VIETNAM TODAY

Military engineers are working under the greatest of urgency to repair the temporary floating bridge at Duong River after this morning accident.

Deputy PM Hoang Trung Hai urged all relevant cities and provinces to ask their local ships to moor at shelters in face of the ongoing Chanthu Storm.

Central Vietnam has seen a tourist boom this year, welcoming 30-40% more tourists than last year.

Half a billion. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called it a nice number.

A large barge traveling across the Duong River crashed into a floating bridge today, causing major traffic problems in Hanoi.

The Friendship-Friendship Gate tourism complex will be built across the sino Vietnamese border to bolster the two countries’ friendship and cooperative relations.

Bangladesh Food Minister Abdur Razzak said the government would import 50,000 to one lakh metric tonnes of rice from Vietnam soon.

Whilst Vietnam is still actively pursuing investments from overseas Vietnamese nationals, domestic companies are investing abroad, notably in real estate.

Vietnam’s Atomic Energy Institute and China’s Guangdong Nuclear Power Group signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in nuclear power.

U.S. President Obama signed into law the most sweeping overhaul of lending and high-finance rules since the Great Depression.

Vietnamese Deputy PM and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Gia Khiem presided over the ASEAN+3 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting.

Ethnic minority people in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong have agreed to work together to fight against climate change.

China has said it plans to invest 738 billion dollars developing clean energy over the next decade.

Vietnam could see rare changes made to its Constitution as amendments are being discussed by the National Assembly.

The PetroVietnam Construction Joint Stock Corporation is planning to build a 528-m tower, the second tallest building in Asia.

Five American professors are going to teach at Vietnamese universities for the 2010/2011 academic year.

The Government issued a new decree, regulating investment and co-operation with foreign partners in the area of science and technology.

Ly Tong, an American of Vietnamese origin, was arrested by Santa Clara police in California for allegedly attacking a Vietnamese singer.

PetroVietnam and Korea’s leading steelmaker POSCO signed a memorandum of understanding for developing Vietnamese electricity projects.