VIETNAM TODAY

Hai Phong will host the 8th Vietnam-France Decentralisation Conference on November 4-11.

Government chief Nguyen Tan Dung on Monday in Hanoi hosted a reception to former Japan PM Yukio Hatoyama who is leading a Japanese parliamentarian delegation on a working visit to Vietnam.

President Nicolas Sarkozy's government warned Monday that strikes against pension reform have cost up to three billion euros.

The National Assembly was warned that Vietnam may face dangers similar to Hungary if the country continues carrying out a bauxite exploitation project in the Central Highlands.

The government has said it will tighten control over the leasing of forest land to foreign investors

Transfer pricing is continuing to screw-down foreign-invested enterprises’ modest tax contributions to Vietnam’s state budget.

It is time to tighten imports of technological devices because the practice is pushing Vietnam into becoming a technology dump, experts say.

Washington came under increasing pressure to investigate allegations in the leaked Iraq war documents published by WikiLeaks.

Police have arrested a bus driver who ignored warnings and went into a flooded area where the vehicle was swept away last week, leaving 20 people dead or missing.

Vietnam sent a police boat to Hoang Sa archipelago to take nine fishermen home.

The 2nd deadly flood to hit Vietnam this year has left 86 schools in Huong Khe District, central Ha Tinh Province, buried in mud.

At least 14 people have been killed and 58 more injured in a fire at an oil well in central Myanmar, but the cause was unknown, an official in the military-ruled country said Monday.

The recent deadly flood has totally destroyed a section of railway running through the central province of Ha Tinh.

An association set up to provide compensation and assistance to families of fallen servicemen was introduced in Hanoi.

The second ASEAN Conference on Traditional Medicines will take place in Hanoi from October 31 to November 2.

2010 has been a hectic year for the Vietnamese anti-virus market with a number of new products from domestic as well as foreign providers introduced to the market.

An Giang Province has asked businesses and farmers to cooperate to build tra and basa fish farming areas which meet Global Good Agricultural Practice standards.

A cholera outbreak that already has left 250 people dead and more than 3,000 sickened is at the doorstep of an enormous potential breeding ground.

Switzerland and Germany will take a step to resolve a spat on taxation on Thursday, the Swiss finance ministry said.