VIETNAM TODAY

Up to 14,539 Vietnamese children were adopted in 2011-2015, with 12,768 fostered domestically and the remainder lived with foreign foster families, said the Justice Ministry’s Department of Adoption.

A couple in Quang Ngai Province are calling for financial support to help treat their 12-year-old son with leukaemia.

The Danang International Flower Show 2016 will take place in the city from 25 - 26 November.

Seventy-four people have been confirmed dead and another two injured as a platform of a power plant's cooling tower under construction collapsed in east China's Jiangxi Province Thursday, rescuers said.

The National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting announced on November 24 that a tropical depression has formed in the eastern sea area south of the Philippines and is heading towards the East Sea.

More than 800 Vietnamese and foreign runners have registered to compete at the 2016 Ha Long Bay Heritage Marathon, slated for November 26 in Ha Long city, northern Quang Ninh province.

The Government Inspectorate has reported hundreds of billions of dong in losses by wrongdoings at State Capital Investment Corporation (SCIC).

The International Choir and Orchestra of HCM City will perform traditional Christmas carols at a charity concert called “Star of Bethlehem” on December 2 and 3.

Nguyen Tran Bat, chairman of InvestConsult Group, talked with DTiNews about the local economy after US president-elect Donald Trump announced he would withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Police in the central city of Danang this morning detained a Chinese man after he was caught stealing VND400 million (USD17,901) on a flight to the city's airport.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and Party General Secretary and President of Laos Bounnhang Volachith witnessed the signing of seven cooperation documents after their talks in Vientiane on November 24.

The Hanoi Department of Natural Resources and Environment has asked local authorities to revoke land use rights on plots handed over to projects in the city for more than 12 months without action.

The target of US$6 billion in two-way trade between Vietnam and Italy in 2017-2018 is within reach as the Vietnam-EU free trade agreement is soon to be sealed, President Tran Dai Quang said.

State President Tran Dai Quang and Pope Francis agreed that the Vietnam-Vatican relations have progressed positively through high-level contacts and regular dialogues in recent years, during their meeting in the Vatican city on November 23.

GIZ and United Nations Development Program (UNDP) on November 23 hold a workshop on the outcome of COP 22 and the plan for the implementation of the Paris Agreement in Hanoi.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Mr. Nguyen Phu Trong, begins an official visit to Laos from today to November 26.

At least 40 people died and many were injured when a platform collapsed at a construction site in eastern China’s Jiangxi province Thursday morning. Several people are believed to be still trapped in the collapsed scaffolding, state-run Xinhua news

Cần Thơ City and Phú Quốc Island will be developed into Mekong Delta tourism centres over the next five years, while Mỹ Tho City in Tiền Giang province will be made a tourism hub for the region’s eastern tourism zone.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc on November 23 held talks with his Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen on the sidelines of the 9th Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam (CLV) Development Triangle Area Summit.