VIETNAM TODAY

Individuals and organisations that import waste materials for production purposes must pay security deposits up to 20 per cent of the imported goods' value from the middle of next month.

A laser show at the Ha Noi Opera House will open the 2015 Europe Days on Friday night.

While schools wait for a final enrollment scheme, the race among parents to find a place for their children at a top junior high school in Hanoi has started to heat up.

Vietnam's credit growth rate reached 2.78 percent in the first four months this year – the highest in three years, according to the National Finance Supervision Council (NFSC).

The Chairman of the Sub-committee on Asia and the Pacific under the US House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee Matt Salmon met with the Vietnamese National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung in Hanoi on May 6.

In the four months leading up to May, foreign countries have been increasing the number of Vietnamese guest workers opening the door to broader job opportunities, according to the Overseas Labour Management Department.

Concerned individuals and organisations are offering their comments on a draft of 45 criteria for evaluating the quality of English textbooks for primary to high school education nationwide.

Inflation this year will fluctuate at about 3 per cent due to adjustments in public services, taxes and fees, the Vietnam Institute for Economic and Policy Research (VEPR) has forecast.

Visitors to beaches in central Danang City reported the shoreline covered in dead jellyfish.

Budget airline VietJet Air will officially open its Haiphong-Da nang flight route on June 1.

The sixth international conference on Vetiver grass with the theme “Vetiver System: Empowering Sustainable Development” opened on May 6 in central Danang City.

The Germanwings co-pilot suspected of deliberately crashing a jet in the Alps in March practised entering the fatal descent settings on the previous, outbound flight, investigators said.

Many general school teachers and university lecturers were recently found as not having education degrees required for their jobs, while they have been working on posts for many years.

Vietnam has the fourth highest number of clean development mechanism (CDM) projects in the world and it has received the ninth highest number of certified emissions reduction (CER) units.

The Ben En National Park, one of the most relaxing parks in northern Vietnam, is home to valuable and rare species of animals and birds, such as red wolf, black gibbon, great hornbill, gayal, tibetan bear, red-face monkey, elephant,

About 2,000 children die in traffic accidents in Vietnam every year, and one of the leading causes of mortality is not wearing crash helmets while traveling on motorbikes, a transport official has warned.

Danang might become the first city in the country to require inspection of motorbike exhaust fumes if the Vietnam Register's recent proposal to the Transport Ministry is approved.

The HCM City administration wants the Government to seek approval from the National Assembly for Metro Line No 5 linking Bay Hien Intersection in Tan Binh District with Sai Gon Bridge in Binh Thanh District.

A litre of petrol has been increased by VND1,950 following a joint decision by the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Industry and Trade.