VIETNAM TODAY

The US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan was headed on a multi-nation tour through Asia and the Gulf ahead of two major conferences on Afghanistan's future..

Global stocks closed their worst quarter in nearly three years on nagging concerns about the world economy.

The Ho Chi Minh City police have saved 23 ethnic minority children who had been employed illegally at two unlicensed sewing factories.

Anwar al-Awlaqi, an Al-Qaeda leader wanted over attacks in the US, was killed Friday in an air raid in Yemen hailed by President Barack Obama as a "major blow" to terrorists.

Typhoon Nalgae was poised to hit the Philippines on Saturday, threatening more than a million people living in areas still flooded from a previous storm, officials said.

Actress Ly Nha Ky has been nominated as the first ever ambassador for Vietnam Tourism.

Inflation soared unexpectedly across the debt-laden eurozone in September, the EU said on Friday.

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.