VIETNAM TODAY

Public preschools and primary schools in HCM City are struggling to recruit enough teachers to meet enrolment this year, according to the city’s Department of Education and Training.

Vietnam and Indonesia will set up a hotline to handle emerging incidents at sea as agreed during a visit to Indonesia by Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Vu Van Tam.

Police identified a Thai man on August 19 as a suspect in their investigation into attacks that killed four people and wounded dozens in a wave of bombings in Thailand's south a week ago.

The international religious freedom report for 2015, issued by the US Department of State, continued to include some biased comments and wrong quotations on religious situation in Vietnam.

Concerns about environmental pollution in Vietnam National Chemical Group’s DAP Dinh Vu Plant in Haiphong city were deepened when the local authorities’ investigation uncovered environmental violations during its operations.

HCM City will re-establish street crime teams from now to the year-end and the model will be piloted in some districts first.

A programme entitled ‘Travelling to the Root – Experiencing Vietnam’s intangible cultural heritages’ was launched by the Hanoi Cultural Fund.

Lao Cai Province’s authorities have urged the government to quickly build a line to connect to China's Sanai Station to improve the provincial economy.

Vietnamese students were presented with four medals, including two golds, at the 28th International Informatics Olympiad recently held in Russia.

The Animals Asia Foundation has transferred a sun bear in captivity for seven years since being a cub in the northern province of Nam Dinh, to the Tam Dao Bear Rescue Centre.

External activities need to be further improved in order to defend the country’s supreme interests, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh has said in an interview granted to the media.

A man has just been banned from flights for six months after slapping a Vietnam Airlines stewardess following his suspicion of her stealing his phone.

A group of seven young Vietnamese pianists (ages 9-18) have won 25 awards at two piano contests in California, the US.

The northern province of Quang Ninh is bracing for storm Dianmu, the third of its kind this year, as it is moving nearer to the mainland, bringing torrential rain.

Police of Yen Bai province has started legal proceedings over a serious shooting that killed three senior officials.

As of August 19, Vietnam was ranked 45th in the medal table of the Rio 2016 Olympics in Brazil with one gold and one silver, both won by shooter Hoang Xuan Vinh.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc's apology for his motorcade’s entry into a pedestrian street in the UNESCO World Heritage site of Hoi An received a warm welcome from the public.

The Vietnam-Eurasia Economic Union Free Trade Agreement will take effect on October 5, 2016, according to an announcement released by the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Hundreds of people have run out to the streets in HCM City as they tried to collect money thrown out by local people for the dead spirits during the Vu Lan Festival.