VIETNAM TODAY

Urban waste treatment should be handed over to private operators since public facilities have proved inefficient, Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has said.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Binh Minh, along with his Lao counterpart Thoonglun Sisoulith, cut a ribbon to open the La Lay international border gate on June 25.

Vietnam wants to strengthen economic relations with member states of the Francophone community and creates favourable conditions for Francophone businesses to operate efficiently.

Up to 123 Chinese vessels on June 25 aggressively approached Vietnamese law enforcement ships to prevent them from getting close to rig Haiyang Shiyou-981 that is illegally standing in Vietnam’s waters, reported the Vietnam Fisheries Surveillance Department.

Authorities should prosecute a case in which a local company sold a spyware app to thousands of customers, said a lawyer.

Five Laws on Land, Anti-Wastefulness, Bidding, Reception of Citizens and Anti-Fire will come into effect since July 1, 2014.

The Vietnam Lawyers’ Association has announced it will support the government in drawing up necessary legal documents to file a petition against China’s provocations in the East Sea.

The former chairman of Vinalines received his salary from the company during the two-year imprisonment before he was sentenced to death.

Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Long has underlined the need to resolve territorial disputes in the East Sea in accordance with international law rather than the notion “might is right.”

At a press conference on June 24, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying concocted a false story to distract from China’s aggressive attack on a Vietnam fishing vessel and attempt to lay the blame on Vietnam.

HCM City will pilot an integrated international education programme before wider application at the city level, said one official.

Holding hands as they walked through the school gates, some fighting back tears, 75 children who survived South Korea's worst maritime disaster in 20 years, returned to class on Wednesday vowing to remember their lost friends.

Vulnerable women in countries close to China -- not only Vietnam but also North Korea, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar -- are being forced into marriages in the land of the one-child policy, experts say.

A section of Le Van Luong Road in HCM City collapsed on the afternoon of June 24, isolating at least seven households.

Portraits of Vietnamese ethnic groups taken by photographers Sebastien Laval from France and Le Vuong of Vietnam will be on show in the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris from today until July 6.

Vietnam’s consumer price index (CPI) in June increased by 0.3 percent from the previous month, driving the total in the first half of 2014 up 1.38 percent.

Nguyen Duc Kien, former Vice Chairman of the ACB, along with three other bank officials appealed against their sentences.

Petroleum traders in Vietnam have decided to increase petrol prices by VND330 per litre, to VND25,230, the highest they have ever been.

Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Tuesday called on Japan to turn the page on World War II, saying that persistent reopening of history worsened relations within Asia.