VIETNAM TODAY

Vice Director of the US organisation “Veterans for Peace (VFP)” Chuck Searcy and his delegation visited Vietnam to consolidate Vietnam – US cooperation in addressing the difficulties facing Agent Orange (AO)/Dioxin victims.

Vietnam will take drastic measures to protect the white-crest pheasant, an unique type of bird indigenous to Vietnam facing imminent extinction, with the intent to fully recover the species by 2030.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and his Norwegian counterpart Erna Solberg have agreed to encourage and back their enterprises and investors to explore collaboration opportunities, especially in prioritised areas of maritime economy, seafood, energy, information technology and green growth.

US enterprises have invested in 17 out of 21 industries in Vietnam, with the majority located in the accommodation and food service industry, the Foreign Investment Agency under the Ministry of Planning and Investment said.

Serious erosion is occurring along river banks in the central region of Vietnam due to illegal sand mining.

The Nghe An Province's environmental crimes division said this morning that it has detained a man for allegedly trafficking monkeys following a tip-off.

Vietnam was expected to maintain the second fastest growing economy in ASEAN-5 in 2015, according to the International Monetary Fund's latest World Economic Outlook.

Vietnam should legally recognise transgender people and permit transition therapy and surgery rather than force local people to go abroad for the treatment, a senior Health Ministry official said.

A class for female DJs will take place in Hanoi this weekend with the hopes of building a network of female music professionals.

Authorities in Mexico have issued an alert in several states after thieves snatched potentially deadly radioactive material used for industrial radiography.

Customs officers at Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport seized on April 16 more than 65kg of ivory horns and tusks, believed to come from African rhinocerous and elephants.

BNP Paribas- a French bank and financial services company and the low-cost carrier Vietjet Air on April 15 signed a US$60 million credit agreement to financeVietjet’s purchase of five aircraft in the Airbus A320 family in 2015 and 2016.

Vietnam ranks 85th out of 143 economies around the world on the networked readiness index, down one notch from the previous year, according to a report by the World Economic Forum (WEF).

Vietnamese shooting athletes failed to repeat their gold medal victory after the team finished the World Shooting Championship – ISSF World Cup 2015 with just one bronze medal.

The vocational education law will take effect in three months. However, vocational schools still don’t know which management agency they will belong to – the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) or the Ministry of Education

The results of EU-funded project providing technical support in improving legal frameworks for nuclear safety and enhancing the capacity and effectiveness of the Vietnamese regulatory body were announced on April 16.

Michael Phelps won the 100-meter butterfly at his first meet in eight months Thursday night, beginning his push to compete at a fifth Olympics next year.

Vietnam is continuing its search for the pilots of two Russian-made fighter jet Su-22M4 believed to have crashed into the sea 15km north of Phu Quy Island yesterday (April 16).

The central city of Da Nang maintained its status as the most competitive locality in the country, topping the Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI) for the second consecutive year.