VIETNAM TODAY

The first ever Vietnam-Latin America Trade and Investment Forum opened in Hanoi in the presence of Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

The Royal Cambodian Army’s naval command headquarters, a friendship gift from the Vietnam Naval High Command, was inaugurated in Kampong Speu province, Cambodia.

Capital invested in the stock market has doubled, but the amount invested on issuing shares has reduced 50%.

The United Nations called for a tax on billionaires to help raise more than $400 billion a year for poor countries.

Many children in Hanoi are losing their recreation venues as traders encroach on their playgrounds.

The capital city of Hanoi has set a target of reaching a per-capita income of around USD7,500 a year by 2020.

Last year's nuclear accident at Fukushima was a man-made catastrophe and not only due to the tsunami that hit the plant.

Deputy PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc has instructed that task forces be established to inspect, supervise and, if necessary, penalise cases of corruption at all levels.

South Korea came under pressure from outraged governments and environmentalists to scrap plans to kill whales under a "scientific" research programme denounced as a sham.

Three commercial joint stock banks in Vietnam have appointed new CEOs this week.

If reasonable investments are made, Vietnam would be able to decode the genome of about 100 Vietnamese people by 2015.

The sixth Vietnam International Federation of Cinema and Television Sports Festival officially opened yesterday at Hanoi Opera House.

Mexico's national election authority announced a recount of ballots cast at more than half of the polling stations in the country's presidential election.

Greece's new government formally looks to push privatisation so as to win favour and funds from EU-IMF creditors who are inspecting the country's strained finances.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung said the low GDP growth rate this year is acceptable when other factors are taken into account.

Greenpeace activists protested plans by Indonesia to build Southeast Asia's biggest coal power plant, saying it would sully coastal waters and strip the livelihoods of fishermen.

The deputy governor of the State Bank of Vietnam attended a media conference to respond to questions regarding which gold bar brand name will be chosen as a state brand.

The Hai Phong Inmarsat Land Earth Station has received an SOS signal from the Anh Son, the Vietnamese timber cargo vessel, that lost contact in the area off the West Bengal coast.

Vietnam refuted reports by Chinese media that four Chinese marine surveillance ships “blocked” and “chased” Vietnamese ships in the Truong Sa Archipelago.