VIETNAM TODAY

District People's Committees in Hanoi have been asked to report on the situation regarding school shortages.

Many young models and beauty queens will gather in the “Charity Fashion” show to raise funds for orphans in Hanoi on October 2.

Businesses are struggling with rising inventory on the back of a bleak economy.

The alarm bell over the pollution of craft villages in Hanoi has been rung over the last many years, but, no proper solutions have been found.

Japan's finance minister said that Japan will secure an additional 15 trillion yen in funds it can use to intervene in currency markets.

Typhoon Nesat hit Vietnam’s northern provinces on September 30, causing heavy rains and strong gusts.

Many localities in Vietnam have been racing to build industrial parks, ignoring land use and environmental issues.

Floods caused by Typhoon Nesat have killed eight people in the Mekong Delta, said the Steering Committee for Flood, Storm Prevention & Control.

A delegation from Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species Vietnam is on a working visit to South Africa from Sept. 26 to Oct.1.

There were hopes there could be survivors from an Indonesian plane that crashed with 18 people aboard, the government said, after rescuers spotted the fuselage intact and a door open.

Police in the central Nghe An Province have caught three men with 209 kg of ivory thought to be smuggled in from abroad following a tip-off from the public.

At 118, Nguyen Thi Tru of Ho Chi Minh City is probably the world’s oldest but she says she has no desire of being registered in the Guinness Book of Worlds Record.

In the ultimate accolade for the world's mad scientists, spoof Nobel prizes were awarded for studies into beetle sex, yawning, and other daffy investigations.

The State Bank has continued dealing with abuses by banks trying to apply deposit interest rates higher than the permitted level.

Vietnam and the Netherlands are expected to further their energy cooperation after a series of agreements were signed during PM Nguyen Tan Dung’s visit.

Many schools in Tien Giang Province are in such a poor condition that they can collapse anytime in these rainy days.

The Vietnamese embassy in Cambodia has supported Vietnamese residents in the country hit by the recent floods.

The Obama administration is taking steps to extend new federal protections to a list of imperiled animals and plants.

Many cultural events will be held in Brussels on October 4-8 to introduce Vietnam’s cinematography to Belgian people.