VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnamese top player Nguyen Tien Minh is back in the world top 20, nudging his way up to the 17th spot in the latest Badminton World Federation rankings with total points of 42,720.

Dinh Dinh Nhan has become the first Vietnamese student securing GISF, an international security certification, with a score of 87 percent.

China launched its first space mission to the moon and back early Friday, authorities said, the latest step forward for Beijing's ambitious programme to one day land a Chinese citizen on the Earth's only natural satellite.

Malaysia aims to attract 29.4 million visitors in 2015, the Malaysia Year of Festival (MyFEST), earning 89 billion MYR (over 27 billion USD), according to the Tourism and Culture Ministry.

Thousands of ethnic Cham and tourists travelled to the Po Inu Nagar Temple, Po Klong Garai Tower and Po Rome Tower in the central province of Ninh Thuan to celebrate the traditional Kate festival that kicked off yesterday.

Several international and private schools in Hanoi charge very high tuition fees, sometimes reaching the hundreds of millions of VND per year.

Vietnam ranked third in Asia among the most attractive destination for expats, according to a survey conducted by HSBC.

TripAdvisor, the world’s largest travel website, has named three Vietnamese museums – the Museum of Ethnology, the Women’s Museum and the War Remnants Museum – in the top 25 most attractive museums in Asia.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and his spouse are to pay an official visit to India from October 27-29, according to the Foreign Ministry.

All activities by the concerned parties in the area without Vietnam’s permission are illegal and invalid, said Vice spokeswoman for Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry Pham Thu Hang on October 23.

The annual meeting and conference of the Eastern Region Organisation for Public Administration (EROPA) closed in Hanoi on October 23 after five days of discussions on how to improve public administration and governance in the context of global integration.

The Nepali Embassy in India announced on October 21 that the death toll from the devastating snowstorm in Nepal’s Himalayas that struck on October 15 did not include any Vietnamese.

China's defense minister has met with Iran's navy commander in the latest sign of warming ties between their two militaries.

Enterprises in the southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City need to employ 30,000 new members of staff in November, including 10,000 seasonal contracts to fill orders from domestic and foreign buyers.

There are no alleged “prisoners of conscience” in Vietnam, the Foreign Ministry’s Vice Spokesperson Pham Thu Hang affirmed.

A door assembling factory for Boeing airplanes was inaugurated in Thang Long Industrial Park in Hanoi on October 22 by the Japanese Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Aerospace Vietnam Co., Ltd (MHIVA).

Pu Mat National Park has just released a number of rare species caught by hunters.

Hanoi-based Quoc Oai General Hospital has suspended a nurse who failed to notify doctors about the condition of a 11-year-old girl who died while being treated there.

The Prime Minister issued a decision on October 22 to approve an action plan to develop the shipbuilding industry.