Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay a State visit to Viet Nam from November 5-6 at the invitation of Viet Nam's General Secretary Nguyen PhuTrong and President Truong Tan Sang, the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced.

Viet Nam has continuously respected the freedom of navigation and aviation in the East Sea, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Hai Binh said.

Many National Assembly deputies yesterday suggested removing the death penalty for certain crimes, including robbery, illegal drugs stocking, causing war and crimes against humanity.The matter was discussed at a session of the NA in Ha Noi.

The nationwide Viet Nam Energy Efficiency Programme has achieved satisfactory results in the last five years, according to officials attending a seminar organisedOctober 30 in HCM City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Food wastage is an epidemic that concerns the world not just because it contributes to greenhouse gases, but because it affects the natural resources and bio-diversity of a country.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Services of more than 200 teachers in primary and secondary schools in Ky Anh district, central Ha Tinh Province were terminated partly due to recruitment violations.

 The construction of hydropower dams on the mainstream Mekong River has had the largest impact on fishing and local livelihoods in the lower basin, as heard at a recent consultative seminar in Hanoi.

Mobilising all resources and pushing forward with comprehensive reform, industrialisation and modernisation will be the guiding principles for the next term from 2015 to 2020.

The Ministry of Finance (MOF) last week submitted to the National Assembly’s Standing Committee a plan to issue government bonds to call for capital in the international market for domestic debt swap, though current laws do not allow this.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Volcanic eruptions that occurred millions of years ago created cliffs stretching for kilometers on the island of Ly Son in Quang Ngai province, central Vietnam. This area deserves to become a global geological park. 

 Tariffs on pharmaceuticals imported into Vietnam will be cutfrom 2.5 per cent to 0 per cent when the TPP comes into effect, puttingdomestic enterprises under intense competitive pressure.

An international workshop on a peaceful solution to East Sea dispute was held on October 30 in Busan, the Republic of Korea.

 Bui Thuong village in Le Loi commune, Gia Loc district, the northern province of Hai Duong is famous for water puppetry, a unique cultural characteristic of the Red River Delta region.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Playing the electric keyboard, swimming, playing football and understanding basic English, besides graduating from university and earning a brown belt in aikido are skills normal people can master.

Mr. Thieu Phuong Nam, General Director of Qualcomm Indochina, tells VN Economic Times that the time is right for Vietnam to deploy 4G LTE.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many Vietnamese 9X, born in the 1990s, can spend tens or hundreds of billions of dong to buy shares. But the origin of their assets is unclear. 

According to e-Government Development Index - EGDI of the United Nations in 2014, Viet Nam was ranked 99th in the world and stood at the 5th position in ASEAN bloc behind Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines.

VietNamNet Bridge – Quat Dong Village in Quat Dong Commune, Thuong Tin District, Hanoi is well known throughout the northern region as a traditional hand embroidery village,

 Tourists prefer to visit the northwestern region in the autumn to watch ripen terraced rice fields, indulge in the aroma, and participate in the glutinous young rice festival of the local ethnic groups - Tay, Thai, Nung, Giay, and Mong.

 VietNamNet Bridge – As the least developed of the Trans-Pacific Partnership member nations, Viet Nam is most likely to become the biggest beneficiary of the agreement with an increase in GDP, FDI and exports of manufactured goods,