VIETNAM TODAY

The Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) hopes to increase cooperation and experience exchanges with the Vietnam Air Force, a Malaysian official has said.

Participants at an international workshop in Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa province, once again underscored the necessity of maintaining peace and stability in the East Sea.

The Tien and Hau rivers in the Mekong Delta have become deeper in recent years instead of having silt build-up like in years past, experts have said.

Ethnics are given a strategic priority in the national policy on national great unity and policies for them should keep abreast with reality in their areas, asserted Head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Mass Mobilisation Truong Thi Mai.

A photo campaign entitled “Super Selfie” has been launched with a view of promoting Vietnam’s landscapes and boosting tourism.

Many people in Danang City have complained that beaches are being blocked from public access by abandoned or stagnant projects.

TOKYO: A safari park employee in Japan died Tuesday (Aug 16) after being attacked by a bear which had somehow climbed into her car, local officials and police said.

At least 12 people have died after drinking bootleg liquor in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, police said Wednesday.

An oil tanker carrying 900,000 liters of diesel has been hijacked and taken into Indonesian waters, Malaysian maritime authorities said on Tuesday.

DTiNews readers have donated USD7,230 to a young girl in in the central province of Ha Tinh who now has to take care of her younger brother and younger sister after their parents died.

A major woman culprit of a transnational child trafficking gang, Huang Qingheng, was executed by a court in southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Tuesday, according to Xinhua News Agency.

Foreign experts in non-governmental aid programs and projects and Vietnamese working at representative offices of the United Nations system in Vietnam enjoy personal income tax (PIT) exemption in Vietnam.

Hanoi spends up to USD31.2 million yearly on mowing grass and pruning plants, according to Hanoi People’s Committee Chairman Nguyen Duc Chung at a recent municipal meeting.

Three children have been killed by their mother who has just been arrested after a day fleeing into a forest in the northern province of Ha Giang.

The central city of Da Nang should roll out communication campaigns on dengue fever prevention on a larger scale and with diverse methods, focusing on densely-populated areas.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned on Tuesday of an unprecedented "humanitarian catastrophe" in Syria's Aleppo and urged Russia and the United States to quickly reach a deal on a ceasefire in the city and elsewhere in the country.

Up to nearly 70 tonnes of fish raised in floating cages along the Ma River in Thanh Hoa province have been found dead, causing major losses to local farmers.

South-central Phu Yen province should pay attention to medical tourism, offering treatment methods to cure illnesses via absorbing biological energy and universal energy, an official has said.

An international conference on the legal status of islands in international law and the practices on the East Sea is being held in Nha Trang City from August 16 to 18.