VIETNAM TODAY

A Vietnam-Japan friendship concert, featuring Mandolin orchestra of Meiji University, Japan, took place at Hanoi’s Au Co theatre on September 15.

Italy continues to give priority to Vietnam in its cooperation development policy, affirmed Deputy Foreign Minister Staffan De Mistura at a political consultation with his visiting Vietnamese counterpart Bui Thanh Son.

Police in Hanoi is hunting for a businesswoman who has appropriated about US$867,000 from her Japanese partner and fled.

Undercover FBI agents arrested an 18-year-old American man who tried to detonate what he believed was a car bomb outside a downtown Chicago bar, federal prosecutors said.

Ministers of tourism from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam agreed that the four countries will work together to attract 25 million international visitors to the region from 2013 to 2015.

The Australian government, a member of the "2012 Making the World Cleaner" campaign, is helping Vietnam with its own clean-up movement, which is taking place from September 14-16.

One hundred Nigerians are attending a one-year sailor training course at Bach Nghe College in the northern port city of Hai Phong, which started in early August.

It’s now the time for new university graduates to rush buy counterfeit degrees and certificates, which help them make-up for their profiles in the employers’ eyes.

Three hospitals in Vietnam have been presented with Hospital Management Asia prizes 2012 for their improved quality and social responsibility.

Illegal online games are being accessed in Vietnam through servers from other countries, and industry observers are warning the country could be flooded with such products.

The Geological Division for Radioactive and Rare Elements says that it has defined the groups of mines and the radiation fields that need to be controlled or intervened.

The cremated remains of legendary American astronaut Neil Armstrong were scattered at sea, in a ceremony aboard a US aircraft carrier paying final tribute to the first man to set foot on the moon.

Vietnam’s surprising 3-2 win against Japan has landed them in the 2012 Asian Women's Cup Volleyball Championship quarterfinals, which is being held in Kazakhstan.

Local gold buyers jostled to sell their bullion as domestic gold price skyrocketed to VND47.4 million a tael, the highest since September 2011.

The head of Libya's national assembly blamed Al-Qaeda for an attack on the US consulate in the city of Benghazi that killed ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

Despite the increased number of illegal foreign traders in Vietnam, the Government has found it hard to prosecute them.

The Central Highlands provinces have provided free housing to 18,695 ethnic-minority households with a total population of 80,000, according to the region's Steering Committee.

A number of young women have been opting to stage wedding photographs as a way to ease their loneliness.

The Justice Ministry has presented to the NA a draft law on civil status registry, under which every citizen will be granted one single identification number to be used on all licenses.