VIETNAM TODAY

The Ho Chi Minh City’s People Committee has sent a proposal to the government on permitting Japanese investors to build an underground shopping center where an urban railway station is being built at Ben Thanh Market.

The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines plans to open a direct flight route to the US in 2018, said its General Director Duong Tri Thanh.

The Hanoi Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has fined a mobile phone retailer for its PR campaign which consisted of parading around a model in a glass box on a pick-up truck.

Ho Chi Minh City has been listed by CNN as one of the world’s 23 best street food destinations.

The registration for tours of Son Doong cave in 2017, one of the world’s largest caves, has just been opened for booking by Oxalis, limited to 500 visitors.

An online e-book trading platform is to be launched in Vietnam, the first of its kind in the country, with a view to boosting the local e-book market, according to the Sai Gon Giai phong (Liberated Saigon) daily.

China successfully launched the world’s first quantum satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern Gobi Desert at 1:40am on Tuesday.

A Ministry of Planning and Investment fund will finance small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with a total amount of 660 billion VND (29.3 million USD) this year, an official said.

The company of Otto De Jager, husband of Vietnamese diva Thu Minh, has countered the Gia Han Company with accusations of his own.

Mister Loo Company from Sweden has expressed interest in developing five-star public toilets in Ho Chi Minh City, according to newswire Zing.vn. The project’s proposed investment capital is between VND500 million ($22,419) and VND1 billion ($44,838) per single toilet.

An 81 year-old man in Bac Ninh Province, who was cleared of a murder charge after more than 40 years, has asked for compensation of USD550,000.

HCM City's authorities are considering cancelling the license for a USD3.5-billion Malaysian project to build an international university township due to its long delay.

The national futsal team has arrived in Spain to begin final preparations for the 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup running September 10 to October 1 in Colombia.

An Arab coalition air raid hit a Yemeni hospital on Monday, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than 19, just 48 hours after strikes that killed children, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said.

Vice President of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations Don Tuan Phong has suggested US activists call on the US Government to pay more heed to decontaminating “environmental hot spots” in Vietnam and supporting local Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin victims.

The Management Board of Hoa Lo Prison historical relic site in Hanoi received valuable remembrances from the family of Water Eugene Wilber, a US pilot who was detained in the prison from 1968 to 1973.

Vietnamese cultural television channel NetViet - VTC10 has recently officially launched terrestrial digital broadcasting in the US state of California, under the network of television station Kaza TV - one of ten units with a maximum coverage of over

A draft law on the guard force was discussed for the first time at the second session of the 14th National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee that opened at the parliament’s headquarters in Hanoi on August 15.

Automobile firms have been rushing to boost productions in Vietnam to prepare for a boom in the local market which is forecast to soon surpass Malaysia and Singapore.