VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnamese piano prodigy, Trang Trinh, will give a solo concert at the French Cultural Centre in Hanoi on November 3.

Vietnam and Russia have signed a minute on the establishment of the Vietnam-Russia University of Technology in Hanoi.

Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang held talks with his Philippine counterpart, Benigno S. Aquino III in Manila on October 26.

Viet Nam currently pursues a foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, peace, cooperation, multilateralization and diversification of international relations.

China and other emerging powers have agreed to help eurozone countries facing a debt crisis by taking part in a bailout fund, the China Daily said.

The EADS Innovation Works of Singapore has pledged to help Vietnam seek methods of biomass measurement and landslide forecast.

Manchester United shrugged off their mauling against Manchester City to book their place in the quarter-finals of the League Cup.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade allowed EVN to raise power prices higher than the Govt’s approved rate, an agency said.

The Ministry of Transport has recommended the Hanoi People’s Committee to study the construction of three new overpasses.

Up to 3,780 poor households in the city will be funded to repair or build houses.

Vietnamese grandmaster Le Quang Liem, the world number 25 with an Elo rating of 2717, crowned the championship title at the Spice Cup on October 25.

The national trade deficit in the first 10 months of this year was kept at nearly $8.4 billion, according to the General Statistics Office.

European leaders faced intense pressure to deliver on a promise to resolve the debt crisis at a summit crucial to the world economy as they battled to protect Italy from collapse.

Recent outbreaks of blue-ear disease among pigs in five provinces have caused severe losses to farmers, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development reported.

China's one-child policy has prevented almost half a billion births but has turned into a demographic time bomb as the population ages.

President Truong Tan Sang will pay an official visit to the Philippines to promote the relation and friendship and multifaceted cooperation between the two countries.

The Philippines has handed over to Vietnam seven fishing vessels seized on May 30, 2011, according to the Vietnamese Embassy in the Philippines.

Up to 90 people in a northern commune have been recorded as living with HIV/AIDS, after a gold rush gripped the area.

The Thu Thiem ferry terminal in HCM City will officially close at the beginning of next year, 35 years after it became operational.