VIETNAM TODAY

The Australian parliament which meets this week will not only be unusual, it could also be short-lived, experts say.

The Vietnam Northern Food Corporation has signed a contract to export 200,000 tonnes of rice to Cuba, announced the Vietnam Food Association.

President Nguyen Minh Triet has proposed ASEAN and the US to further promote their cooperative relations in various fields.

Nearly 200 photos taken and collected by foreign expatriates in Vietnam as well as photographers from many countries are on display in Hanoi.

The 28th session of the Vietnam-Cuba Inter-governmental Committee for economic, scientific and technological cooperation was opened in Havana on September 23-24.

The Ministry of Finance is reviewing milk prices and the cause for their changes.

The 6th annual CIO Summit & Awards end yesterday in Hanoi and have honoured 12 of the most outstanding Chief Information Officers in the Asean region.

A senior EU trade official says that Vietnam will meet all the five criteria for the world’s largest trading bloc to recognise the country as having a market economy by 2018.

President Barak Obama and President Nguyen Minh Triet co-chaired the second ASEAN-US Leaders’ Meeting in New York on September 24.

Leaders of the two rival Palestinian movements Fatah and Hamas held reconciliation talks in the Syrian capital and said they wanted the discussions to continue.

Construction of the first urban railway linking Nhon and the Hanoi Railway Station starts today in the capital.

A failure to treat poaching, wildlife trade as serious crimes is pushing tigers to extinction, experts warn

The country’s Consumer Price Index in September went up by 1.31 percent over the previous month, the highest level for September of any year since 2000.

Vietnam needs to build a child protection system that paves the way to long-term, sustainable solutions to prevent the abuse of children.

Apple on Saturday launched the latest version of its iPhone in China and opened another two stores in Beijing and Shanghai.

In the past few years, a house in Paris has become a familiar spot for many people with an interest in Vietnam.

700 delegates from ASEAN social organisations, non-governmental organisations, and regional and global consultancy organisations are attending the sixth ASEAN People’s Forum.

As many as 274 badminton players across the world will compete in the Vietnam Grand Prix 2010 in Ho Chi Minh City on October 5-10.

The Doha round of negotiations and impacts on Vietnam was the main topic of a seminar held in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa on Sept. 24.