VIETNAM TODAY

The publicity-shy heads of South Korea's largest conglomerates faced their worst nightmare on Tuesday, as they were publicly grilled about possible corrupt practices before an audience of millions.

The Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi is scheduled to be reopened to the public on December 6 after three months of maintenance.

The General Department of Customs has decided to stop the customs clearance for BMW auto shipments imported into Vietnam after the Euro Auto Corporation was accused of committing violations.

Ho Chi Minh City is planning to withdraw the land of 880 projects in 2017.

Four Vietnamese swimmers will take part in the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m), which is scheduled to be held from December 6-11 in Ontario, Canada.

The Vietnam Business Forum 2016 opened on December 5 in Hanoi focusing on strengthening the role of the private economic sector through fostering the partnership between domestic and foreign enterprises.

A passenger bus driver in Lam Dong Province has just been sacked after a video of him having breakfast while driving was posted on the internet.

A naval ship of the Philippines, the PF-16 BRP Ramon Alcaraz, docked at Cam Ranh International Port in the central province of Khanh Hoa on December 5 for a four-day cordial visit.

Vietnamese documentary movie Singing from behind the Bars won the Best Asian Project award at Docs Port Incheon 2016, which was held in South Korea from November 4th to 6th.

As millions of people already changed their paper driving licenses into plastic as regulated, the Ministry of Transport has suddenly had a change of heart at the last minute.

There was no immediate reaction Monday from Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to the country's vice president saying she will resign her Cabinet post, citing "major differences in principles and values" with Duterte and an unspecified plot to remove her

National Assembly (NA) Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan will pay an official visit to India from December 8-11 at the invitation of Indian Upper House Speaker Mohamad Hamid Ansarin and Lower House Speaker Sumitra Mahajan.

In the first eleven months of this year Vietnam welcomed over 9 million international tourists, a 25.4 per cent increase year-on-year and exceeding the initial 2016 target of 8.5 million, according to the General Statistics Office.

Flooding due to heavy torrential rainfall has taken the lives of 13 people across the central region over the weekend amid fears of more rain this week.

Vietnam has climbed up 14 ranks to number 73 in the Global Enabling Trade Index according to the latest World Economic Forum report.

Vietnamese Defense Minister Ngo Xuan Lich is paying an official visit to India from December 4-7 just months after the countries lifted up bilateral ties to comprehensive strategic partnership.

Indonesian rescuers on Sunday recovered body parts in the sea where a police plane with 13 people aboard is believed to have crashed the previous day.

Nguyen Van Than, chairman of the Vietnam Association of Small and Medium Enterprises, talks about the difficulties that small firms in Vietnam are facing including a turbulent market and challenging institutions.

The low-cost airline Jetstar Pacific officially inaugurated its direct air route connecting Da Nang city in central Vietnam to Taiwan’s Taipei on December 2.