VIETNAM TODAY

The Vietnam General Confederation of Labour has just proposed to raise the minimum wage by 21-36% next year.

Pilot models for safe agricultural production and trading under the Vietnam Good Agricultural Practice/Good Manufacturing Practices in eight provinces and cities have seen encouraging results and are being multiplied across Vietnam.

Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong will pay an official visit to Vietnam from September 11-13.

Vietnam’s world No5 badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh defeated his host rival Chih Hsun Yang in the opening game of the 2013 Taiwan Open Grand Prix Gold on September 4.

HCM City wants to attract more UK investors in the future, Le Hoang Quan, Chairman of the HCM City People’s Committee, told a seminar in London on September 4.

The HCM City's Department of Health has just punished two local clinics for using unlicensed Chinese doctors.

Hundreds of thousands of dead fish were left floating in a Chinese river after a chemical discharge, officials said Wednesday, the latest industrial accident to pollute the country's battered environment.

The US Department of Commerce has decided to impose new anti-dumping taxes on tra fish fillets imported from Vietnam.

Vietnam jumps five positions to 70th place according to the Global Competitiveness Index for the 2013-2014 period.

HCM City authorities have suspended leaders from four local public-service companies for embezzling from employees' salaries.

A Vietnam Fatherland Front consultative conference on September 5 elected Deputy Prime Nguyen Thien Nhan president of the VFF to replace incumbent president Huynh Dam.

The heavy rains and flooding on the night of September 4 washed away 13 houses and 12 people in the mountainous Lao Cai Province.

Cooperation in energy, especially oil and gas, plays an extremely important role in the developing strategic partnership between Vietnam and Russia , Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has said.

The International Monetary Fund warned the Group of 20 Wednesday that emerging economies were slowing more than expected and under pressure from US plans to slow its stimulus.

More than VND1.8 trillion (US$85.7 million) is expected to be invested in repairing and resurfacing the pavements in more than 600 streets in Hanoi over the next seven years, according to the city's Transport Department.

GiapSchool, the first online study portal, under the Massive Open Online Course – MOOC model, has been recently launched in Vietnam.

Three people were reported to be killed by devastating flashflood and landslides in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau from the night of September 3 to September 4.

Vietnam and Timor Leste will strengthen cooperation in politics, economics, trade, investment, agro-forestry-fisheries, energy, information technology, and education-training.

Local people in Hai Duong Province are calling on authorities to stop operation of a waste-recycling plant because it causes serious pollution.