VIETNAM TODAY

The final plan on the upgrade and expansion of the Dung Quat oil refinery will be submitted to the Prime Minister for review and approval early next month.

A 17-year old American girl Kayala Jaramillo has cut her hair, taken vows of chastity and been ordained a nun at Thien Vien Chan Nguyen (Buddhist Meditation Centre) in California, the US.

Hanoi needs about VND11 trillion (US$522.3 million) to implement a solid waste treatment plan to 2030 and with a vision towards 2050, which was signed by Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai.

Twenty six ca tru (ceremonial singing) troupes from across the nation will gather at a festival hosted by the Vietnam Institute of Musicology from August 26-29 in Hanoi.

At least 45 people in Cambodia have died and thousands of families have been evacuated from homes to higher grounds in floods caused by monsoon rains and rivers overflowing their banks, a senior official said on August 21.

On August 22, Hanoi authorities transferred the first 17 children and 14 elderly people to Thuy An Centre following the child-trafficking case at Bo De Pagoda.

People across Malaysia held a minute's silence and wore black on Friday as the Southeast Asian country observed a day of mourning to mark the return of the first 20 bodies among its citizens killed when a jetliner was

Japanese Idemitsu Kosan company on August 21 announced that it has struck oil at its fourth oil-well at plot 05-1b and 05-1c offshore southern Vietnam.

The fourth Russian built Kilo-class submarine began its factory-level sea trials on the Baltic Sea on August 21, according to Russian media sources.

As many countries close their airports to flights from countries with reported Ebola cases and airlines halt routes to those areas, Vietnamese citizens living in those regions have trouble returning.

The consumer price index (CPI) in the country's two largest cities continued to rise in August, according to the statistics departments of Hanoi and HCM City.

Heavy rain delayed a search on Friday for more than 50 people believed buried under a deadly landslide on the edge of the Japanese city of Hiroshima, as opposition politicians rounded on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for his handling

President of the European Commission José Manuel Durão Barroso will pay a two-day visit to Vietnam on August 25-26 at the invitation of Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

American Oil and Gas giant Exxon Mobil has funded Operation Smile Vietnam with US$75,000 to provide free surgeries for 300 congenital harelip and cleft palate children across the country.

Vietnam vehemently opposes China’s inhuman actions against Vietnamese fishing vessels operating legally in Vietnam’s waters.

The first two seaplanes arrived in Vietnam on August 21 in preparation for aerial tours of Halong Bay.

Five foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have committed more than 6.1 million USD in support of the central province of Quang Tri for the 2014-2017 period.

An inspection team led by Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Ho Tuan Anh on August 20 examined the preventive measures taken by large hotels and travel agencies against deadly Ebola virus which is currently ravaging West Africa.

Over 4,500 hectares of forest in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong have been being destroyed for years, while local authorities said they know nothing.