VIETNAM TODAY

A powerful unseasonal rainstorm caused damage to several houses in Can Gio District, Ho Chi Minh City.

A high-ranking defence delegation from Vietnam, led by Deputy Defence Minister Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Thanh Cung, conducted a working visit to Germany from March 12-17.

“Oi Gioi Oi” is one of the first respectable hip-hop tracks that has merged the western standard of hip-hop with Vietnamese samples.

More than 200 protesters gathered on Saturday in New York's Zuccotti Park to mark the six-month anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement and clashed with police, resulting in several arrests and three officers injured, officials said.

Work on universalising pre-school education across the country during the past two years has reaped encouraging results, especially in the development of kindergartens.

Two huge bomb blasts killed at least 27 people in the heart of the Syrian capital on Saturday, state media said, as international envoy Kofi Annan warned of regional fallout from the year-long bloodshed in Syria.

Despite economic difficulties and the high price of bird seed, more people in Danang have been taking on the hobby.

President Truong Tan Sang has paid working visits to the Central Highlands provinces of Kon Tum and Gia Lai to inspect their implementation of socio-economic development tasks.

The Ministry of Construction intends to inspect six low-income housing projects by three big companies.

The Union of European Football Associations has officially granted rights to Vietnam Television to broadcast the final rounds EURO 2012 in Vietnam.

A number of Vietnamese workers are facing challenges due to rising unemployment and inflation.

A seminar to raise initiatives on climate change among young people was held in Danang City on March 16.

Investors are retrieving their capital from Greece, Italy and Spain and other European Union countries to be channelled into Vietnam this year, said Radio the Voice of Russia.

New York art dealers might need to pull out marker pens and add zeros to their price tags during Asia Week sales starting this week in auction houses and galleries across the city.

The EVN has dismissed information published in some newspapers that the group has proposed the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Government to raise electricity prices by 5 percent.

Vietnam and Russia have signed an inter-governmental agreement on transporting highly enriched uranium fuel rods used by Da Lat nuclear reactor into Russia.

The US soldier who allegedly shot and killed 16 civilians in Afghanistan was identified.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has proposed that Vietnam and Laos boost bilateral cooperation, especially in economics, trade, and investment.

Voting began in East Timor's presidential election, seen as a crucial test for a young democracy taking charge of its own security as UN forces prepare to leave.