VIETNAM TODAY

Thousands of people remained patient to pay tribute to General Giap in front of his house on the final day it was opened to the public.

Today, convening in Brunei for the annual East Asia Summit, 18 leaders endorsed the creation of an Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance to promote regional collaboration against the disease.

Vietnam will start listing Government-guaranteed bonds at the Singapore Stock Exchange from October 11 to help the troubled Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin) repay its creditors.

Tropical storm NARI, located over the eastern Philippine Sea, is forecast to hit the eastern East Sea early Saturday.

A fire broke out at a Japanese hospital early Friday, killing 10 people, the police said.

Ho Chi Minh City’s Tourism Promotion Centre, in coordination with the city’s Tourism Association and the Saigon International Film School, are running a Vietnamese street cuisine filmmaking competition from October 7 to December 7.

The Traditional Craft Village Tourism Festival of Hanoi and the Red River Delta let down many visitors because of poor preparation, both by the organisers and the participants.

The 23 rd ASEAN Summit and related meetings closed in Brunei’s capital city Bandar Seri Begawan on October 10, wrapping up the year Brunei plays ASEAN Chair.

Vietnamese and Chinese experts conducted the fourth round of negotiations on demarcation of the sea area off the Bac Bo (Tonkin) Gulf in Beijing on October 7-9.

Vietnam gives top priority to adapting to climate change to minimize the consequences of floods, tidal surges, salt infiltration, and landslides, says Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai.

Canada's Alice Munro won the Nobel Literature Prize for her short stories that focus on the frailties of the human condition.

Thousands of books are on display at Autumn Book Fair 2013 which opened at the Vietnam Women’s Museum in Hanoi on October 10.

Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was kidnapped from his Tripoli hotel at dawn on Thursday by an armed group and taken to an unknown location, the government and sources said.

Many heads of state and government, and leaders of foreign political parties have sent condolences to Vietnam over the death of General Vo Nguyen Giap.

There are many foreign investors waiting to buy bad debts from the Vietnam Asset Management Company but they are challenged by complicated procedures.

The Haiphong Customs Department yesterday said they seized 1,167 pieces of elephant tusks weighing 2.1 tonnes being illegally transported to the city.

Vietnam has seen a sharp rise in the rate of obese children, particularly in big cities like HCM City where the number of overweight children under five is 9.6%.

Floods from Mekong river and heavy rains have killed at least 104 people and affected the daily life of about 1.5 million others in Cambodia over the past three weeks.

Leaders of ASEAN and the Republic of Korea have agreed to lift up two-way trade value to US$150 billion by 2015.