VIETNAM TODAY

As many as 1,660 English language teachers at secondary and high schools nationwide will undergo further training to sharpen their English teaching skills this year.

Made-in-Vietnam micro satellite, Pico Dragon, is expected to be shipped to the International Space Station on August 4 to prepare for a mission in space.

The plight suffered by Vietnamese Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin victims can be alleviated with the full support of people from all walks of life, spiritually and financially, heard an online exchange held in Hanoi.

Taliban militants armed with guns, rocket-propelled grenades and bombs attacked a prison in northwest Pakistan, freeing more than 250 detainees, including 25 “dangerous terrorists,” authorities said.

Vietnam is willing to create favourable conditions for Hungarian businesses to invest in the Southeast Asian country, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan said during talks with his host Semjen Zsolt in Budapest on July 29.

The Central Council for Amnesty Consultation, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, met in Hanoi on July 29 to discuss the 2013 amnesty plan.

The FBI announced on Monday that it had freed 105 sexually exploited teenagers and arrested 150 suspected pimps in a nationwide sting on underage prostitution over the weekend that included 76 cities.

HCM City welcomed 2.1 million international tourists in the first seven months of 2013, reaching 57% of this year target.

Dog racing is scheduled to begin in the coastal southern city of Vung Tau on September 2.

Authorities in Quang Ninh Province have approved an increase in the price of tickets for travellers to Ha Long Bay next year.

Multiple bomb blasts in Nigeria's biggest northern city of Kano killed 15 people on Monday, a senior policeman said, in an area previously targeted by militant Islamist group Boko Haram.

The illegal import and oversupply of sugar has been a big headache for the Vietnamese sugarcane sector.

The second phase of the United Nations’ “Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation” projects has been officially launched in Vietnam.

Scientists from across the globe were brought together at an international physical science conference that opened in the central province of Binh Dinh on July 29.

Vietnam attracted nearly US$12 billion in newly and additionally registered foreign direct investment capital in the first seven months of 2013, a year-on-year of 19.6%.

The MoET will carry out an English teacher quality assessment at colleges and universities nationwide in September.

Tonnes of fish in Thanh Hoa Province's Hai Binh Commune mysteriously died after a heavy rain, putting local farmers in difficulties.

Boeing said Monday it had asked airlines to check distress beacons made by Honeywell on all planes, after the device was identified as the likely cause of a fire on a new Dreamliner.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has pressed the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau to tap its hydropower and mineral resources potential - key sectors to drive its economic development and the entire region as a whole.