VIETNAM TODAY

Passenger buses will be forced to install GPS devices but 85% of companies have installed the devices for the form’s sake only.

21-year-old Vu Thi Thuy Linh has was crowned at the Miss Vietnam Czech Republic contest, which concluded this week at the Top Hotel in Prague.

The Ministry of Finance will raise the price frame of clean water beginning on July 11.

Leaders from the 17 countries sharing the euro sealed a dramatic deal to direct emergency measures at crisis-hit Italy and Spain and boost the embattled economy.

Export businesses must be better prepared to cope with the increasing number of anti-dumping and anti-subsidy lawsuits filed by export markets, experts have warned.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has approved a $180 million disaster management project.

Six months after the decision to destroy 533 extremely slim houses in Hanoi, many of them stil exist.

Two Chinese traditional medical clinics in Ho Chi Minh City have been fined VND270 million (US$12,857) for breaking environmental regulations.

NA vice chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan has returned from a three-day working visit to the US which promoted bilateral co-operation between the legislative bodies of both countries.

Young girls with unwanted pregnancies are trying to swindle money on the internet by pretending to sell their child for adoption.

Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh paid a two-day official visit to Belgium at the invitation of Belgium’s Deputy Prime Minister cum Minister of Foreign Affairs, Didier Reynders.

The State Bank of Vietnam has asked card issuers not to collect ATM transaction fees from their own customers this year.

Blue Dragon, a charity working with kids in crisis throughout Vietnam, is calling for more donations to open two new centres for the rising number of children coming to them for help.

Children should be given early education at school about sexual abuse and equipped with skills to protect themselves.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development discussed on what should be done to assist catfish growers and exporters in Mekong Delta provinces.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. is to abandon plans to export its nuclear power plant expertise as it struggles to cope with the Fukushima disaster.

The Central Institute for Economic Management reports that the gap between the rich and poor in Vietnam is widening.

A series of attacks in the Iraqi capital and to its north killed at least 12 people and wounded 47 on Thursday, security and medical officials said.

The first International Exhibition of Construction Technology 2012 opened by the Ministry of Construction will run until June 29.