Vietnam yesterday protested against a Chinese agency which publishes an online world map that illustrates Vietnamese territorial waters in the East Sea as part of China.

The death toll from heavy flooding nationwide since last week rose to 140, government report said on Friday.

VietNamNet Bridge – The first sub-competition of the Miss Earth 2010 pageant will take place at HCM City’s Diamond Palace on November 9, hosted by Miss Asia American Jennifer Pham and supermodel-actor Binh Minh.

Patient saved after being stabbed by fighting cock; Harvard professor to chair workshop in Ha Noi; Workshop focuses on gender imbalance at birth; NGOs give recommendations on child issues

PM welcomes new Iraqi and Ukrainian ambassadors; Party officials sign research deal during visit to Singapore; State Vice President receives delegation from the Committee for Solidarity of Vietnamese Catholics

A passenger plane crashed in central Cuba on Thursday night, killing all 68 people onboard, the Cuban civil aviation authorities said.

Central bank raises benchmark rates; Stocks rally after State sells off dollars; Transport Ministry allows My Thuan-Can Tho project

The biggest problems of policy makers are that they cannot explain their decisions and they dare not take responsibility for their policies”, said Vo Tri Thanh, Deputy Head of CIEM.

The fact that FPT (the Corporation for Financing Technologies) and FPT Telecom will buy more than 50 percent of stakes of EVN Telecom is understood as the start of the new wave of merging mobile phone networks in Vietnam.

While the majority of parents have become indignant at the behaviour of Tran Thi Xuan Nu, others have called on the family of the victim to forgive, so that the teacher can continue her work.

The Tiger Translate Metropolis rock show will take place on November 12 at Hanoi’s Thong Nhat Park, with the participation of Canada’s Hail the Villain band and two leading bands in Vietnam – Ngu Cung and RoseWood.

The greenback is losing its value against most other currencies in the world, but it is appreciating against the Vietnam dong.

The Circular No 148 stipulating the measures to prevent and fight against money laundering has raised the opposition from securities investors, who believe that the legal document would badly affect the securities market

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Finance has decided to legalise football betting for two reasons.

VAFI has proposed to impose a cap on the dollar deposit interest rates in order to stop the dollar speculation.

VietNamNet Bridge – Not following normal conventions for fashion shows, the Paris-Hanoi show on November 3 took the audience from surprise to surprise.

VietNamNet Bridge – Border guards of the central coastal city of Nha Trang on October 30 saved a Hong Kong yacht, which was on the way to Malaysia to participate in a yacht race.

A 37-year-old man in Thanh Hoa attempted to commit suicide by swallowing a 15cm knife. The knife made a hole in the man’s oesophagus but it luckily didn’t thrust down the heart and major blood vessels so he was saved.

Six years after the Politburo’s Decree 36 on overseas Vietnamese affairs was implemented, Deputy PM Pham Gia Khiem and representatives of 63 provinces and relevant agencies met on November 4 to review theimplementation of the decree.

A volcano in Central Java of Indonesia re-erupted earlier Friday, the biggest since Oct. 26, killing at least 54 people and injuring seriously 66 others, bringing the total fatality to 91, over 1.3 million people to seek shelters, officials said.