VIETNAM TODAY

China's booming car sales have had a devastating effect on the environment, the national environmental watchdog has warned.

A suicide bomb destroyed a Pakistani mosque, killing 61 people during the main weekly prayers and trapping human remains under a collapsed roof and pulverised rubble.

Deputy PM Pham Gia Khiem and representatives of provinces and relevant agencies met to review the implementation of the Politburo’s Decree 36 on overseas Vietnamese affairs.

More deaths have been attributed to flooding in south-central Vietnam while warnings of more severe weather were issued.

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport has just given a list of 45 riverside locations that are prone to landslides.

An experimental set of five new textbooks for first graders has created great interest among students and teachers at a private school in Hanoi.

Deputy Minister of Construction, Nguyen Tran Nam, has denied domestic cement redundancy in an interview with Dantri.

A Cuban airliner crashed in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board, while a charter aircraft crashed in Pakistan's Karachi on Friday, killing all 21 people on board.

The 8th Vietnam-France meeting on decentralised cooperation entitled “Linking for Sustainable Development” opened in Hai Phong on November 5.

The State Bank has begun taking measures to stabilise prices and the economy as 2010 comes towards an end.

Representatives from NGOs and local population officers have gathered in the northern province of Hoa Binh to share their visions on addressing gender imbalance.

All 20 people on board a privately-owned aircraft were killed after it crashed in Pakistan, while a Cuban airliner crashed with 68 people aboard.

Heavy rain in Vietnam's Central Highlands coffee belt in the past week has disrupted coffee harvesting, but the crop remains safe, traders and state media said.

Vietnam has thrived in attracting foreign construction companies, said the CEO of an international construction firm.

Norway topped the 2010 United Nations' Human Development Index, while Asia has made the biggest strides in recent decades.

The death toll from Indonesia's fiery volcano has nearly doubled to 79 after a blistering gas cloud ripped through a mountainside village.

In 2011, Ho Chi Minh City expects to receive 3.5 million foreign guests, 11% higher than this year

Vietnam will not take any moves to depreciate the Vietnamese dong against US dollar until Tet or February next year.

Haitian leaders urged many displaced in tent cities to evacuate as a deadly storm bore down on the quake-hit Caribbean nation.