VIETNAM TODAY

Seafood sellers in Beijing expressed consternation Thursday over Japan's gradual release of wastewater from the disaster-hit Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean.

The Southeast Asian region could lose up to 30% of its gross domestic product by 2050 due to increases in global temperature and extreme weather events, but bolstering the region’s renewable energy manufacturing capacity would position Southeast Asian countries

The Australian Government’s funding scheme – Innovation Partnership Grants under the Aus4Innovation program will set aside A$ 2 million to fund tech-based innovation in Vietnam’s agriculture sector.

Foreigners have the right to own houses for a set period, but land ownership is not permitted. Once their ownership duration concludes, they may renew it once and have the privilege to purchase and sell houses similarly to local residents.

Police in Khanh Hoa Province are investigating the deaths of a woman and her three daughters at their home in Cam Lam District.

A swimming teacher in Hanoi's Ha Dong District has just been detained after a student drowned in his class.

Many flights to Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi have had to land at other airports due to bad weather.

A woman in the northern province of Quang Nam is in desperate need of help to save her son who is on the verge of death.

Construction on terminals at Long Thanh and Tan Son Nhat international airports in the southern region has been scheduled to begin on August 26.

The increased cost-of-living crisis sparked by surging inflation last year is continuing to push people in Asia and the Pacific into extreme poverty, according to a new report by the Asian Development Bank.

India on Wednesday became the first nation to land a craft near the Moon's south pole, a historic triumph for the world's most populous nation and its ambitious, cut-price space programme.

Singapore's PM Lee Hsien Loong will pay an official visit to Viet Nam from August 27-29 at the invitation of PM Pham Minh Chinh, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced.

Public bus travellers in the central city of Danang are complaining about recent slow services while many staff members are quitting jobs due to late pay.

Authorities in the central province of Quang Ngai have allowed local businesses to sell mud and sand after being dredged from local ports.

Casper Vietnam Company has just donated VND100 million to a Dantri Bridge construction project in the Mekong Delta City of Can Tho.

Final preparations to discharge wastewater from the crippled Fukushima power plant in Japan were under way Wednesday, its operator said, a day before the scheduled release into the Pacific Ocean.

Around 100,000 people have been evacuated from flooded villages in Pakistan's Punjab province, emergency services said on Wednesday.

A herd of buffaloes in the central province of Quang Tri has attacked local people and damaged forests.

Around 1,287 households illegally residing in the premises of Hue Citadel will be relocated.