VIETNAM TODAY

French police have arrested five Vietnamese hiding inside a truck in an attempt to enter the UK illegally.

Get set for a rare astronomical event on Nov 14 when the full moon will be the biggest in nearly 70 years, said the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Vinh University lecturer Tran Dinh Thang was the youngest of 65 lecturers and scientists newly recognised as professors at a ceremony in Hanoi on November 5.

About 11 karaoke bars in Cau Giay District, Hanoi have been shut and dozens suspended after fire inspections following the death of 13 people in Tran Thai Tong Street.

People in Ho Chi Minh City are flocking to buy lottery tickets after two recent Vietlott jackpots.

South Korean prosecutors arrested two former top presidential aides on Sunday in a snowballing influence-peddling scandal which has seen tens of thousands of people take to the streets to demand President Park Geun-Hye resign.

India's Defence Ministry will agree on Monday to purchase 12 amphibious rescue aircraft from Japanese manufacturer ShinMaywa Industries worth $1.5 billion-$1.6 billion, the Nikkei news paper reported on Sunday.

Vietnam’s total retail sale and service revenues saw a year-on-year increase of 9.3% to some VND2,896.6 trillion (US$126 billion) in the first ten months of 2016, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Vietnamese communities in many countries across the world have made donations to help people in central provinces who suffered from flooding caused by prolonged downpours in the past month.

Can Tho has received 2016 Asian Townscape Award from the Asia-Pacific regional office of the UN Human Settlements (UN-HABITAT) program at a recent ceremony in China’s Yinchuan city.

Deputy Minister of Defense Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh and Admiral Sun Jiaguo, Deputy Chief of the Joint Staff of China’s Central Military Commission on November 4 co-chaired the sixth Strategic Defense Dialogue in Sichuan, China.

Whether it is for power generation or irrigation, all upstream developments on the Mekong River put Việt Nam at risk as the last downstream country, experts said yesterday.

One fifth of the kieu hoi (overseas remittance) volume in 2015 has gone into the real estate sector, according to the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV).

A counter-terrorism drill, the first of its kind between Vietnamese and Chinese border localities, took place in the Mong Cai international border gate area in the northern province of Quang Ninh on November 4.

A stable macro-economy, quality of growth and speedy economic restructuring are constant goals of the Party and the Government, a senior Party official said yesterday.

Andy Murray can depose Novak Djokovic as world number one on Saturday but the British star insists he won't let the pressure of the historic occasion knock him off course.

DTiNews readers have donated nearly VND100m (USD4,500) to a widow in Bac Ninh Province who is in need of help to treat her heart disease and raise her children.

Fifty-four per cent of Vietnamese people, or 52 million, are already online; the fifth-largest online population in Asia-Pacific behind China, India, Japan and Indonesia.

Vietnam must improve its local education system to attract more foreign students to the country.