VIETNAM TODAY

The scale of Vietnamese businesses has decreased with the average registered capital of a newly-established firm till July this year being 6.2 billion VND (284,400 USD), reducing 0.2 percent over the same period last year.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung will pay an official visit to Malaysia from August 7-8 at the invitation of his Malaysian counterpart Najib Rajak.

US President Barack Obama will on Monday unveil what he called the "biggest, most important step we've ever taken" to fight climate change, a sensitive issue central to his legacy.

Plaintiff lawyers in the lawsuit against 26 US chemical companies over their supply of chemical toxins used during the Vietnam War have expressed their firm determination to follow the case, though it could last 20 years or longer.

Top Vietnamese female swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh Vien failed in the semi-final of the women's individual 200m medley of the 2015 World Swimming Championship in Kazan, Russia.

Ongoing rains and floods have left another seven dead or injured in the northern provinces of Dien Bien, Lai Chau and Son La, reported the Office of the National Steering Committee on Disaster Prevention and Control on August 2.

Vietnam has too many banks, with only a third of the country's 90m people using banking service, a Vietnamese American banking expert said.

The EVN has called for electricity conservation as some of its thermal power plants are facing difficulties due to the drop in coal production because of flooding in Quang Ninh Province.

Nearly 8,000 people participated in a walk for Agent Orange (AO) victims at the Dam Sen Park in Ho Chi Minh City on August 2 as the designated date for supporting sufferers (August 10) approaches.

The Committee of Permanent Representatives in ASEAN convened a meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on August 1 to prepare for the 48th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting and related meetings which will be organised from August 1 to 6.

All four Vietnamese students won medals, including one gold and three silvers, at the freshly-ended International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) 2015 in Kazakhstan.

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) said on July 31 that it will continue to fund a technical assistance project to enhance the efficiency of the Vietnam Automated Cargo and Port Consolidated System and the Vietnam Customs Information System (VNACCS/VCIS).

Jubilant crowds celebrated Saturday as Bangladesh and India swapped tiny islands of land, ending one of the world's most intractable border disputes that has kept thousands in limbo for nearly seven decades.

The 22nd Open HCM City International Athletics Tournament will open on August 1 in HCM City.

Eleven Colombian military personnel were killed on Friday when their transport plane suffered motor failure and crashed in the northern province of Cesar, killing all on board, according to a statement from the Air Force.

Deputy Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People Committee Le Thanh Liem on July 31 received a United Arab Emirates business group seeking investment cooperation opportunities in the southern city.

A new museum project in HCM City has been met with skepticism and criticism as there are already too few visitors and too few artifacts for the number of museums the city already has.

The 2015 socio-economic goals are feasible based on the past seven-month performance and provided efforts continue to be made, PM Nguyen Tan Dung said.