A British court ruled on Thursday that the government needs parliamentary approval to start the process of leaving the European Union, potentially delaying Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit plans.

Nguyen Cong Tri, one of Vietnam’s top designers, opened the Fall Winter Vietnam International Fashion Week 2016 with his impressive collection "The girl of a stranger, and me!"

The FBI and U.S. intelligence agencies are examining faked documents aimed at discrediting the Hillary Clinton campaign as part of a broader investigation into what U.S. officials believe has been an attempt by Russia to disrupt

The fleet of State-owned cars serving officials will be cut by 30 to 50 per cent, or about 12,000 to 20,000 cars, by the year 2020. The cut will not be applied to mountainous, remote areas and the islands.

 Two or three storms and tropical depressions may appear in the East Sea this November with one or two likely to hit the central and southern regions of Vietnam. 

 Vietnam’s tra fish exports to mainland China and Hong Kong in the first nine months of this year were 201.9 million USD, up 75.6 percent against the same period last year.

 Economic restructuring plan for 2016-2020

 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) plans to provide another loan worth 500 million USD for Metro 2 project in Ho Chi Minh City, said ADB Vice President Stephen Groff. 

 Vietnamese music researchers have reacted heatedly to recent Chinese claim that Dan bau (monochord zither) is a traditional Chinese instrument and not Vietnamese. 

 The third Vietnam-China Youth Festival will take place in Vietnam from November 7-10 to cement friendship, mutual understanding and trust between the two countries’young people. 

 Floods triggered by torrential rains have killed four people, injured 12 and left one missing in the central provinces of Ha Tinh, Quang Binh and Quang Tri as of November 3 morning.

 Vietnam ranked second in the number of trainees fleeing from their workplaces in Japan in 2015, according to a report from the Japanese Ministry of Justice’s Immigration Bureau.

 Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has confirmed Australia is considering joint patrols with Indonesia in the East Sea. 

 Resources should be invested in strategic targets to meet requirements of economic restructuring and maintain a suitable growth in the future, a NA deputy has said.

 Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong pointed to a range of bottlenecks hindering agricultural restructuring at a debate of the 14th National Assembly’s second meeting in Hanoi on November 2.

 Director of the US Peace Corps Carrie Hessler-Radelet is paying a working visit to Vietnam from October 31 to November 4, seeking to discuss when and how to implement the programme.

 Vietnam welcomes the Philippine President’s settlement of fishermen issue in humanitarian spirit in line with the bilateral strategic partnership, Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Le Hai Binh said at a regular press conference in Hanoi on November 3. 

 The Party Central Committee’s Secretariat held a meeting in Hanoi on November 2 to discuss disciplinary measures for the Party Delegation to the Ministry of Industry and Trade in the 2011-2016 tenure and its former Secretary Vu Huy Hoang.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc wanted the new Ambassador of Sweden to help boost the two countries’ trade and investment to exceed the current figure of 1.2 billion USD.

 Zhang Dejiang, a standing Politburo member and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China, will pay an official friendly visit to Vietnam from November 8-11.

Irish President Michael D. Higgins tells VNA that Ireland and Vietnam have in common their past independence struggles as well as the current challenge of forging an equitable growth model.

 Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Ha Kim Ngoc held a reception in Hanoi on November 3 for the newly-accredited Chargé d’affaires of Colombia to Vietnam, Claudia Liliana Zambrano Naranjo. 

 Zambia wishes to expand the friendship and cooperation with Vietnam, said President Edgar Lungu at a reception for newly accredited Vietnamese Ambassador to the country Nguyen Manh Cuong in Lusaka on November 2.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc told European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Phil Hogan that Vietnam wants to sign a free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU) soon. 

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