes the relationship will increasingly develop. He spoke to reporters at the on-going 29th Diplomatic Conference in Hanoi.

Vietnam is likely to intensify scrutiny of income tax paid by foreign workers, a seminar heard in HCM City.

Overseas Vietnamese and locals in the Czech Republic met in Prague on August 23 to support the recent ruling from the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague, the Netherlands, on the Philippines’s lawsuit against China’s claims in

Nguyen Van Tan, owner of the Xin Chao Cafe in Ho Chi Minh City, said he feared a continued vendetta by the local police after several officers were fired for filing wrongful criminal charges against him.

More than 5,000 people of Vietnamese origin living on Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake have arrived in Vietnam paperless. Only 20 have been provided with Vietnamese citizenship.

North Korea on Wednesday test-fired a submarine-launched missile 500km towards Japan, which Japan said marked the first time a North Korean sub-launched missile had entered its air defence identification zone.

Hung Nghiep Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Co. Ltd, which was blamed for mass fish deaths along the central coast earlier this year, expects to fix all of its environmental protection problems by mid-2018.

Danang’s authorities have chosen red-shanked douc langurs as the city's symbol in the run-up to hosting the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in 2017.

The world’s second largest population of the critically endangered Delacour’s langur was recently discovered by Fauna & Flora International (FFI), giving fresh hope for one of the planet’s rarest species.

President Tran Dai Quang and his spouse will pay a State visit to Brunei from August 26-28 and to Singapore from August 28-30.