VIETNAM TODAY

A German state has banned Facebook contact between students and teachers, citing the social media network's storage of personal data for commercial purposes, officials said Tuesday.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has worked with a delegation from the Global Green Growth Institute to discuss water resources and green growth-related issues in the Mekong River region.

Reporters from Vietnam, the US, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Poland gathered at an October 22 seminar in Hanoi to discuss Vietnamese language instruction for expatriate Vietnamese communities.

A beauty salon in Hanoi has admitted that they threw a female customer into the Red River after she died from their treatment.

President Rosen Plevneliev will pay a State-level visit to Vietnam from October 27-31 at the invitation of President Truong Tan Sang, according to the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Customs seized a truck illegally carrying nearly 800 pigeons from China to Vietnam across the border in northeastern Quang Ninh Province's border gate Mong Cai City on Sunday.

Thick smog enveloped a Chinese city for a third day Tuesday, with schools and a regional airport shuttered and low visibility forcing ground transport to a halt in places.

A seminar was held in Singapore on October 21 to promote investment in the opening of an international air route from Da Lat to Singapore.

Hanoi authorities set a target to settle the issue of many land plots left idle or used for wrong purposes over the past years, but to date they have still failed to control the problem.

A Vietnam Airlines flight from Haiphong to Danang lost a wheel after landing at Danang International Airport on October 21.

Hanoi is striving to generate jobs for all people with disabilities at the working age in the city by 2020, planning a yearly investment of 2-3 billion VND (41,000 USD) in vocational training for them.

Apple is on Tuesday expected to show off slick new iPads to take on rival tablet makers during the prime year-end holiday shopping season.

President Truong Tan Sang received visiting General Director of the Russian news agency ITAR-TASS Sergei Mikhailov in Hanoi on October 21, suggesting him do more to foster the friendship between the two countries.

The Vietnamese squad is scheduled to meet Thailand at the 2013 Mekong Region U23 International Football Tournament (BIDC Cup), according to a draw held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on October 21.

Duong Chi Dung’s corruption case at Vinalines has aroused great public criticism and the punishment he gets will measure the country’s anti-corruption will, one official has said.

Regular exercise boosts teenagers' school grades -- and particularly helps girls in science, a British study said Tuesday.

The northern mountainous province of Lao Cai expects to welcome the one-millionth tourist this year during a festival celebrating the 110th anniversary of Sa Pa , the province’s renown resort town, slated for October 25 - November 3.

The Government has proposed the National Assembly raise the 2013-14 budget deficits to 5.3% of GDP to meet development investment requirements and pay debts.

Prosecutors of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) demanded the maximum possible sentence of life imprisonment for two former top Khmer Rouge leaders at a trial on crimes against humanity on October 21.