VIETNAM TODAY

Starting July 11, non-Vietnamese citizens will be required to obtain permits from the Immigration Management Office of the Ministry of Public Security to enter certain areas along the border.

The death toll from a heatwave in southern Pakistan rose to 750 on Wednesday, but the scorching weather showed signs of easing, bringing some respite to the sweltering city of Karachi.

Safety is one of the factors that attract tourists. According to the Global Peace Index (GPI) 2015, released on June 17, Vietnam ranks 56th.

The National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT) has asked for blood donations, saying the blood bank had only a week's supply of blood left.

President Truong Tan Sang yesterday congratulated the nation's athletes for their achievements at the recently concluded Southeast Asian Games 28 in Singapore, saying they would motivate development of the sports sector in Vietnam.

Initiatives by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung at the seventh Cambodia-Laos-Myanmar-Vietnam (CLMV) Summit and the sixth Ayeyawady-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Co-operation Strategy (ACMECS) Summit were welcomed by member states.

Typhoon Kujira landed on the Quang Ninh-Thai Binh coast this noon, causing heavy rains and strong winds reaching 90km per hour.

The Ministry of Construction (MOC) has proposed using preferential loans from official development assistance (ODA) to build social housing projects.

Reportedly thousands of snakes have invaded HCM City, sending residents in outer suburbs and the inner-city into a panic as more than a hundred people have reportedly been bitten.

Nguyen Viet Chuc, former vice-chairman of the National Assembly Commission for Culture, Education, Youth and Children, spoke to Khoa hoc & Doi song (Science & Life) newspaper about Ha Noi civil-service exams.

One of Vietnam's leading musicians, Tran Van Khe, musicologist and Honorary Member of the International Music Council of Unesco, died June 24. He was 94.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Health organised an online meeting on June 23 with ASEAN member states, the Republic of Korea, Japan and China to share information on coping with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-Corona Virus (MERS-CoV).

At least one person has been killed and seven others seriously injured when a sleeper coach plunged off the Lo Xo pass in Quang Nam Province around noon yesterday.

The southern province of Tay Ninh has announced its master plan for developing the Mount Ba Den National Tourist Area through 2020.

The United States National Security Agency spied on French presidents Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande, WikiLeaks said in a press statement published on Tuesday, citing top secret intelligence reports and technical documents.

As many as 350 leaders from Southeast Asian countries, international businesses, financial institutions and agricultural associations gathered at a forum in Hanoi on June 23 to seek measures to form sustainable agriculture sectors in ASEAN member nations.

High-rise buildings and apartments are crowding small alleyways and residential areas, investors ignoring the huge pressure they are putting on already weak infrastructure.

Hundreds of tourists are stranded on islands in Quang Ninh Province as Tropical Storm Kajira closes in, authorities relocating them to safe areas and closing down shipping.

The National Assembly (NA) discussed draft Laws on Administrative Procedure (revised) in a plenary session on the morning of June 23.