VIETNAM TODAY

The Age Publishing House in coordination with the Vietnam Scientific Historical Association introduced two books to welcome the 11th National Party Congress.

Party members have shared their feelings on the threshold of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

Delegates to the 11th National Party Congress paid floral tribute to late President Ho Chi Minh at his mausoleum on Jan. 11, ahead of the preparatory session of the Congress.

Vietnam will provide Oman with a stable amount of farm products and foods in the long term as agreed at the first meeting of the two countries’ first joint cooperation committee.

Indonesia welcomed a promise by Canadian firm Research in Motion to filter its BlackBerry web services for pornography, after threatening to revoke the smartphone maker's licence.

Vietnam can look forward to free trade with the European Union (EU) as the two sides would officially kick off negotiations at the top level in 2011.

PM has pushed forward providing troubled Vinashin with interest-free loans to pay its employees from January 10.

Hanoi police discovered a production line that makes fake homemade vodka during their raid to a local wine company Monday.

Australia braced for a rapidly rising death toll Tuesday after flash floods killed eight and left 72 missing, as a quickly spreading flood disaster forced evacuations in central Brisbane.

About 30% businesses will be given an extra year to comply with new regulations for printing their own invoices.

Dozens of buffaloes in Sapa dropped dead from the severe cold, with temperatures there plummeting to nearly zero degrees.

The President of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations received a delegation of 13 professors, and experts from New York University on an official visit to Vietnam.

Japan said it was ready to buy bonds to be issued by the European Financial Stability Facility to help finance Ireland's bailout and support the debt-hit eurozone, report said.

Authorities are proposing measures to ensure price stability for the upcoming Tet holiday.

Japan has decided to grant Vietnam a loan of 40 billion yen (US $480 million) to help the country develop space exploration programs.

Price of parking in Hanoi has increased sharply because of steep rises in the number of cars, and shortage of parking lots.

Hanoi People’s Committee has decided to allocate nearly 200 billion VND as gifts to elderly and poor people.

Britain and China signed trade deals worth 2.6 billion pounds Monday and announced Beijing will loan a pair of giant pandas to Edinburgh Zoo for 10 years.

NASA has spotted a tiny, rocky planet about the size of Earth doing a speedy orbit of a star outside our solar system.