VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnam’s first International Film Festival will take place in Hanoi from October 17 to 21, 2010 and will showcase the best in Vietnamese and global cinema.

Countries in the lower Mekong River region should delay any decisions about building hydropower dams for 10 years, an influential new study said Friday.

Unusual and severe weather of the transitional season have made old people and children in northern and southern Vietnam ill.

The aviation market in the first nine months saw a year-on-year increase of more than 20 percent in the number of passengers, estimated the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam.

Ha Tinh province on October 15 evacuated 1,000 families in Huong Son district to safe areas.

With public debt accounting for 51.7 percent of GDP, each Vietnamese citizen bears nearly $600 of public debt, according to The Economist magazine’s global debt clock.

Two International Grand Masters Le Quang Liem and Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son will compete in the Cap D’Agde Rapid Chess tournament in France from October 23-31.

Two new routes from the Russian cities of Khabarovsk and Vladivostok to Cam Ranh international airport in the central city of Nha Trang will be launched this winter.

The Asian Development Bank sees cooperation between Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia as vital to their economic future.

CBRE reported that while A grade office leasing in HCMC had slipped, B and C grade continued to shine in the 3rd quarter.

Vietnam Motor Show 2010 in Hanoi, the industry’s largest exhibition in the country, will feature key automakers from October 29 to November 2.

Many suspension bridges, which have been seriously degraded, are threatening lives in Khanh Hoa.

Carbon pollution and over-use of Earth's natural resources have become so critical that we will need a second planet to meet our needs by 2030, the WWF said.

The draft law on the amendments and supplements to the Business Insurance Law has been completed before being submitted to the NA for approval.

Google reported that its quarterly profit soared on the back of its thriving Internet advertising service and that its display and mobile ad businesses are taking wing.

#Hanoi1001, a three-day music festival to raise money for floods victims, will begin on October 22.

About 14,000 students in Quang Binh are unable to return to school due to damages from the recent flooding.

The 13th meeting of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee, 10th tenure, discussed and decided extreme important issues which prepare for the 11th National Party Congress.     

A draft State administrative reform plan has set a target of reducing the number of ministries and ministerial-level agencies to under 20 by 2015.