VIETNAM TODAY

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has proposed to the Prime Minister to raise forest environment service fees on companies producing drinking water and hydroelectricity.

The ASEAN Secretariat has announced a new programme of work to strengthen close coordination between the Australia-Asia Programme to Combat Trafficking in Persons (AAPTIP) and ASEAN member countries and the Secretariat.

As part of activities during his visit to the US, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong met with US Trade Representative Michael Froman on July 6 in Washington D.C. (local time) to discuss orientations

Travellers to Hanoi during the first six months of this year reached around 10 million, up 4% from the same period last year, according to the municipal Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Real estate developers and brokers in HCM City are misleading investors with false information to promote sales.

Buoyed by a landmark US Supreme Court ruling, a prominent South Korean gay rights campaigner and movie director is suing officials for refusing to recognise his 2013 same-sex marriage.

A family of six was murdered in their home July 7 in Minh Hung Commune, Chon Thanh District, Binh Phuoc Province, police said.

Party leader Nguyen Phu Trong and US Trade Representative Michael Froman expressed a desire to accelerate an early conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations at a July 6 meeting as part of Trong's ongoing trip to the US

Tropical storm Egay has brought flooding, stranded passengers in several ports, cut power supply, and caused the canceling of domestic flights in the Philippines.

The first trial flight linking the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho and Thailand ’s Bangkok is scheduled to take off on July 21, announced the Can Tho People’s Committee on July 6.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and the Vietnamese delegation arrived at Andrews military airport in Washington D.C at 8am of July 6 (local time), starting his official visit to the US at the invitation of the US administration.

The 22nd Green Summer Campaign aimed at boosting widespread youth volunteer activities throughout the nation kicked off on July 6 in Ho Chi Minh City at a launching ceremony attended by 1,400 young people.

Ho Chi Minh City has enjoyed a boom in foreign direct investment since early this year, luring 300 new projects totally capitalized at more than US$2 billion.

On July 6, a tropical storm is moving into the northwest waters of the Philippines’ Luzon island and will bring sustained wind gusting up to 8-12 category to the northeast of the East Sea, according to the National Centre

The Philippines on July 6 confirmed the country’s second case of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome in a 36 year-old visitor travelling from Dubai.

A bomb fell from an Iraqi Sukhoi warplane and exploded in eastern Baghdad on Monday because of a "technical problem", killing at least seven people, security and medical officials said.

Sapa Town in Lao Cai Province turned cold July 6 after a prolonged heat wave in northern Vietnam, as temperature dropped to 12C, the lowest summer measure in 10 years.

The transport department of Kon Tum Province in the Central Highlands has said there are 108 unsafe suspension bridges in the province.

The HCM City People's Committee has rejected a petition by local authorities in a district to allow an unlicensed private children's shelter to obtain a licence and continue functioning.