VIETNAM TODAY

The central city of Danang has detected over 700 food stalls violating food safety and hygiene standards since early 2011.

Fashionable, dirt-cheap helmets are flooding Hanoi’s pavements. All of them are not verified for quality and made by recycled plastic.

English interpretations will be available through headphones for the first time for non-Vietnamese speakers in Hanoi.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism will organise two promotional campaigns in the next two months in China.

The Doraemon Fund will provide 500 scholarships worth VND500 million for pupils in the 2011-2012 academic year.

Beautiful sites in the capital city of Hanoi and central provinces will be spotted in a documentary film made by the Kansai Telecasting Corporation.

The State Bank of Vietnam allowed more bullion imports if necessary to stabilise the overheated domestic gold market and to keep prices stable.

Despite reducing power purchases from local producers, EVN continued to buy electricity from external sources.

The Navy on August 22 held a ceremony to receive a Gepard 3.9 class frigate at Cam Ranh Port in central Khanh Hoa p rovince.

The Government has approved an early increase of up to VND 2 million per month in the minimum wage from October 1.

The UK’s leading football team, Manchester United, has signed a three-year partnership with Beeline, Vietnam’s mobile telecoms company.

Hanoi may gather food vendors in the capital city at designated places to ensure better management over food safety.

Prosecutors have filed a motion to dismiss all the sexual assault and attempted rape charges against former IMF chief.

Bau Bang village in Danang is locally-known as a place for recovery of women who were former drug addicts and prostitutes.

A Kien Giang Province court yesterday sentenced a local man to four years in jail and three years on probation for writing articles defaming the Vietnamese state and providing them to foreign websites.

Vietnam’s export turnover to Africa reached US$2.6 billion in the first seven months of this year, up 172 percent from the same period last year.

German police said they had recovered dozens of stolen artworks by European masters valued at around 1.6 million euros with the help of the married couple behind the scam.

Having once been the major power in European and world club football, Italy is rapidly becoming the sick man of Europe in footballing terms.

Encroachment upon railway safety zones has been blamed for causing an alarming increase in the number of railway accidents, prompting authorities to remove illegal crossings.