VN, Japan agree to boost logistics co-operation; Mexico wants to enhance ties with Vietnam; Condolences to Thailand over flood damage; President Sang’s visit makes the headlines in India

VietNamNet Bridge – The Communist Party of Viet Nam always attached great importance to developing its traditional friendship with the Communist Party of Ukraine, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong said yesterday, Oct 10.

VietNamNet Bridge – The legislative bodies of Viet Nam and Thailand had reached a high degree of consensus on how to develop their co-operation through specific activities, including the exchange of delegations and experience

VietNamNet Bridge – While Viet Nam Social Insurance has been piloting health insurance cards with photos, work has met with some difficulties, according to Nguyen Huy Nghi, deputy head of the agency's Registry and Card division.

An exhibition featuring 40 black-and-white images by photographer Sean Sutton documents the work of the Mines Advisory Group, a humanitarian organisation dedicated to clearing away the remnants of conflict in communities

Two American economic professors shared 2011 Nobel Prize for Economics, announced Staffan Normark, Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Monday.

Many European and US importers looking to buy Vietnamese tra fish products at the Food and Hotel Exhibition in HCM City last month were unhappy because local exporters could not meet their increasing demand.

Though the real estate market remains gloomy with very few successful transactions reported, high grade apartments worth multi-million dollars still have been selling well in HCM City.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam has more than 12 million people with mental disorders but only about 20 per cent of them get treatment because there are not enough psychiatrists and not enough funds.

VietNamNet Bridge – Members of the Party Central Committee defined keys tasks to promote socio-economic development and build the Party at their third plenum which wrapped up yesterday, Oct 10.

Two successive roadside bombs rattled western Baghdad late on Monday, killing 13 people and wounding 22 others, an Interior Ministry source said.

Agnieszka Radwanska from Poland experienced a 154-minute battle to disarm German world No. 11 Andrea Petkovic 7-5, 0-6, 6-4 to seal the title of China Open here on Sunday.

The U.S. dollar slumped in late New York trading on Monday against major counterparts after Germany and France said they were close to a final deal to shore up European banks.

The funeral for Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died Wednesday at the age of 56, is taking place on Friday, U.S. media reported.

Vietnam is fully committed to deepening Asia-Europe Meeting cooperation for a greener future.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Hoan Kiem Lake is blue, the Red River is long, new residential areas with high-rise buildings are the image of Hanoi, a developing city.

Too many difficulties have made fish sauce production workshops in Nha Trang City, the owners of Nha Trang fish sauce brand, exhausted.

A robot boxer landed a decisive blow to its human opponent in the box office duel, as "Real Steel" beats out George Clooney starrer "Ides of March" as top earner at the North America box office,

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and European Council President Herman van Rompuy on Monday said implementing financial market reform and restoring growth would top the European Union (EU)'s agenda in G20 summit

Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney married for the third time on Sunday, exchanging vows with American heiress Nancy Shevell at the same London register office where the former Beatle wed his first wife Linda in 1969.

Except for the runaway passion behind the "Occupy Wall Street" movement which has been rambling on into its fourth week, the world has been bathed all these days in an utterly voluntary "iSad" mood with the death of Steve Jobs

Official predicts rally in Q4; Brokerages chomp at the bit to begin margin trading; Coffee dips on crisis, oversupply; Steelmakers face bankruptcy; Tariff cut considered for automobile imports from ASEAN

Banks and other credit institutions have been banned from making loans for the purposes of financing gold purchases, except in cases authorised by the State Bank of Viet Nam, under a new circular issued by the central bank on Saturday.

The Polish parliamentary elections kicked off Sunday morning as voters began to cast their ballots at 7:00 a.m.(0500 GMT), the State Electoral Commission (PKW) said.

A total of 13 Chinese sailors, who were on two ships hijacked by drug traffickers last week, were confirmed dead after investigators found another body on Mekong River in north Thailand's Chiang Rai Province,