VIETNAM TODAY

While the northern-central coastal region has been described as now being safe for tourism activities since the Formosa environmental disaster, further research will be necessary before seafood from the area are safe, an official said.

The PetroVietnam Drilling and Well Services Corporation will provide a drilling rig and drilling related services for Myanmar from October, said PetroVietnam on August 22.

The head of Central Institute for Economic Management has called the Ministry of Industry and Trade "shameless" after it claimed the promotion of former minister's son had followed all procedures.

Vietnam’s stock market had a second week of gains, buoyed by local investor optimism about a further increase, though continuous net selling by foreign investors has posed a threat to the market’s growth.

A powerful typhoon was on course for a direct hit on Tokyo today, with nearly 400 flights grounded due to heavy rain and strong winds.

Nha Trang Bay Management Board has proposed strict fines for people caught illegally fishing in Hon Mun Marine Protected Area.

Hundreds of LGBT people in Vietnam and their supporters organised a bicycle tour in Hanoi to oppose discrimination against the LGBT community.

A woman in Quang Tri Province is in need of help to treat her heart disease and keep her children in school.

Core inflation this year could increase slightly to roughly 2% from 1.7% last year, the National Financial Supervisory Commission (NFSC) forecast.

More than 200 photos, documents and objects, many of them featuring the period when Vietnamese revolutionary leader Nguyễn Ái Quốc, later President Hồ Chí Minh, worked in France (1911-41) are on display in downtown Hanoi.

Philippine forces have killed three suspected sympathizers of the Islamic State group but failed to capture their leader in a clash in the country's south, an army official said Sunday.

Over 4,300 children in t he central province of Thua Thien – Hue were taught swimming skills during this year’s summer under a project funded by the Nordic Assistance to Vietnam/ Norwegian Church Aids.

The number of deaths from storm Dianmu, which swept through the northern region on August 19, has climbed to seven as of August 21, according to the Office of the Central Steering Committee on Disaster Prevention and Control.

The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers has predicted that turnover of the country's seafood exports will reach $7 billion for the year.

Numerous Vietnamese and international designers will gather at the Vietnam International Fashion Week, to be held in Hanoi for the first time from November 1-6.

A number of airlines have launched promotion programs this autumn for both domestic and international flights.

Since 2010, Vietnam has discovered 172 cases of secrets exposed via the internet, including documents stamped as ‘top confidential’ and ‘confidential’.

Thousands of guns made hundreds of years ago are on display at a private weapons museum in the southern coastal city of Vung Tau.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has said the government always values ideas and suggestions contributed by overseas Vietnamese experts as the country is in the process of restructuring the economy and seeking deeper international integration.