VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnam’s circus has won many accolades in international competitions, where circus artists had an opportunity to prove their prowess by taking up international challenges.

The Border Guard Force of the central coastal city of Da Nang on Aug. 27 handed over a Filipino fisherman to the Philippine Embassy in Vietnam.

Hurricane Irene tore into New York, hammering Manhattan's skyscrapers with fierce winds and threatening to flood the financial district after killing at least nine people along the US east coast.

A fire broke out in Keangnam Hanoi Landmark Tower, the tallest building in Vietnam, at 2:00 pm on August 27.

The HCM City Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs says it will continue to implement many policies on providing welfare and healthcare for senior citizens.

China's Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has ratified the Third Protocol Amending the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia.

Hurricane Irene killed at least eight people along the US east coast, cut power supplies to nearly a million and churned toward a direct hit on an anxious New York city.

The property market is likely to witness more mergers and acquisitions in the next 12 months if it continues facing capital shortage.

Vietnam’s 1A National Highway has been nominated as the world’s best cycling route by ‘Lonely Planet’, a travel guidebook.

The first buses in Vietnam using energy-efficient fuel made their debut on August 26 in HCM City.

FDI projects in Vietnam have disbursed a total of $7.3 billion in the first eight months of 2011, said the Foreign Investment Department.

Vietnam’s first oil refinery Dung Quat has resumed operation after temporarily halting for maintenance, an official has said.

Hurricane Irene zeroed in on land, losing some power but still whipping up trouble. More than 2 million people were told to move to safer places.

Fabregas was on target two minutes from time after coming on as a substitute just eight minutes earlier.

The court of Palawan province of the Philippines released 85 Vietnamese fishermen, said the Vietnamese Embassy in the country.

Vietnam’s agro-forestry-fishery export turnover reached USD16.4 billion in the first eight months of this year, a year-on-year rise of 34.2 percent.

Hurricane Irene closed in on the Atlantic coast on Friday, triggering emergency preparations that included unprecedented evacuations and mass transit shutdowns in New York City.

After being struck by strong winds and rough waves yesterday afternoon, a fishing boat working off Con Dao Island with five fishermen on board was submerged and gradually sank.

Vietnam is finding ways to lower deposit rates in order to drag lending interest rate down in an effort to stimulate lending.