VIETNAM TODAY

Ten low income couples celebrated a joint wedding ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City on Oct. 10.

Vietnam wants to further its cooperation with France not only in trade and investment but also in culture, education, energy, aviation, water treatment and agriculture.

3 economists won the 2010 Nobel Economics Prize for work on why supply and demand do not always meet in the labour market and elsewhere.

The 9th Dep Fashion Show featuring a collection of dream designs will be held October 31st at The Garden Trade Centre in Hanoi.

Environmental campaigners planted trees, collected rubbish and rallied against pollution for what organisers aimed to make the world's biggest day of climate-change activism.

British experts shared their views on PPP opportunities for Vietnam, including an explanation of the legal framework of a PPP model.

Nearly one year after leaving Vietnam’s national female football team, coach Chen Yun Fat has returned to Vietnam to help the team prepare for the 16th Asian Games.

Sex work in Da Nang has facilitated the trade of unwanted infants, usually under the guise of social welfare.

100 outstanding Vietnamese entrepreneurs in 2010 were awarded the Thanh Giong Cup by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Floods have taken the lives of 64, left 22 missing and caused 75 injuries in central Vietnam.

Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh welcomed the high-level delegations from the three countries China, Laos and Cambodia.

Greater investment opportunities for Vietnamese and French enterprises will appear at a big business-oriented French event in Hanoi next month.

Vietnam hopes to increase the average height of men to 167cm and women to 157cm by 2020.

Governments and campaigners urged a worldwide end to the death penalty.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung together with a government task force visited Quang Binh, the worst-hit central province in the pounding flood beginning early October.

Japan’s Ueno Zoo has decided to present Hanoi with a pair of rare red-crowned cranes on the occasion of the city’s millennial anniversary.

Thang Long-Hanoi City of the Soaring Dragon by director Trong Dai and script writer Nguyen Khac Phuc will be performed in Hanoi at 8pm on October 10.

Tens of thousands of people in the Asia-Pacific region Sunday planted trees, collected trash and campaigned against pollution

The 1000 year anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi has attracted great attention from many international newspapers and news agencies.