VIETNAM TODAY

Japan on Sunday marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki that claimed more than 74,000 lives almost instantly, in one of the final chapters of World War II.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung held a dialogue with members of the ASEAN Business Club and representatives of the Malaysian business community to discuss investment opportunities in Vietnam.

A recent report showed that Vietnamese young people prefer to stay home and chat with friends on Facebook than meeting outside.

The World Bank has supported a project to build a medical waste treatment area with a total cost of VND120 billion (US$5.4 million) in the central province of Quang Ngai, health officials said.

Vietnamese astronomy enthusiasts will have a chance to observe the Perseid meteor shower, one of the two largest meteor showers this year.

Viet kieu (Overseas Vietnamese), who are intellectuals, experts and skilled workers, have been granted a tax exemption on used cars they bring to Viet Nam, according to a new Government decree.

Nearly 100 maps along with many documents, objects and publications proving Vietnam ’s sovereignty over Truong Sa (Spratly) and Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelagos are on display at an exhibition that opened on August 7 in Phan Rang-Thap Cham city,

HCM City has sought the Government's permission to earmark VND300 billion (US$13.8 million) a year for dredging the Soai Rap River, which connects the city with the East Sea.

Typhoon Soudelor made landfall in Taiwan in the early hours of Saturday, ripping up trees and tearing down billboards as it battered the island with fierce winds and torrential rain.

More than two thousand Iraqis in the northern province of Nineveh have been executed by Islamic State militants controlling the area, the defense minister said on Friday in a recorded statement.

Visiting US Secretary of State John Kerry has highlighted remarkable achievements of the Vietnam-US cooperation since the normalisation of relations in 1995, especially in education and trade, during a conference on 20 years of bilateral ties in Hanoi on

Deputy PM Pham Binh Minh had talks with visiting US Secretary of State John Kerry pledging to push forward with projects to decontaminate dioxin at Da Nang and Bien Hoa Airports.

The Vietnamese and Malaysian governments have issued a joint statement on framework for the bilateral strategic partnership.

The central province of Quang Ngai passed a project on August 7 to turn Ly Son Island into a sea preservation zone in an effort to develop the island sustainably.

The People’s Committee of central Quang Binh province said the registration for tours of Son Doong cave, one of the world’s largest caves, in 2016 is now open, limited to 500 visitors, the Hanoi Moi newspaper reported.

The harvest of longan approved for the country's first export consignment to the United States in Hanoi and the northern province of Hung Yen will finish in the next ten days, according to the agriculture ministry's Plant Protection Department.

The fourth round of negotiations over an agreement to protect tourism resources near Ban Gioc Waterfall between Viet Nam and China was held in Beijing from August 2 to 6.

Some 30,000 coal workers in northern Quang Ninh Province have had to stop work after the flooding shut down dozens of mines.

Flights between Viet Nam's southern Can Tho City and Bangkok were suspended yesterday as they were struggling to make money, Director of Vietravel company's southwest region Truong Van Vinh said.