VIETNAM TODAY

Thang Long Bridge which connects Hanoi and Noi Bai Airport will be repaired at an estimated cost of VND12.05 billion. The work will be completed by 2016.

The Nhue and Day rivers in northern Ha Nam Province are being seriously polluted by waste water from craft villages, experts say.

About 1,000 delegates from around the world gathered yesterday in HCM City for the opening of the second Overseas Vietnamese conference.

No more Vietnamese workers would be sent to South Korea this year, according to the Overseas Worker Centre under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

Former Dutch player Edgar Davids arrived in HCM City on September 27 to attend the 2012 Tiger Street Football tournament.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade disagrees with the Ministry of Finance on listing imported fuels as consumer goods.

Honda Vietnam is recalling 152,053 Wave 110 RSX motorbikes due to improperly assembled taillight systems.

The NASA rover Curiosity has beamed back pictures of bedrock that suggest a fast-moving stream, possibly waist-deep, once flowed on Mars.

Vietnam’s rice output is expected to surpass 43 million tonnes in 2012, an increase of 1 million tonnes or 2.6 percent over the previous year.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu drew his "red line" for Iran's nuclear program on Thursday.

Vietnamese and French architects are co-operating on a master plan to restore and expand the central highlands city of Da Lat into an entity covering 3,300 sq.km.

A number of shops selling Mid-Autumn toys in Hanoi’s Old Quarter area have banned teenagers from photographing.

Traffic fatalities in the first nine months of this year dropped by 1,500 compared to the same period last year and the number of injured victims was down by 10,634.

Australians are suddenly a whole lot better off after the government statistician "found" 325 billion Australian dollars in share assets previously unrecognised.

Urban dwellers want to become self-sufficient in vegetables, because they fear the vegetables planted on dirty land and pesticide residues would harm their health.

Telephones and spare parts ranked second among Vietnam’s top ten export earners in the first eight months of this year.

Up to 13 auto enterprises attended a five-day auto event today in Hanoi.

The police have filed charges against former chairman of ACB Tran Xuan Gia and three other former bank officials.

The United States is to ease a ban on imports from Myanmar, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Myanmar leader Thein Sein, lifting the last major trade sanction on the country.