VIETNAM TODAY

The annual Viet Nam Festival will be held in Yoyogi Park in the centre of Tokyo from June 13 to 14. Entitled Hand in Hand, it will include 103 booths displaying Vietnamese cuisine and handicrafts.

Residents of a commune in Quang Nam Province have halted work on the national highway due to a disagreement over land compensation.

Peace, stability, security and safety of navigation in the East Sea are the aspiration and common interest of the countries in the region and beyond, said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Hai Binh at a regular press briefing in Hanoi

Foreigners can extend their property ownership after their 50-year ownership expires under the Housing Law, but not for more than an additional 50 years.

The Hanoi Education and Training Department at the May 7 meeting officially instructed secondary schools to enroll students based on their records shown on school reports.

The country's consumer price index (CPI) this month is expected to be stable or slightly increase over the previous month due to balanced demand and supply as well as strengthened price stabilisation.

Vietnam's real estate market will likely yield better returns this year than the stock and gold markets, but investors should be cautious in the rebound, a leading economist said.

An increasing number of foreign giants are eying the beverage market in Vietnam due to the country’s young population boom and high demand for fizzy drinks.

Ha Noi's sewers and drains are said to be inadequate to cope with heavy flooding, likely to arrive with the coming storm season.

The death toll in a rubber slipper factory fire in a suburb of the Philippine capital climbed to at least 45 on Thursday with another 26 people still missing in the gutted building and feared dead, a local mayor said.

Health experts voiced concern that reduced funding from the State Budget and international donors would cause a lessening of efforts to prevent the spread of malaria in Viet Nam.

Scientist and experts have renewed their calls to the National Assembly and the Government to take prompt actions to save the Dong Nai River in Dong Nai Province.

The United States and Cuba will hold a new meeting in coming weeks in Washington on reopening embassies, the latest step in their historic rapprochement, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said Wednesday.

April was a positive month for Vietnamese auto sales, though carmakers have claimed difficulties conducting business in the country's unstable and undevel-oped automobile industry.

Ly Hoang Nam of Viet Nam has jumped ahead in the tennis world rankings, according to the latest Association of Tennis Professionals' release.

A number of accidents have occurred at urban railway projects in Hanoi recently, causing concern among the public about safety when passing through construction areas.

Vietnam Airport said it will invest VND3.2trn (USD152.4m) to build a new international terminal at Danang International Airport to meet demand from increasing passenger numbers.

Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday expressed pleasure in the flourishing strategic partnership between both nations.

The Australian Department of Agriculture has approved the importation of fresh lychees from Vietnam, reported the Australian press on May 12.