VIETNAM TODAY

Vo Huy Cuong, Deputy Head of the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam has discussed measures to promote civil aviation cooperation with Vuwani Ndwamato, Director of the South African Department of Air Transport in Pretoria.

The International Committee of the Red Cross has halted all staff movement across Afghanistan and closed its office in Jalalabad that was hit by a suicide and gun attack.

A delegation from the UK’s All-Party Parliament Group for Vietnam led by its Chair, Labour Member of Parliament George Howarth, is paying a working visit to Vietnam.

Leaders and experts from the tourism industry met yesterday in Hanoi for an in-depth Tourism Promotion Conference, where they debated how Vietnam can become more successful in the lucrative and fast-growing sector.

NA deputies have recommended slashing the corporate income tax to 20% for all enterprises as a way to support enterprises.

Vietnamese exporters have described the US Department of Commerce’s recent levy of anti-subsidy duties on frozen shrimp imported from seven countries including Vietnam as absolutely unreasonable.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and his entourage left Hanoi on May 31 for the 12 th Shangri La Dialogue in Singapore.

France and Germany have agreed upon appointing a full-time president to oversee Eurogroup, French President François Hollande announced at a joint press conference with Angela Merkel in Paris on Thursday.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung delivered a speech to open the second Ministerial Meeting of the Conference of Parties on the ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response in Hanoi.

A number of shops have been selling unofficial copies of police and military uniforms, allowing for crimes ranging from police impersonation to extortion.

Artefacts from a sunken ship in Quang Nam Province have been retrieved and shared between the authorities and the excavating company.

The 2004 Ordinance on Religion and Belief will be amended to keep pace with rapid changes in society, a conference was told in Hanoi on May 29.

McDonald’s plans to open restaurants in Vietnam, with the first to open in Ho Chi Minh City "in the next two years".

A newly-issued decree on e-commerce which will take effect July 1 is expected to provide better protection for online shoppers and boost internet trading.

Staff members of websites run by enterprises and organisations will no longer be allowed to work as official newspapers, according to the Ministry of Information and Communications.

Forestry officials are working to prevent illegal logging hotspots in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai by raising the role of citizens.

The US Department of Commerce announced on May 29 that it will impose anti-subsidy tariffs of nearly 63% on frozen shrimp imported from China, India, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.

A US drone strike has killed the deputy chief of the Pakistani Taliban in the country's lawless tribal northwest, officials said, dealing a major blow to the militant network.

Officials and specialists gathered in Hanoi to discuss the best ways to improve education for ethnic minority children.