VIETNAM TODAY

A veteran Islamist militant blamed for masterminding an Algerian gas field attack and running smuggling routes across North Africa, has been killed in a US air strike inside Libya, Libya’s recognised government said.

Officials and experts of the Ministry of Transport want to develop a public inter-province bus network to curb the expansion of unlicensed bus operations.

The first eco-plastic plant in Vietnam will be built in the Mekong Delta province of Long An, said Nguyen Hoang Duy, Head of Vietnam Plastic House Co Ltd, on Wednesday.

The American-Vietnam War meant loss and pain for both civilians and soldiers on all sides. The lens of wartime photojournalists captured war's effects on US forces, as well as south and north Vietnamese soldiers.

Hoang Anh Tuan, director general, Vietnam Atomic Agency, tells Hanoi Moi (New Hanoi) that Vietnam will only develop its nuclear energy when conditions are mature.

Last year when Samsung Electronics announced plans to create a new US$3bn smartphone factory in the north-eastern province of Thai Nguyen, close to the capital city of Hanoi, many industry insiders were ecstatic.

Polish researchers, politicians and reporters as well as overseas Vietnamese in Poland gathered in a seminar in Warsaw on June 11 to discuss issues related to recent developments in the East Sea.

Heads of Vietnam Asset Management Company (VAMC) said they need more power instead of more money to deal with bank bad debt, because the legal framework is inadequate.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc confirmed the Government has been cautious in public debts management via stabilising the macro economy and improving the investment environment as he took the floor at the Q&A session of the ninth sitting

The 1st Asian Undergraduate Summit (AUS) bringing together undergraduate students of diverse disciplines and providing them with the opportunity to engage in meaningful academic, cultural, and social exchange will get underway on June 14-19 in HCM City.

More than 17,920 cars were sold in Vietnam in May, which were fewer than the month before, but still higher than the same period last year.

Vietnam needs to improve regulations governing marriages between Vietnamese brides and foreigners to prevent unwanted incidents, participants said at a conference on Thursday in Ba Ria – Vung Tau.

Police arrsted a woman in Hanoi on June 12 as a member of group using Facebook accounts for defamation against Vietnamese entrepreneurs and celebrities.

The U.S. House of Representatives sidetracked a high-profile White House-backed trade bill on Friday, a blow to a pending Asian trade deal and a humiliating defeat for President Barack Obama inflicted by members of his own party.

Tran Dac Phu, head of the Preventive Medicine Department, announced a range of activities in response to ASEAN Dengue Day (June 15), at a press conference in Ho Chi Minh City on June 12.

A string of exciting cultural and sports activities will be organised in the central coastal city of Nha Trang for the Nha Trang Sea Festival from July 11 to 14.

Authorities in South Korea temporarily closed two hospitals amid persistent fears over the MERS virus outbreak, which has killed 14 people through Saturday, though health officials continue to claim the outbreak has already peaked.

A severe drought, believed to have begun last year, was likely to continue till the middle of September throughout central Vietnam, the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting (NCHMF) reported.

Vietnam has so far taken 61 gold medals at the ongoing 28th Southeast Asian Games in Singapore after athletics, shooting and taekwondo added to the pile.