A Ho Chi Minh City appeals court handed down a three-year jail term to a Hanoian for smuggling rhinoceros horns from South Africa into Vietnam in 2008.
Building a shared border of peace and friendship between Vietnam and Cambodia was the main topic of a conference held in the south -western province of Tay Ninh.
Rescue workers and troops in Pakistan struggled to reach thousands of people affected by the country's worst floods in living memory, as the death toll rose to 800.
Electricity of Vietnam started talks with a group of banks for a five-year loan of about $300 million, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The slow clearance of land and a lack of consensus are likely to mean the Cat Linh - Ha Dong urban railway is not built within the scheduled four years.