Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang left for the Philippines on Oct. 26 morning for a three-day state visit at the invitation of President of the Republic of the Philippines Benigno S.Aquino III.

Several travel agencies in HCMC have suspended package tours to Bangkok until the flooding there subsides, even although the Tourism Authority of Thailand insists that the city is still safe for tourists.

A Vietnamese delegation of the Ministry of Information and Communications headed by Deputy Minister Tran Duc Lai is attending a meeting on broadband and an exhibition on world telecom that opened in Geneva, Switzerland, on October 25.

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VietNamNet Bridge – Tran Duy Long was elected as Chairman of HCM City Football Federation today, October 26, after Le Hung Dung unexpectedly announced to resign from his posts ahead of the federation’s regular meeting.

VietNamNet Bridge – The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the International Rhino Foundation (IRF) have announced that one-horn or Java rhino is extinct in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – The operation to cut off the 1m wide tumor for Nguyen Van Hai, 31, from Da Lat city, is scheduled on November 18.

More than 500 athletes have registered for the Bitexco Vertical Run up the Bitexco Financial Tower, the tallest in HCM City, on October 30, announced the Bitexco Group.

Vietnamese grandmaster Le Quang Liem, the world number 25 with an Elo rating of 2717, crowned the championship title at the Spice Cup in the US after he beat Cuban Leinier Dominguez in the decisive game yesterday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Six men and women each will contest the month-long final of HCM City Television's annual Ngoi Sao Tieng Hat Truyen Hinh (Singing Star on TV) singing contest which begins today.

Though subject to a Ministry of Industry and Trade’s restriction on luxury imports aimed at curbing trade deficit, mobile phones, mostly cheap and fake products from China, have made inroads into the local market in different ways.

The low dollar deposit interest rates, the stable dong/dollar exchange rate and the lower demand for dollar loans have all prevented dollars from flowing into banks.

VietNamNet Bridge – Authorities in the Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) and Southeastern regions need to tighten measures to reduce deforestation and strictly punish offenders,

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The European Union (EU) governments should not decide for the European Central Bank (ECB) on its role in tackling eurozone debt crisis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Traffic accidents and drowning are two of the leading causes of accidental deaths in Viet Nam, according to health experts at the second National Scientific Conference on Injury Prevention in Ha Noi yesterday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam supports the will of the State of Palestine and people to acquire full membership of the United Nations, said the Vietnamese representative to the UN.

A lot of existing coffee exporters may not be allowed to export coffee any more, if the proposal by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) on considering coffee export as a conditional business gets approved.

VietNamNet Bridge – There are nameless people who are quietly facing death to bring peace for others.

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VietNamNet Bridge – The People’s Court of Nam Tra My District in the central province of Quang Nam on October 24 received the petition of 18 families in hamlet 6, Tra Don commune against the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) Group.

VietNamNet Bridge – Delegates from the signatory parties of the UN Convention Against Corruption, civil society organisations and representatives of the private sector gathered in Marrakech on Monday for the fourth session

VietNamNet Bridge – Forty-two teams showed off toy vehicles which use solar power at a competition in HCM City on October 24.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam won the bronze medal in the Southeast Asian Football Federation Women's Championship yesterday, Oct 25, in Vientiane, Laos.

Though the government has many times announced that it is following a policy on encouraging local production, Vietnam still runs after profits by increasing imports, thus killing the local production.