VIETNAM TODAY

Transport industry are adjusting their fares higher following the increased petrol price.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung yesterday received Indian Minister of Commerce, Industry and Textiles Anand Sharma.

Experts helped to steer hopeful Vietnamese students in the right direction in their choices for overseas study.

The US decided to impose a rate of USD 0 per kg on Vietnam’s Vinh Hoan company and $0.03 per kg on 12 other companies.

Australia's flood crisis was set to cost in excess of Aus$500 million (USD530 million) in New South Wales alone and more rain was on the way, the state government said.

A series of films reflecting various modern life cultural and social issues will be screened as part of the UNESCO Culture and Development Week.

The centralised wastewater treatment plant of the Long Thanh Industrial Park in southern Dong Nai Province has been caught polluting a canal for four years, an environmental agency said.

Oil prices rose slightly to near $107 a barrel in Asia ahead of a key U.S. employment report that will give insight into the strength of the world's No. 1 economy and demand for crude.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has issued an order asking ministries, industries and localities to take drastic measures to prevent forest fires.

Senior Vietnamese and Cambodian officials gathered in HCM City to prepare for the 7th Meeting on Cooperation and Development between their border provinces.

The so-called Human Rights Act provides completely inaccurate and biased information about Vietnam’s implementation of human rights issues.

Greece seemed to have clinched a high-stakes debt swap as a deadline for bondholders to accept huge losses on their Greek holdings came and went.

The first training centre for Vietnamese coffee producers has been inaugurated in Bao Loc district of Central Highlands Lam Dong province.

While the Ministry of Education and Training will only declare the subjects for the final exams in one month, high schools have been gearing up to prepare their students for the exam since early February.

Vietnam is planning to open a representative office in Tokyo to facilitate its tourism marketing activities and step up cooperation between travel firms of the two nations.

HCM City authorities discussed a proposal to set up an automatic system to collect toll from cars entering the downtown area, with many expressing scepticism.

Vietnam Airlines is seeking approval to heighten penalties for those that threaten aviation safety.

Hand, foot and mouth disease in HCM City developed at an alarming rate, with 143 new cases recorded per week on average, the city Health Department said, calling for more efforts to improve the situation.

The Prime Minister has asked the Transport Ministry to develop the expansion of Highway 1 by late 2016.