VIETNAM TODAY

All four members of a family in Long An province are suffering from various illnesses from degenerative spine to cancer.

Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh has demanded an inspection into the removal of 100 tombs by a company in Khanh Hoa Province to build a resort project.

Japan's troubled 2020 Olympics will be a success, Tokyo's new governor insisted Thursday, after she and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe put aside political differences for the good of the Games.

The Van Thinh Phat Investment Group (VTP Group) on August 3 signed an investment cooperation agreement with Malaysian investors Pavilion Group and Genting Group to develop a park and housing complex in Ho Chi Minh City.

The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Wednesday to discuss Pyongyang's launch of a ballistic missile that for the first time landed in Japanese-controlled waters.

The prime minister has approved investment for phase 2 of the secondary education development programme, aimed at enhancing conditions for ensuring the quality of secondary education.

Ho Chi Minh City’s leaders and newly-elected lawmakers began a three-day session of the People’s Council to discuss socio-economic targets amid many complaints about extended flooding, traffic jams and pollution.

Chairman of the Vietnam Association of Foreign Invested Enterprises, Nguyen Mai has said that Vietnam should stop calling investments for cement, steel and oil refinery projects due to their environmental pollution and ineffective business.

The Hanoi University (HANU) and Italy’s Niccolo Cusano University (UniCusano) will enhance student exchanges as part of an agreement reached recently.

Ambassador Pham Sanh Chau, head of the Foreign Ministry's Culture and UNESCO Department, has been nominated for the director-general position of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for the 2017-2021 tenure.

Police in the central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế have seized hundreds of maps that indicated the East Sea (South China Sea) was named the "China Sea".

Two people were killed and three others injured when a four-storey old building suddenly collapsed at 3.15 on August 4 at 43 Cua Bac street in Hanoi.

Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) are among the 26 newly-named streets which have just been announced by Hanoi municipal People's Council.

The National Wage Council has agreed on a 7.3% increase to the minimum wage in 2017 and will submit the proposal to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc for approval.

A week on elephant protection was launched in Nong Son district, the central province of Quang Nam on August 3 with myriad activities.

An exhibition themed ‘Agent Orange (AO) – Sense and Justice’ opened at the Vietnam Military History Museum as a part of activities to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin catastrophe in Vietnam (August 10, 1961-2016).

The internet connection to overseas servers of all service providers in Vietnam will be slow for a couple of days as storms have hindered repairs to the intercontinental cable.

An Emirates flight from India with 300 people on board crash landed at Dubai's main airport Wednesday, sending black smoke billowing into the air and halting all traffic at the Middle East's busiest airport. There were no fatalities and

Foreign investors have delayed or cancelled multi-billion-dollar oil refinery projects in Vietnam partially due to the concern of the slump in global oil prices.