VIETNAM TODAY

A European festival themed “The Colour of Summer” is taking place in Ba Na Hills tourist area in central Da Nang City.

Accused of urinating in public, spitting on the street, or kicking a sacred temple bell -- free-spending Chinese tourists are receiving a mixed welcome as their soaring numbers help the kingdom's creaking economy.

The People's Committee of the mountainous Lao Cai province has approved a plan to build a link road from Noi Bai – Lao Cai Highway to Sapa district, officials said last week.

This week, the official U.S. visit of Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, will mark yet another milestone in the relations between our countries.

New measures to protect sea turtles are needed as their number has fallen sharply because of human impact and economic development, delegates heard at a conference on July 3 in the central province of Ninh Thuan.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and a high-ranking delegation left Hanoi on the night of July 5 for an official visit to the US from July 6-10.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong is due to pay an official visit to the US on July 6-10 at the invitation of the US government. On the eve of the visit, a Washington-based Radio Voice of Vietnam reporter

Representatives of Eastern International University (EIU) in southern Binh Duong province and Portland State University (PSU) in the US’s Oregon State signed a memorandum of understanding on granting scholarships to Vietnamese students to learn at the PSU on July 3.

As many as 31 Vietnamese, French and French-Vietnamese associations and organisations have signed a petition expressing their concerns over China’s recent actions that increased tensions in the East Sea.

Leaders from the five Mekong sub-regional nations and Japan have approved the Tokyo Strategy 2015 with an overall goal for the 2016-2018 Mekong-Japan cooperation.

Japan said on Saturday it would extend around $6 billion in development aid to Mekong region countries, as China prepares to launch a new institutional lender seen as encroaching on the regional clout of Tokyo and ally Washington.

The National Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT) introduced the “Red Journey 2015” blood donation campaign on July 3 in Ho Chi Minh City.

Leaders from five nations in the Greater Mekong Sub-region and 200 Japanese businesses joined an Economic Forum on the sidelines of the 7th Mekong-Japan Summit Meeting.

The central Quang Ngai Province's forest management department began legal procedures today to shift a grey-shanked douc langur to the northern Ninh Binh Province's Cuc Phuong Endangered Primate Rescue Centre.

A tower of 86 storeys will be built in the Thu Thiem new urban area in HCM City, the highest of its kind in Vietnam.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong will make an official visit to the US from July 6-10, the Party Central Committee's Commission for External Relations announced.

Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia have launched a three-month crackdown on human trafficking along Vietnam’s borders through September, given the recent complications with the issue.

Vietnam’s national flag carrier, Vietnam Airlines, began using its brand-new A350-900XWB aircraft for flights between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City on July 3.

Tickets for the friendly match between Vietnam and English giant Manchester City on July 27 will sell at a record price.