VIETNAM TODAY

Hungarian President Ader Janos and his wife will pay a State visit to Vietnam from November 26 – 30.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet officially set the vote for Dec 14, NHK public TV said, as he seeks to consolidate his grip on power.

A project on building an HIV-addiction treatment technology transfer centre was officially kicked off at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy in on November 21.

A seminar in Hanoi on November 21 highlighted the strategic partnership between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Republic of Korea (RoK).

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung says the strategic partnership between Vietnam and Germany has been developing strongly in all fields, especially in economics, trade and investment.

National Geographic has named Vietnamese dish Bun Cha as top 10 world’s best street food.

Police in Khanh Hoa Province discovered two stores that kept a large number of sea turtle shells, which they used to make handicrafts.

Vietnam Railways (VNR) officially launched its e-ticket booking system at the Hanoi Railways Station on November 21.

China's defense minister said Friday he wants to enhance dialogue to manage disputes with his country's neighbors, sounding a conciliatory note after years of sharpened confrontations over territorial claims on land and sea.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology has just decided to amend a decision they issued a year a go after an American firm sued for brand damage.

The imposition of anti-dumping duties on frozen pangasius fillets imported from Vietnam by the United States is unfair, Foreign Ministry spokesman Le Hai Binh said.

On November 20, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by US Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), unanimously passed eight foreign affairs measures, including a resolution coded H.Res. 714 on the South China Sea and the East China Sea.

As many as 45 out of 92 petrol stations in the central city of Da Nang has officially sold bio-fuel E5 and Mogas 95, according the municipal Department of Industry and Trade.

Between 100 to 140 million women are victims of genital mutilation, while some 7 per cent of women risk being raped in their lifetimes, according to a series of studies by the World Health Organization.

The National Assembly discussed the draft project on textbook reform yesterday, the national holiday for teachers.

A power outage from 11:05am to 12:25 am at the HCM City Area Control Centre (ACC/HCM) delayed three international flights and several domestic flights from Tan Son Nhat airport yesterday, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV).

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung will lead a Vietnamese delegation to attend the eighth Summit of the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam (CLV) Development Triangle in Vientiane, Laos from November 24-25.

Vietnam and Australia on November 20 conducted the third deputy foreign ministerial strategic defence dialogue in Canberra, Australia as a result of enhanced defence cooperation over the years.

Dao Tuan Dat, headmaster of Einstein High School in Hanoi shared his thoughts on the tradition of giving presents on Vietnamese Teachers' Day on November 20.