VIETNAM TODAY

All hospitals across the nation should set up a separate section giving medical services to suspected cases of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in order to prevent the spread of the virus inside the hospitals, according to

Islamic Cham ethnic people in the central province of Binh Thuan on June 16 kicked off a wide range of activities to welcome their Ramuwan (New Year) festival, the biggest of its kind of the local Islamic community.

Cleaner air worldwide would save two million lives a year and not only in the most polluted countries, a study found.

Foreigners can buy a home in Vietnam, but inconsistent regulations make it hard for expatriates to realise their dream of living in Vietnam, and discourage foreign property investors choosing the country as a venue for development.

President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia will increase the size of its nuclear arsenal in 2015 by more than 40 intercontinental missiles.

Vietnam brought only 382 athletes to the 28th Southeast Asian Games 2015 in Singapore but won 73 gold medals, 53 silvers and 60 bronzes to finish the region’s biggest sports festival in the top three for the seventh time.

There will be no general admission for Iranian women at two upcoming male international volleyball matches but a small number will be granted special permission to watch, a security official said Tuesday.

State President Truong Tan Sang visited the first-ever exhibition of photos taken by the US’s Associated Press (AP) war photojournalists in Hanoi on June 15, a reminder of the war and the value of peace and independence.

Musicians from Vietnam, the US and the region will gather for a music festival and a lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-gender (LGBT) pride event in Hanoi on Saturday.

A plan to redesign the Sai Gon Zoo and Botanical Gardens by has been approved by the zoo management and will next be submitted to the HCM City Department of Urban Planning and Architecture.

Tree planting and care in big cities are under scrutiny after a sudden severe storm at the weekend hit Hanoi, bringing down more than 1,200 trees, many of them uprooted.

Vietnamese lychees will be further shipped to France and distributed through Thanh Binh Jeune Company's supermarkets in Paris and Lyon this year, General Director of the company Ngo Minh Duong said.

A part of older people in Vietnam are disadvantaged, living in difficulties and need a legal foundation to protect their rights.

Coastal areas of Hue and Danang City have been recognised as having high tourism potential, but real estate and resort projects have been abandoned for many years, wasting opportunities for investors wanting to become involved in growth of the areas.

International aid sources for Vietnam’s HIV/AIDS prevention and control programmes will peter out by 2017, posing huge challenges for the country's fight to curb and deal with the spread and treatment of the virus.

South Korea reported three more fatalities from MERS, taking the country's death toll from the outbreak to 19, and four new cases were confirmed, the health ministry said.

Vietnam won one more silver and three bronze medals to affirm the third place in medal tally at the Southeast Asian Games in Singapore yesterday.

In 2014, the Department of Molecular Biology and Clinical Institute of Tropical Medicine under the Army Hospital 108 discovered a method to detect the MERS-CoV virus in medical waste.

With its gigantic landscape and precious natural resources, Na Hang Eco-Tourism Zone in the highland district of the northern province of Tuyen Quang has become a popular tourism destination.