Politics

-- Leaders from Vietnam and Laos gathered Monday to outline future development plans and make arrangements for the two countries' 2012 Friendship Year celebrations.

-- The sixth plenum of the Party Central Committee wrapped up in Hanoi on October 15.

-- Vietnam’s top leaders on October 15 sent condolences to Cambodian leaders over the death of Cambodian King Father Norodom Sihanouk.

Society

-- Three secondary students were electrocuted on Monday when they were washing their hands in a lake behind a power station in Yen Tho Commune of the northern province of Quang Ninh.

-- After five days constantly hunting for the crocodiles that have escaped from Quoc Viet Co in the southernmost province of Ca Mau, local authorities have yet to know exactly how many they are, and thus have failed to take all back to the company.

-- Locals in the central city of Da Nang have been concerned over a strange type of mosquitoes that are rumored to spread deadly diseases, but authorities said they are only a kind of Asian mosquitoes and thus will cause nothing but viral hemorrhagic fever

-- The fishing boat of captain Le Do with 13 fishermen on Monday sunk deep into the bottom of the Truong Sa waters after it was attacked by a swordfish.

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