VIETNAM TODAY

A senior labour official on August 28 quashed rumours that contractors at the Vung Ang economic zone in central Ha Tinh province are recruiting 10,000 Chinese employees, saying this is false information.

Vu Tuan San, a veteran researcher on Hanoi and Han – Nom study, won the Grand Prize of the 2014 ‘Bui Xuan Phai – For Love of Hanoi’ awards.

Spokesman for the Foreign Ministry Le Hai Binh gave an overview of Vietnam’s foreign affairs and other issues of public concern during the monthly press briefing in Hanoi on August 28.

The ministries of Transport and Culture, Sports and Tourism proposed a lift on the visa restrictions for nine countries in order to boost Vietnam's tourism.

Twenty passengers, including 12 foreigners, luckily survived after their cruise ship turned upside down in Halong Bay on August 28.

Vietnam will apply a zero tariff policy to all automobiles imported from ASEAN countries by 2018, making it easier for consumers to buy cars.

A Vietnam Airlines' chief flight attendant has been suspended for attempting to smuggle 38 cartons of cigarettes.

Private hospitals are facing huge difficulties in getting patients. They claim they could help reduce overcrowding at State-owned hospitals if they had Government co-operation, a spokesperson for the Vietnam Private Hospitals Association has said.

The World Bank (WB) has provided 44 billion VND (2.1 million USD) for the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap to improve its medical waste treatment.

The hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 will focus on the southern part of the existing search zone after a new clue to the plane's possible location emerged, Australia said on Thursday.

The senior police official Duong Tu Trong gets his sentenced increased by 15 months in prison for helping Duong Chi Dung flee during the Vinalines corruption case.

While many Vietnamese citizens who study abroad choose not to return, others have found successful careers in their home country.

Bui Thanh Mai, a Vietnamese six-year-old, has won the gold prize, in the 7 and under aged category, at the eighth Toyota Dream Car Art Contest for her artwork piece entitled "Super Crab Car".

Vietnam contributed to ASEAN’s vision for its naval forces post-2015 – when ASEAN will be formally established as a community during the eighth ASEAN Navy Chiefs’ Meeting in Bangkok on August 27.

In the first of eight months of the year disbursements of foreign direct investment surged 45% on-year to US$7.9 billion, according to the General Statistics Office.

The Yonex Sunrise Vietnam Open 2014 is set to get underway in Ho Chi Minh City on September 1, the organizing board announced on August 27.

The UN food aid agency said Wednesday that a convoy of supplies had reached 2,000 desperate families, crammed into the Iraqi city of Karbala after fleeing jihadist attacks.

Despite OSCA's claim to have only used licensed practitioners, authorities have said that the organization did not have a license to perform the surgeries.

The government has issued a regulation on financial management for the EVN, banning the group from investing in certain of non-core areas.