VIETNAM TODAY

Eight worshippers including two children were killed in twin bomb blasts Thursday at a packed Sufi shrine in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi.

Vietnam's U-16 football team will be going for broke to qualify for the quarter-finals at the Asian Football Confederation U16 Championship in Uzbekistan.

The 13th Conference of the 10th Party Central Committee will heighten the sense of responsibility, promote democracy, and make correct and wise decisions on key national issues.

General Motors recalled 3,996 Cadillac SRX sport utility vehicles in the United States and China because of a defect which could cause a fire in the engine.

The World Wide Fund for Nature has announced the list of 145 new species discovered in the Mekong River region as a proof for the "biological treasure" of the river.

DanTri/DTiNews will soon fund VND30 million ($1,530) to assist flood-hit households in Quang Binh province.

Peruvian-born writer won the 2010 Nobel prize for literature, the awarding committee said.

Students are not interested in the scientific projects assigned to them, university instructors prefer giving lectures to conducting research.

Prince Andrew, the Duke of York will have busy days in Vietnam during its millennium celebrations.

Prices of about 300 consumer commodities, particularly dairy products, have jumped on the Hanoi market.

By late October 6, floods in the Quang Binh had caused 28 deaths, 17 injuries and an unknown amount of missing persons.

Since mini-apartments were legalised in Hanoi, the market quickly developed throughout the city.

The General Secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party, Nong Duc Manh, held a meeting with 50 overseas Vietnamese.

The Tourism Authority of Thailand and Vietnam National Tourism Administration will coordinate to discuss ways to carry out the program, namely “1 million tourists in 2015”.

An online conference was held in Hanoi on October 6 to discuss measures to ensure a balance between supply and demand to stabilise the prices of commodities.

The potential for economic co-operation between Vietnam and South Africa remains huge, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung told visiting South African Deputy President.

Southeast Asian nations should encourage businesses to protect the region's endangered plants and animals by showing profit can be made from biodiversity.

30,000 people joined in the final rehearsal at My Dinh Stadium to prepare for the great October 10 gala night.

 Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has had separate bilateral meetings with leaders who attend the eighth Asia-Europe Meeting Summit in Belgium.