VIETNAM TODAY

The Asian Development Bank has selected the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho and Hue city in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue to benefit from its technical assistance project offering disaster risk financing solutions to cope with climate change.

More than 1,000 people in the central city of Da Nang donated about 1,000 units of blood during July 17 as part of a national campaign of blood donation.

Palaeontologists in Utah on Wednesday said they had found the fossil of a strange horned dinosaur which roamed an island continent known as Laramidia.

More than VND 6.5 trillion from the State budget will be spent in developing the cinema industry nationwide from now to 2020, according to the Department of Cinematography.

Reasons behind Vietnamese workers’ decisions to work illegally in the Republic of Korea were announced at a seminar in Hanoi on July 16.

The crime rate has increased in the last two years despite efforts made by HCM City in fighting prostitution, drug-related crime and theft, city officials have said.

The MoET has removed a controversial regulation that would have given bonus points to Heroic Mothers who registered for university entrance exams.

Medical research that uses animals to test therapies for human brain disorders is often biased, claiming positive results and then failing in human trials, US researchers said Tuesday.

About 30,000 Vietnamese spectators saw with their own eye Arsenal FC players do a warm-up exercise in Hanoi on July 16, one day ahead of their friendly match against Vietnamese players.

Vietnam is joining 11 other countries at the 18th round of Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations in Malaysia from July 15–25.

The National Assembly’s Committee of National Defence and Security in Hanoi on July 16 reviewed how effectively implement policies on immigration, migration and residence of foreigners in Vietnam.

There are several inadequacies in the current textbooks and education programmes for basic education, an official has said.

North and South Korea will hold fresh talks Wednesday on reopening their joint industrial zone with low hopes of an early agreement following months of friction.

Phu Quoc Fish Sauce has officially earned a Protected Designation of Origin certification from the European Union.

The National Financial Supervisory Commission has announced a report listing six areas with the highest rates of bad debts in Vietnam.

Deputy Defence Minister Nguyen Thanh Cung on July 16 held talks with Senior Lieutenant General Zhang Yang, Director of General Political Department under Chinese People’s Liberation Army.

Four engineers have been found guilty of stealing materials from the Nhat Tan Bridge construction project, the Hanoi court announced yesterday.

At least 10 people have been burned alive or hacked to death with machetes and dozens wounded in ethnic clashes in the west African state of Guinea, a local medic said on Tuesday.

Despite the impact of the global economic downturn, the northern province of Ha Nam is optimistic about foreign direct investment inflows.