VIETNAM TODAY

Nguyen Thi Huyen will be Vietnam's sole representative to compete at the Athletics World Championships in China next month.

Police in Thot Not District in Can Tho City have found an innovative way to prevent traffic violations and lower crash fatalities on local streets.

Two workers died and two escaped after a coal mine cave-in in Quang Ninh Province on July 22.

The number of tourist ships operating in Ha Long Bay would be reduced, chairman of the Quang Ninh People's Committee, Nguyen Duc Long, said at meeting on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked the Ministry of Finance and other relevant ministries to review tax policies and fix a new import tax rate for high-powered cars.

More than four years since Satoru Yamauchi abandoned his noodle restaurant to escape radiation spreading from the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, the Japanese government is almost ready to declare it safe to go home.

Vietnam will send a working group to the Philippines to learn tuna fishing and processing technologies, said Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Vu Van Tam.

All four Vietnamese students won prizes, including one silver and two bronze medals and one consolation prize, at the 26th International Biology Olympiad (IBO) in Aarhus City, Denmark.

Police have arrested the disgraced chairman of the national oil and gas giant, PetroVietnam, Nguyen Xuan Son, on economic charges.

Three officials from the Ministry of Construction have been dismissed or demoted while many others were reprimanded for irresponsibility in the recent Hanoi tree purge.

An air route connecting the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho and Thai capital city Bangkok was launched on July 21.

Restaurants in central Danang City are joining with local taxi companies to offer free rides home for those who drink beyond safe limits to drive.

The Republic of Korea (RoK)’s Ministry of Education will assist Vietnam and Uzbekistan in digitising classrooms by applying the most advanced technologies in teaching and learning, the ministry announced on July 21.

The sole pipeline carrying fresh water from the Da River to the capital city of Hanoi broke again at around noon on Tuesday.

A July 21 press conference in Hanoi announced that the Vietnamese Student Association in the UK (SVUK), the Vietnamese Student Association in the US, and VEOXBRIDGE charitable organisation will launch a series of events themed “Connecting Viet Youth 2015”.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung attended the debut of the National Committee for activities of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in 2017 in Hanoi on July 21.

Vietnam's Ministry of Defence and the Cambodian Royal Army inaugurated a complex comprising residential quarters, a three-storey workplace and a military store in Cambodia's Kandal province on July 20.

An information exhibition on AO/Dioxin opened at Quang Ninh museum on July 21 marking the 54th anniversary of AO disaster and day to remember AO victims in Vietnam.

An explosion in a park in China's eastern Shandong province has killed two people as well as the suspected attacker, the official Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.