VIETNAM TODAY

Around 180 businesses and establishments from all cities and provinces have registered to showcase their products at the Hanoi Agricultural and Craft Village Fair slated for October 24-27, the Hanoi Department of Agriculture and Rural Development announced on October 10.

Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for advocating girls' right to education, and Indian campaigner against child trafficking and labor Kailash Satyarthi won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

A Buddhist monk in Can Tho City has been suspended from his post at a local pagoda for three months after a scandal involving photos of a young man thought to be him were posted on Facebook recently.

The bodies of a Vietnamese woman and her two children killed in the MH17 disaster have been identified in the Netherlands, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Japan was bracing on Friday for its strongest storm this year, a super typhoon powering north toward the Okinawa island chain that threatens to rake a wide swathe of the nation with strong winds and torrential rain.

A one-year-old Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica) has been moved to the northern Ninh Binh Province's Cuc Phuong National Park for further care.

Many cốm, or green rice flake, makers in Hanoi have suffered from slow sales as consumers turn their backs on the product after a recent scandal over use of an additive.

The capital Hanoi will let off fireworks at 9pm on October 10 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of its Liberation Day.

The national flag carrier, Vietnam Airlines, plans to add 1,200 flights from January 28, 2015 to March 18, 2015 to meet the increased demand for air travel and reduce airport overload during Tet holiday.

Global Shapers Community-Hanoi Hub in coordination with the World Economic Forum on October 9 held a press conference regarding the upcoming SHAPE Asia-Pacific 2014 workshop in Hanoi.

The Nha Trang City Labour Union has introduced a new fishing society for Huong Xuan Ward, which will exclusively work at Hoang Sa and Truong Sa islands.

French writer Patrick Modiano has won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature for works that made him "a Marcel Proust of our time," the Swedish Academy said on Thursday.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung will pay official visits to Belgium, the European Union (EU) and Germany from October 13-15.

The government of Vietnam has recently decided to spend VND3 trillion on climate change related projects, said Deputy PM Hoang Trung Hai.

Construction workers on the recently-completed Noi Bai-Lao Cai Highway blocked the road they built from traffic, forcing the project investor to ask their contractor to pay their employees.

China’s efforts to construct a 2,000m airstrip in Vietnam’s Paracel archipelago do not alter the fact that Vietnam holds indisputable sovereign rights over the archipelago, an official confirmed.

Vietnam ’s U19 football team got off to a bad start at the Asian Football Confederation’s U19 Championship in Myanmar, losing 0-6 to the Republic of Korea (RoK) on October 9.

Vietnam’s chess star, Le Quang Liem, playing for the Webster University chess team, will be competing in the US$1 million Millionaire Chess Open – the highest stakes open chess tournament in history – to be held in Las Vegas

As many as 757,000 children under 14 in 26 provinces and cities across the country had received measles-rubella shots by October 6 under a free vaccination campaign run by the Ministry of Health (MoH).