VIETNAM TODAY

Malaysia-based budget carrier AirAsia has resumed an air route between Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and Danang city (Vietnam), operating four flights per week, starting on August 29.

The Embassy of Germany awarded the German language certificate (DSD I) to 63 students of Foreign Language Specialized School and Viet Duc High School in Hanoi on August 29.

The Vietnam-Russia Oil and Gas Joint Venture Enterprise (Vietsovpetro) has announced it discovered oil from Oligocene sediments at Sturgeon well of Lot 09-3/12 off Vietnam’s continental shelf.

Twenty drivers gathered their specially modified stock cars at the starting line of the country’s largest off-road race, which kicked off the holiday week-end on Aug 30 and runs until Sep 2, in the Central Highland province of Lam Dong.

A film by 32-year-old Vietnamese director Nguyen Hoang Diep entitled “Dap canh giu khong trung” (Flapping in the middle of Nowhere) is poised to compete at the 39th Toronto International Film Festival taking place from September 9-14.

Local doctors and nurses and international experts on cancer have gathered in Hue city, central Thua Thien-Hue province, to share experience in diagnosis and treatment and care for patients.

A modern passenger terminal will be built on Phu Quoc Island, a tourist destination in the south, to accommodate luxury cruise liners.

Many banking experts have expressed agreement with Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung's assertion that weak banks should be dissolved.

A rescue and conservation centre was opened in Hoang Lien National Park in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai on August 28.

An American man has been ordered to make compensations of USD3,000 for injuring a woman during a dispute with a taxi driver in Danang.

Over the past two years, ASEAN markets have become more important for 58 percent of respondents of a poll of 588 senior executives representing US companies in all 10 ASEAN countries.

Dtinews introduces the full text of Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s toast at the reception for diplomatic missions on August 28 to celebrate the 69th anniversary of National Day of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (September 2).

As many as 184 inmates in Hanoi have been given clemency on the occasion of National Day (September 2).

Two cruise ships anchored in Ha Long Bay suddenly sank due to high winds on August evening.

Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet Air have begun using a flight plan simulator to test the direct air routes through Laotian and Cambodian airspace.

A Vietnamese ship carrying 3,000 tonnes of coal sank on August 28, leaving six crew men missing.

Circus artists from the Vietnam Circus Federation will debut a special show dedicated to children on August 30.

The civil war in Syria has forced a record 3 million people out of the country as more than a million people fled in the past year, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.

Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Vu Van Tam joined 19 ministers and ministerial-level officials of 19 APEC member states at a regional meeting on ocean in Xiamen City of China’s Fujian province on August 27-28.