VIETNAM TODAY

Two or three storms and tropical depressions may appear in the East Sea this November with one or two likely to hit the central and southern regions of Vietnam.

The third Vietnam-China Youth Festival will take place in Vietnam from November 7-10 to cement friendship, mutual understanding and trust between the two countries’young people.

A family in Lang Son Province is calling for financial support to cover medical treatment for their two children who are both suffering from beta thalassemia.

Three more Zika cases have been reported in HCM City, bringing the total number of people infected with the virus in the city to 21 by November 3.

South Korean prosecutors have detained a former aide to President Park Geun-hye, a prosecution official said on Thursday, the second person to be held in an influence peddling scandal that has rocked the country's presidency.

Two fishing boats in the central province of Quang Ngai have complained about being attacked by Chinese ships.

The Da Nang People’s Committee has granted licences to 29 cruise boats to operate on the Han River and on inshore routes in the Son Tra Peninsula for a year (2016-2017).

Vietlott has confirmed the winner of another jackpot prize worth VND64.8 billion (USD3.1 million).

Government positions at Hai Duong Province Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs are suspected to have been sold as it has 44 deputies or heads of offices out of 46 employees.

Vietnamese Facebook figure Ho Ngoc Hai has been arrested by HCM City Police on charges of spreading propaganda against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Civil servants will have seven days off for Tet Holiday which falls on January 26 to February 1, 2017.

A 280-strong search-and-rescue team scoured the waters off an Indonesian island for dozens missing on Thursday, a day after a speedboat carrying mostly migrant workers struck a reef and sank, the national disaster mitigation agency said.

A university education may not be the only route to success in life, but it is a very popular one, especially among people with hearing impairment.

Up to 787 out of 988 karaoke bars and clubs in Hanoi do not meet fire safety requirements, according to the Hanoi Fire Safety and Rescue.

With women facing increased risks of HIV infection, greater emphasis is necessary to address the needs of females in the national HIV response, experts have said.

HCM City authorities have agreed a pilot project to operate three electric bus routes in the city centre as part of efforts to improve the city’s tourism development.

Vietnam’s consumer confidence index was unchanged in the third quarter from the second quarter, at 107, keeping Vietnam as the seventh most optimistic country globally, according to the latest CCI report released by Nielsen.

A report into missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 by the Australian safety investigator leading the search supports its view that the aircraft descended rapidly after running out of fuel with no human intervention, the agency said on Wednesday.

Nha Trang city in the south central coastal province of Khanh Hoa will host the first among a series of events within the framework of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Vietnam 2017.