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• VND 65 million given to the poor by Toyota

  VND 65 million raised from the Toyota Trans-Vietnam Concert was given to poor families in localities hosting the concerts by ToyotaVietnam. The Ho Chi Minh City Musical Institute saw the last concert of the tour, with a performance by Japanese violist Okumura and the Vietnam Symphony Orchestra, on June 20 under the baton of conductor Tetsuji Honna. Funds collected during the tour will be given to needy people via Thanh Nien Newspaper (Youth Newspaper). Especially, Mr Nguyen Van Thu, a homeless worker of the water supply and drainage branch in Ho Chi Minh City, was given VND 10 million by…... [read more]

• Dai Nam on course for $100 million race track

  Dai Nam Joint Stock Company, the developer of Dai Nam tourism park complex in the southern province of Binh Duong, has officially started construction on its $100 million racing tracks there. According to Huynh Uy Dung, chairman of Dai Nam Joint Stock Company, the complex will be built to accommodate five racing disciplines, including tracks for dog and horse racing, mountain biking, auto racing and motorboat racing, with an international standard platform of 1,500 metres. Located on an area of 60 hectares within Dai Nam tourism park complex, the track will house 60,000 spectators. Dung said that he planned to…... [read more]

• Hundreds of S.Koreans cross border for final set of reunions

  Hundreds of South Koreans crossed the border to North Korea on Saturday for the second and final round of reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War. South Korean elderly people leave for North Korea to take part in family reunions with their North Korean family members at Inter Korean transit office in Goseong, South Korea, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2015. About 250 South Koreans, many of them over 80 and some in wheelchairs, made their way through an immigration office at the world's most heavily fortified border. They will travel by bus to the North's scenic Diamond Mountain resort…... [read more]

• WHO says South Korea's MERS outbreak large and complex

  Tourists wearing masks to prevent contracting Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) rest at Myeongdong shopping district in central Seoul, South Korea, June 12, 2015. The World Health Organization said on Saturday South Korea's outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) was "large and complex" and more cases should be anticipated, but it saw no sign the disease is spreading in the community. There was also no indication that the MERS virus in South Korea had changed to make it more transmissible, the WHO's assistant director general, Keiji Fukuda, told a news conference at the Health Ministry in Sejong, south of…... [read more]

• South Korean Prime Minister resigns over ferry sinking

  (VOVworld)- South Korea's Prime Minister Chung Hong-Won tendered his resignation Sunday over the sinking of a passenger ferry that left more than 300 people dead or missing. Speaking at a press conference on Sunday, 11 days after the accident, Mr. Chung Hong Won said he apologized for having been unable to prevent this accident from happening and unable to properly respond to it afterwards adding that as the prime minister, he certainly had to take responsibility and resign. The Sewol, a large passenger ferry, capsized with 476 people — many of them schoolchildren — on board when it was en…... [read more]

• US aircraft carrier arrives in South Korea for joint naval drills

  The U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz arrived in South Korea Saturday to participate in joint naval drills as part of routine training, the Combined Forces Command (CFC) said. US aircraft carrier USS Nimitz Source: viet.rfi.fr The Nimitz Strike Group includes 64 aircraft as well as cruisers and destroyers, said the group's commander, Rear Admiral Mike S. White, after the aircraft carrier anchored off the southern port of Busan. South Korea's Defence Ministry said the 97,000-ton Nimitz, one of the world's largest warships, will participate in joint search-and-rescue operations as well as "sea manoeuvring" around the Korean Peninsula. The ministry…... [read more]

• Asian markets see muted gains after G20 meeting

  Asian markets were mostly up on Monday as traders gave a tentative welcome to an agreement by the Group of 20 nations to avoid a potential currency war and work to resolve global trade imbalances. Finance ministers and central bankers ended a two-day meeting in South Korea Saturday saying they would not take part in "competitive devaluation" and would move to tackle large current account surpluses, although they shied away from specific targets. Hong Kong rose 0.82 per cent, Shanghai edged up 0.09 per cent and Seoul gained 0.53 per cent. Tokyo edged up 0.08 per cent but gains were…... [read more]

• NorthKorea publishes first photo of heir apparent

  Secretive North Korea on Thursday published a photograph of the youngest son and heir apparent to the communist state's ailing leader Kim Jong-Il, the first official image of him ever released. The photo of Kim Jong-Un was taken after the ruling party's highest-level meeting for 30 years, which bestowed powerful posts on him in a clear sign he is being groomed for the next dynastic succession in the communist state. Official media carried a photo of leading ruling party officials. Party newspaper Rodong Sinmun listed the son Jong-Un as one of those in the group. It did not say where…... [read more]

• Two Koreas hold military talks, Seoul seeks apology

  Seoul insisted Thursday it would demand an apology from Pyongyang for the sinking of one of its warships as North and South Korea began their first military talks for two years. At the talks in the border truce village of Panmunjom, the South's officers will demand that the North "recognise, apologise and punish those behind the attack on the Cheonan warship", Defence Minister Kim Tae-Young said. "We will also emphasise there should be measures to prevent such incidents from taking place in the future," he told a forum. Kim said North Korean troops have boosted operations since South Korea and…... [read more]

• Leaders of SKorea, Japan, China head to summit

  Top military commanders gathered in Seoul on Saturday to discuss how to counter North Korean provocations, as leaders of South Korea, China, and Japan headed to the southern island of Jeju for a summit amid tensions over the sinking of a warship blamed on Pyongyang. International pressure is mounting on North Korea over the sinking of the Cheonan, which killed 46 South Korean sailors in late March in one of the South's worst military disasters since the 1950-53 Korean War. A multinational team of investigators said last week that evidence proved a North Korean torpedo sank the warship. North Korea…... [read more]