VIETNAM TODAY

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.

Vietnam’s national football team lost 1-2 to hosts Indonesia in the first leg of the first semi-finals at the ASEAN Football Federation’s 2016 Suzuki Cup in Bogor, Indonesia.

Vietnam and New Zealand vowed to increase their two-way trade volume to $1.7 billion by 2020 as well as deepen their bilateral relations.

Over 1 million working-aged people were unemployed in the third quarter of 2016.

Politburo member and Vice Chairwoman of National Assembly Tong Thi Phong hosted a reception with students who won prizes at International Olympiads and had the most outstanding performance on the 2016 national high school exam in Hanoi.

The Hanoi People’s Court on December 2 gave prison sentences to two Chinese nationals on the charge of “using computer, telecommunication and internet networks to appropriate property” pursuant to Article 226b, Clause 2, Point d of the Penal Code.

Up to 65 people lost their lives or are still missing after the two recent spells of flooding in the central and Central Highlands region of Vietnam.

Authorities from HCM City and Gyoengsangbuk province of the Republic of Korea met on December 2 to discuss preparations for the World Culture Festival, which will be organised by Gyoengsangbuk in the Vietnamese city.

The outlook for the Asian steel industry for 2017 has been lowered to negative says US Moody’s Investors Service in a new report, as global prices of steel collapse across all grades and utilization weakens.

The private sector is crucial to building a standardised vocational training system by 2020, thus improving the quality of human resources to regional and world standards, heard a conference in Hà Nội on December 2.

As many as 58% of private enterprises in Vietnam are not earning enough to pay taxes, which means the need for a stronger focus on making the private sector a driving force for the economy, an official said.

A ceremony was held to mark the 50th anniversary of a massacre committed by South Korean soldiers in the central province of Quảng Ngãi’s Bình Sơn district yesterday.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to finance gender equality projects aside from infrastructure construction in Vietnam.

A Cambodian official has affirmed that the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and Cambodian people will do their best to foster the traditional friendship between the two Parties and countries.

Moody’s has indicated that the outlook for the banking system in Vietnam is stable over the next 12-18 months, reflecting Moody's expectation that the country's macroeconomic stability.

A mother in Lam Dong Province, who already lost her husband and a son, is calling for help to treat her son after a severe accident.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump invited Philippines leader Rodrigo Duterte to the White House next year during a "very engaging, animated" phone conversation, a Duterte aide said on Friday, amid rocky relations between their two countries.

Vietnam currently has about 1.75 million labourers who are children or adolescents, mostly in big cities, including Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, according to a Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) official.