Nguyen Tan Dung News

Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh urged the coastal central province of Binh Dinh to ensure plenty of medicine and supplies for people still cut off by storm caused floodwaters when he toured the locality yesterday.

Vietnam attaches great importance to cooperation in the Mekong sub-region and is ready to actively take part in regional cooperation with Japan, says Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

About 200 Burmese dissidents demonstrated outside Japan's Parliament House in Tokyo on Friday, the second of three planned protests against Burma's military government during a visit by Prime Minster Gen Thein Sein who arrived in the Japanese capital on Thursday to attend the first Mekong-Japan Summit.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau to be well prepared for the resettlement of local people who have given their land for the Lai Chau hydropower plant, a key national project.

The death toll from Tropical Storm Mirinae rose to 99 in central Vietnam on Thursday and authorities estimated damage from the storm at $55 million.

Typhoon Mirinae, later downgraded into a low pressure, has killed at least 90 people in the central region and Central Highlands.

The death toll from Tropical Storm Mirinae rose to 91 in Vietnam on Wednesday as authorities stepped up rescue and relief operations in the country's central region.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung yesterday said Viet Nam appreciated the traditional friendship and co-operation with Cambodia and would make every effort to enhance this relationship.

Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh receives the Queen of Denmark yesterday on her official visit to Viet Nam.

MANILA a ' A tropical storm roared toward Vietnam on Sunday after battering this capital and surrounding provinces, leaving 20 people dead in a region still soggy from three recent storms.

HANOI: Vietnam has started building a major US$ 3.6-billion international container port in central Khanh Hoa province to boost regional economic development, state media said yesterday.

A tropical storm roared toward Vietnam on Sunday after battering the Philippine capital and surrounding provinces, leaving 14 people dead in a region still waterlogged from three previous, back-to-back storms.

The Government has decided to overhaul state enterprises and their ownership and to improve efficiencies as part of the commitment it made to join the World Trade Organisation.

Viet Nam will chair the Association of Southeast Asian Nations as of January 1, 2010.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung pressed the button to post a national database of administrative procedures online for public access yesterday.

Poor people in Ha Dong District of Ha Noi complete procedures for interest subsidised loan.

Leaders from ASEAN countries yesterday officially established the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights at the opening of the 15th ASEAN Summit in Thailand.

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, fifth from left, link hands with ASEAN leaders during group shot before the ASEAN-Japan meeting at the 15th Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit, in Cha-am of Hua Hin district, south of Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, Oct.

For his part, Rajapakse affirmed Sri Lanka's desire to foster co-operative ties with Vietnam.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and his Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong agreed that the two countries need to work out specific measures to develop bilateral ties in a more stable and sustainable manner in future.