VIETNAM TODAY

National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung yesterday ordered the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to clarify the draft law on sea and island resources and environment.

The Ministry of Construction has requested that the Ministry of Transport and the investor of the Noi Bai-Lao Cai Highway investigate the causes for cracks on the route.

The authorities have decided to support a project to build 40,000 flood-resistant homes in 14 central provinces between 2014 to 2016.

The Olympic Vietnam football squad were knocked out of the ongoing 17th Asian Games (ASIAD 17) in the Republic of Korea on September 26 after losing 1-3 to the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

A high school teacher in Quang Ninh Province has been suspended from her work for her violent behaviour toward a student.

Young entrepreneurs have asked the State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) to consider loosening monetary policy to inject more capital into the market and stimulate economic growth.

According to the Hanoi Statistics Office, foreign visitors to the city reached almost 1.5 million during the first nine months of this year.

The Ministry of Education and Training has just issued instructions to tighten control over the training and issuing of certificates to foreign language learners.

Gymnast Phan Thi Ha Thanh of Vietnam won her second medal, a silver, in the women's beam event at the 17th Asian Games (ASIAD) in Incheon, South Korea on September 25.

Mu Cang Chai district’s Culture and Tourism Week was launched on September 25 in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai, attracting a large number of local residents and tourists.

An action plan, laying out a roadmap to develop four key industries under the Vietnam-Japan cooperation framework towards 2020 with a vision to 2030, was unveiled in Hanoi on September 25.

The Vietnam economy has added more than one million jobs in the first eight months of the year, meeting 64% of the annual goal, according to a report by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

More than 2,000 people marched on the residence of Hong Kong's leader Thursday night as students escalated their protest action against China's refusal to grant the city full democracy.

Iraq has "credible" intelligence that Islamic State militants plan to attack subway systems in Paris and the United States, the prime minister said on Thursday, but U.S. and French officials said they had no evidence to back up his claims.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Hai Binh has reiterated Vietnam's readiness to launch necessary measures to protect fishermen’s normal activities in traditional fishing grounds.

Deputy PM, FM Pham Binh Minh will pay official visits to Canada from September 29-30 and the US from October 1-2 at the invitations of Canadian FM John Baird and US Secretary of State John Kerry, respectively.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh delivered remarks on Vietnam’s place in the world order to the Asia Society members on the sidelines of the 69th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York

Tourists may soon be seen shuttling around HCM City in electric buses like they do in Hanoi as part of a pilot project just approved by the People's Committee.

Concerns over copyright infringement of a reprint of a 1996 book, which was given the Good Book Award 2014, have tarnished the image of both the publishing house and the prize.