VIETNAM TODAY

The BKAV has been named the top Vietnamese technology brand for a fourth consecutive year, along with VNPT, VietinBank, SJC.

Touropia, which features the most amazing sights around the world divided into “best of” lists, has recently named Ha Long Bay as the third most ideal tourist attraction in Southeast Asia.

The American Red Cross (ARC) will continue cooperating with and assisting the Vietnam Red Cross (VRC) in humanitarian activities, said ARC Senior Vice President for International Operations Harold Brooks.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) has been intensifying inspections of “hot spot” areas in northern provinces of Thái Nguyên and Bắc Giang, and the central city of Đà Nẵng, where environmental pollution is said to be

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) is considering proposing the government cease the development of a pulp paper plant in the Mekong Delta’s Hau Giang province.

Foreign ministers from Japan and five Mekong river countries got together at the 9th Mekong-Japan Foreign Ministers’ Meeting held in Vientiane, Laos, on July 25, alongside the 49th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting (AMM-49).

Lawmakers have asked the government to provide a draft law on the right to protest for the National Assembly to discuss.

Legislators of the newly-formed National Assembly on Tuesday re-elected Mr. Nguyen Xuan Phuc as Prime Minister of Vietnam in the tenure 2016-2021 with 485 approval votes, or 98.18%.

Foreign direct investment (FDI) registered in HCM City has decreased by 65 percent year-on-year, according to the municipal Statistics Office.

Cam Ranh City's People Committee has decided to ban 22 floating restaurants from operating in Cam Ranh Bay due to safety concerns.

The first Tài Tử Music Festival for Children, to be held at HCM City’s Labour Cultural House next week, will include participants under 15 years old performing songs and instrumental pieces.

A young woman in the central province of Ha Tinh now has to take care of her younger brother and younger sister after their parents died.

An official in Ha Tinh Province is facing public criticism and a reprimand after the photo of him kissing the breast of a statue at a local tourism site went online.

National carrier Vietnam Airlines delayed a flight for 80 minutes to help transfer a South Korean man who was seriously injured after a traffic accident.

As many as 748 sets of remains of Vietnamese experts and volunteers have been repatriated from Cambodia during the 2015-2016 dry season, as heard at the 15th meeting of the Vietnamese and Cambodian special task committees in HCM City yesterday.

At least 19 people were killed when a knife-wielding man went on the rampage at a Japanese care centre for the mentally disabled on Tuesday, officials said.

The number of bodies of migrants recovered on a Libyan beach since the weekend has risen to 87, a media official from the coastal city of Sabratha said on Monday.

The first ever world Vietnamese traditional martial art championship will take place in HCM City from July 26-29 at the Phu Tho Gymnasium, HCM City, according to Hoang Vinh Giang, Chairman of the World Federation of Vietnamese Traditional Martial Arts.

Foreign ministers of ASEAN member states and China issued their joint statement on the full and effective implementation of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (internationally known as South China Sea) in Vientiane on