VIETNAM TODAY

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung emphasised Vietnam’s hope for increased cooperation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) while receiving IMF Deputy Managing Director Mitsuhiro Furusawa in Hanoi on June 12.

A ceremony to commence the construction of a statue of the late Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh was held in Russia's Ulyanovsk city, the birthplace of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, yesterday.

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

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Hanoi authorities began intensifying their efforts to prevent the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus from entering the city, which has already spread to some countries in Asia.

Local retail electricity price will be adjusted under a market mechanism by 2016, said Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang.

The Vietnamese Government has made efforts to reduce the rate of child labour through intensifying the education system and improving national laws in accordance with international labour standards.

Farmers in the drought-hit central southern province of Binh Dinh have abandoned thousands of hectares of ruined paddy and are feeding the dead plants to their cows.

Iraqi Shiite militias told FRANCE 24 they had retaken control of the centre of Baiji, home to Iraq’s largest oil refinery, after months of battling Islamic State group militants for control of the strategic city.

Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has required HCM City's People's Committee to submit in June reports on the implementation of flood prevention activities in the city.

Vietnam's tourism sector has many weak points, causing it to lag behind many regional competitors, said Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam.

Secondary schools in Hanoi are finding it hard to select the best students among thousands of primary school graduates with excellent marks.

Ten percent of Vietnam's children aged five to 17 work, one third of them more than 42 hours a week, because their families see no value in keeping them in school, an official from the International Labour Organisation said.

Do Thi Thao and Duong Van Thai completed their doubles, while the quartet runner broke a 24-year-old record in the women's 4x400m relay.

Vietnam has not recorded any cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus, Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Le Hai Binh told a regular press conference in Hanoi.

A master plan to conserve the environment and build infrastructure in Quang Binh Province's Phong Nha–Ke Bang National Park by 2030 has just been announced in Dong Hoi City.

Finding markets for farm produce continued to dominate yesterday's National Assembly question-and-answer session for the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Cao Duc Phat.

Transport Minister Dinh La Thang backed the purchase of 13 trains from China for the Cat Linh-Ha Dong urban railway project, at a cost of USD63m, despite public concerns about quality and safety.

The recent statement by Vietnam's Supreme Court that an innocent man in Bac Giang Province, who served 10 year's in prison after being wrongfully convicted for murder, should receive VND7.2bn compensation, has stirred up public controversy.