VIETNAM TODAY

A family in Nam Dinh Province is calling for financial support to treat their little daughter who is suffering from corneal burns after falling into a soup pot.

Hanoi will take the lead in improving the business climate and supporting enterprises since their formation, Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Doan Toan said at a dialogue between the city’s authorities and entrepreneurs on November 28.

Hanoi will spend a total USD2 million for promoting the city’s investment environment and tourism promotion on international news channel CNN during the 2017-2018 period.

Vietnam is going to hold a day of national mourning for Fidel Castro on December 4 to express condolences and gratitude to the revolutionary leader of Cuba, who passed away on November 25.

Up to 10,400 Vietnamese enterprises have gone bankrupt between January and November this year, up 23.3% on-year, according to the General Statistics Office.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has asked all leaders of groups and companies under the ministry to declare their total incomes for 2016.

The Vietnamese student team has won 32 medals - 20 gold medals, 11 silver ones and one bronze - in the seventh World Mathematics Team Championship (WMTC) held in Seoul, South Korea.

Deputy PM, FM Pham Binh Minh will pay official visits to Australia and New Zealand from November 29-December 1 and New Zealand from December 1-4, respectively.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, State President Tran Dai Quang, and Deputy PM, FM Pham Binh Minh visited the Cuban Embassy in Hanoi to pay tribute to former Cuban President Fidel Castro Ruz.

The Vietnam Coffee and Cocoa Association will celebrate the first Vietnam Coffee Day, December 10, at the Youth Cultural House in HCM City.

Hanoi-based Saint Paul General Hospital inaugurated its hi-tech digestive centre on November 27 with the aim of providing specialised endoscopic surgeries and digestive treatment to local patients and those from neighbouring locales.

The consumer price index (CPI) in the past 11 months of 2016 posted a year-on-year increase of 2.47 percent, the General Statistics Office (GSO) announced on November 28.

The Airports Corporation of Vietnam on Monday displayed nine design options for Long Thanh International Airport for public consultation.

The Vietnam Standards and Consumers Association has apologised to consumers, fish sauce producers and management agencies for its false report on Vietnamese fish sauce’s quality.

Dantri's readers have sent over VND96m (USD4,300) to support two brothers whose father had died and mother is dying of cancer.

Philippine police conducted a controlled detonation of a home-made bomb found in a trash bin near the U.S. embassy in Manila on Monday and said militants sympathetic to Islamic State could have been responsible.

The highest administrative fine for individuals caught violating regulations related to environmental protection is VNĐ1 billion (US$44,400), and the highest fine for an organisation is VNĐ2 billion ($88,800).

Total disbursement of foreign direct investment in the first eleven months of this year stood at USD14.3 billion, up 8.3 per cent year-on-year, according to the latest report from the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

Police have found the bodies of four victims who drowned after a boat capsized on Lap River, Binh Phuoc Province on November 27.