VIETNAM TODAY

Japan's coastguard was searching Friday for six crew of a Japanese cargo ship that capsized after colliding with a Sierra Leone-registered vessel.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and his entourage arrived in Washington D.C on September 26 (Vietnamese time) to attend the High-level Meetings of the 68 th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.

For the first time in several decades, the State Bank of Vietnam’s exchange rate management has successfully prevented what it terms the ‘dollarisation’ of the national economy.

Hanoi is going to launch a pilot project in which parents will supervise and partly decide what exactly their fees will pay for at public schools.

Ten steel producers in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province have called for help from local authorities to treat the rising amount of hazardous waste from their production.

The Minister of Health has been urged to do something to regain the public's confidence following the sector’s recent problems.

A French climber scaling a glacier off Mont Blanc got more than satisfaction for his efforts when he stumbled across a treasure trove of emeralds, rubies and sapphires that had been buried for decades.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism has announced the nation’s foreign arrivals totalled 5.5 million after the first nine months of this year, up 9.9% compared to the same period in 2012.

Representatives from more than 200 international non-governmental organisations convened their regular meeting in Hanoi on September 26.

Fourteen overseas Vietnamese teachers will have a chance to improve their skills of teaching Vietnamese language when attending a course opened in Hanoi on September 26.

A defendant in northern Dien Bien province was sentenced on September 26 to three years’ imprisonment and three years of probation after serving his jail term for “conducting propaganda against the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam”.

Even though Vietnam’s poverty rate has been considerably reduced over the past two decades, official poverty reduction efforts are unsustainable.

The Ministry of Construction has announced a revised draft of the Housing Law, which bans the use of residential homes as guesthouses.

Livestock farming makes up 14.5 percent of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, the UN food agency said Thursday, proposing solutions like breeding less-flatulent types of cows.

The State Bank of Vietnam on September 25 announced administrative procedures relating to selling, buying and solving bad debts from domestic credit institutions for the Vietnam Assets Management Company.

Vietnam’s Gross Domestic Product growth rate was estimated at 5.14% in the first nine months, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

With the eyes of the world upon them, the United States and Iran will Thursday have one of their highest-level meetings since the 1979 revolution as their foreign ministers join talks on Tehran's suspect nuclear program.

Vietnam and the US on September 25 marked the 25th anniversary of bilateral cooperation in the search for remains of US servicemen who died during the war in Vietnam.