VIETNAM TODAY

Installation of a pipeline system under the Sai Gon River will dramatically curb pollution in HCM City's canals, city authorities said.

Experts blame the education sector for failing to foresee demand and churning out too many teachers.

Authorities in HCM City are speeding the implementation of projects to provide swimming lessons for school children.

Hanoi is expected to issue preservation regulations for colonial-era villas by year-end, a top planning official has said.

Samsung Electronics said it is trying to block the sale of Apple's newest iPhone in Japan and Australia.

The death toll from rains and mudslides across Central America rose to at least 80, officials said.

Twenty-year-old Phan Thi Ha Thanh won a bronze medal in the pommel horse event at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.

Global food price volatility will be the focus of World Food Day celebrations in Rome which will also address the issue of massive farmland purchases by rich countries.

Public investment coming under National Assembly supervision was among top issues discussed by the NA Standing Committee.

4 organizations, 7 individuals and 15 top female students were granted the “Vietnamese Women” award at a ceremony to mark the 81st anniversary of Vietnam Women’s Day.

Flooding triggered by torrential rains during the past days has badly affected the central region in Vietnam.

Chinese state media say that a tourist bus carrying many elderly passengers has overturned on a winding highway in southern China, leaving 10 people dead and 33 injured.

9 were killed as Syrian security forces pressed a crackdown on political dissent in protests against Bashar al-Assad's regime.

On October 16, a high-level political delegation from the Vietnam People’s Army left Hanoi for Laos to begin an official visit

Friendship unions of Vietnam and Cuba have agreed to join hands in organising people’s friendship activities and serve as a bridge for cooperation between the two countries.

Hundreds camped out in London, Frankfurt and Amsterdam after clashes in New York and Rome in worldwide protests.

The Vietnam Young Entrepreneurs’ Association hosted a ceremony in Hanoi to honor 200 leading Vietnamese businesses with the Vietnam Gold Star 2011 awards.

The Vietnamese national women’s football team left for Laos on Friday to take part in the 2011 ASEAN Football Federation Women's Championship.

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