VIETNAM TODAY

PM Nguyen Tan Dung called on ASEAN member states to make greater efforts to shape a common voice in major issues.

Miguel Angel Jimenez became the oldest winner on the European Tour by clinching victory in the Hong Kong Open at the age of 48 years and 318 days.

After months of investigation that began last year, the police in Ho Chi Minh City have proposed to the local prosecutor to indict three people involved in a drug trafficking ring, for illegally trading in medicines used for colds

It has been estimated that 2.3-4.3 million Vietnamese men will be unable to find a wife due to the country’s gender imbalance.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said on November 16 that China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will keep working on establishing a Code of Conduct in the East Sea (COC).

Italian doctor Roberto De Castro has begun examining 50 children who suffer from genital malformations in the central region.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on November 17 left Hanoi for the 21 st ASEAN Summit and related summits hosted by Cambodia.

Israel destroyed the headquarters of Hamas' PM and blasted a network of smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip.

Vietnam’s university education still cannot integrate fully into the world because Vietnamese still do not have the foreign language skills and a good enough reasonable management mechanism.

Vietnam is in dire need of about 444,500 medical staff by 2015, said the Ministry of Health at a meeting, held to implement plans to increase more human resources in the medical sector.

Viettel's Unitel company, based in Laos, won the 2012 World Communication Award for Best Operator in a Developing Market on Tuesday.

Quite a few household electrical appliances will not get energy labels before the year’s end as required as the testing process is now overloaded due to the lack of testing agencies.

The most important air monitory equipment in HCM City have got “retired” after a long working period.

National Assembly deputies proposed not to use funds from traffic violations to pay bonuses to police, as is currently the policy.

US authorities sued online retail giant eBay, claiming it was part of a conspiracy with software maker Intuit to refrain from hiring each other's employees to keep salaries under control.

A number of power transformer stations in the central province of Quang Ngai are reported not to be producing to capacity.

Five hundreds delegates met at the second general conference of the Grace Southern Baptist General Confederation in HCM City.

Nguyen Anh Khoi extended his unbeaten run by beating Abdulla Gadimbayli of Azerbaijan at the World Youth Chess Championships.

The French and Polish presidents agreed to lobby for strong development and farm spending as economic stimulus.