VIETNAM TODAY

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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Protesters torched cars and smashed up banks in Rome in the worst violence of worldwide demonstrations against corporate greed and government cutbacks.

ASEAN trade ministers have pledged to accelerate the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community by 2015.

Authorities in Hanoi announced a plan for a land development fund with an initial capital of VND1 trillion.

Vietnam and China issued a joint statement on the occasion of Vietnamese Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong’s official visit to China.

Europe sought Saturday to convince its G20 partners that it can resolve a debt crisis that is threatening to drag the world economy back into recession.

Operational small and medium enterprises discharge a huge volume of waste daily; but how to settle the pollution is troubling policy makers.

Visitors have a chance to sample different language courses and learn their first words in a new language at a Goethe Institute Hanoi event.

Producers and exporters from Europe, the US and Australia have been promoting the sale of farm produce to Vietnam.

Ao Dai fashion show and a folk music performance were held at a “Vietnamese Cultural Night” held at West Virginia University on October 12.

Al-Qaeda donated food, money and clothes to Somalia in an apparent publicity push showing its close ties with the Shebab rebels, said a service.