VIETNAM TODAY

An Indian businessman who made headlines in 2013 for purchasing one of the world's most expensive shirts made entirely of gold has been beaten to death in western India, according to a report Friday.

As many as 110 outstanding overseas youths from 24 countries and territories worldwide offered incense and flowers to late General Vo Nguyen Giap in the central province of Quang Binh as part of the Summer Camp 2016 programme.

Minister of Information and Communications Trương Minh Tuấn urged enterprises to send recent reports on 4G testing results as the Government had policies to accelerate the licensing for 4G this year.

Vietnam has chosen July 30 as the National Day for Anti- Trafficking in Persons, according to a decision promulgated by the Prime Minister on May 10, 2016.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc had bilateral meetings with world leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Japanese PM Shinzo Abe, on the sidelines of the ongoing Asia-Europe Meeting Summit in Ulan Bator, Mongolia.

The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology in Hanoi has received the Vietnam’s Leading Tourist Destinations Award for the second time from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

The HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will perform operatic extracts by well-known composers at the HCM City Opera House on July 29.

Audience and experts have expressed doubts over the authenticity of the paintings that are on display at Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts, suggesting most of them are fakes.

The Vietnam Photography Association has just revoked the first prize of a Hanoi photo contest after finding the work was photoshopped.

Despite the authorities suspending operations and freezing bank accounts, they have still proved unable to collect VND434bn (USD19.7m) in back taxes from two gold mines in Quang Nam Province.

Vu Xuan Trung, a 12th grader from the northern province of Thai Binh, won the gold at the International Mathematical Olympiad 2016 (IMO 2016) in Hong Kong.

Vietnam’s economy is expected to expand by 6% or less in 2016, according to a report by the Vietnam Institute for Economic and Policy Research (VEPR).

A woman in Ha Giang Province has just given birth to conjoined twins who share a large part of their bodies.

The readers of DTiNews have donated nearly VND112m (USD5,000) to three sisters in Hanoi who lost both parents after a traffic accident.

Sympathy and condemnation for the Nice attack dominated the opening of an Asia Europe summit in Mongolia on Friday, drawing attention away from Beijing’s rejection of a tribunal ruling dismissing its extensive South China Sea claims.

Some 263 million children worldwide, nearly one in 10, do not go to school, posing a daunting hurdle to the United Nations' efforts to educate all children by 2030, the U.N.'s cultural agency UNESCO reported on Friday.

A Cambodia court has banned deputy opposition leader and lawmaker Kem Sokha from leaving the country since he has been charged with "refusal to appear" in a case involving his alleged mistress.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc had bilateral meetings with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev on July 14 on the sidelines of the 11th Asia-Europe Meeting Summit in Ulan Bator, Mongolia.

French President Francois Hollande said Thursday's lethal attack on the southern city of Nice was clearly a 'terrorist' assault and that the state of emergency imposed since a previous attack on Paris last November would be extended for another