VIETNAM TODAY

Last year Nguyen Thanh Chan was released after serving 10 years in prison when another man confessed, and now is asking for VND10-billion in compensation.

HCM City authorities have announced a list of polluting companies and ordered the perpetrators to clean up their act by next year.

The Tuan Chau cruise ship terminal in the northern province of Quang Ninh has been recognised as the nation’s biggest artificial marina by the Vietnam Record Organisation.

The Ministry of Health has asked relevant agencies nationwide to strictly monitor foreigners entering Vietnam to prevent the Ebola virus from getting a foothold in the country.

Fourteen out of 15 chartered air routes from China to Vietnam’s central Danang city have been cancelled until the end of September 2014.

The US has once again urged China to restrain itself in activities in the East Sea, according to international media.

Japan unveiled Tuesday details of financial sanctions against 40 individuals and two groups involved in the annexation of Crimea and destabilisation of eastern Ukraine.

The Hanoi police have decided to prosecute a child trafficking case at Bo De Pagoda, which was well-known for taking in orphaned and abandoned children.

The New York-based publishing firm BOA Editions is set to release a Vietnamese-English collection of poems, The Secret of Hoa Sen.

Authorities of the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong are close to completing their report on the Lang Biang biosphere reserve to be submitted to UNESCO for recognition this September.

A DTiNews investigation found employees at yet another petrol station have been using their pumps to steal from customers.

The body of a woman who died under the knife of an unlicensed cosmetic surgeon, who later dumped her into a river, was retrieved, according to Hanoi police.

Vietnam and the US are seeking wider cooperation in various fields after the US ban on lethal weapon sales to Vietnam is removed.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung on August 4 urged the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs to urgently make plans to bring home all Vietnamese workers from Libya before the situation becomes worse.

Hanoi police have recently detained two men who allegedly were selling iPhone boxes that were filled with stones and rubble.

The prestigious financial magazine, The Banker, has listed eleven Vietnam banks in its recently published Top World Banks ranking for 2014, affirming the country as a leading financial centre in Southeast Asia.

The man in Binh Duong Province who found a VND100 million winning ticket in a pack of instant noodles, which the company deemed invalid, agreed to accept half of the money instead filing a lawsuit.

Twenty-six Chinese and Taiwanese arrested in Vietnam for their involvement in a sophisticated internet scam have been deported, Ho Chi Minh City Police report.

The central city of Danang is planning a unique touch for the 70th anniversary of Vietnam’s National Day fireworks display set to blast off on September 2, 2015.