VIETNAM TODAY

An auto company whose shipment of vehicles has been stuck at Dinh Vu Port for two years, sent a petition to the Minister of Finance for help.

The 19th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF 19) took place in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with the participation of 10 ASEAN members and the bloc’s important partners.

More than 100 people who rushed to scoop up fuel after a Nigerian petrol tanker tipped over were burned to death when the vehicle and spilled oil caught fire.

Millions of pre-paid mobile phone subscribers in HCM City may have to re-register their personal information.

Seven Chinese clinics in HCM City have been found to be supplying medicine of unclear origin that advertise exaggerated benefits.

Hanoi aims to put an end to flooding in the city’s centre by 2015.

Syrian government troops massacred more than 200 people in Hama province, a rebel leader said.

The average price increase on Vietnamese drugs was higher than on their foreign counterparts.

Vietnam will tighten checks and quarantine procedures on the border with Cambodia to protect the country from an unidentified disease that has killed 56 Cambodians recently.

Reports that there will be 4 power price adjustments this year has been the cause of worry.

Afghan President called on Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar to give up fighting his US-backed government in return for the chance to run for president of the war-torn nation.

Ministries, branches and localities should strictly implement works on nine World Bank-funded projects to bring them out of the slow-disbursement list by 2012.

The Ministry of Construction has asked the Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam to appraise and provide capital for seven low-income housing projects.

At least six people died, 18 were missing and 50,000 ordered to evacuate as the heaviest rainfall on record pounded the southwestern Japanese island of Kyushu.

Fans descend on San Diego for the annual Comic-Con festival of pop culture, with highlights including the long-awaited "Hobbit" and last "Twilight" films, in a four-day geekfest.

The ships flying the Vietnamese flag now have the golden opportunity to regain the domestic container shipping market which is being controlled by foreign shipping firms.

After their discovery, a number of tombs with mummified remains believed to be hundreds of years old have been lost or destroyed.

Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi will respect a court ruling overturning his decree for the dissolved Islamist-dominated parliament to convene.

Nearly 42,000 hectares of agricultural land in Hanoi have been slated for use for other purposes by 2020.