VIETNAM TODAY

Regulations on Vietnamese nationality retention, administrative violation sanctions in monetary and banking area, land price framework are among the fresh policies that take effect in December.

Vietnam has the fifth-highest number of people living with HIV in Asia-Pacific.

Vietnam Air Traffic Management Corporation (VATM) has temporarily suspended 10 air traffic controllers for their weak English skills.

In Peru, where two weeks of U.N. climate talks begin Monday, melting glaciers and more extreme weather such as hot spells and flash frosts are already harming crops and incomes, and keeping people in poverty, aid workers say.

Banks predict that remittances from overseas Vietnamese will reach US$12 - 13 billion this year.

The value of agricultural and seafood product exports rose by 12.1 per cent year-on-year in the first 11 months of this year to reach US$28.2 billion.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) has proposed exempting visa for Indian tourists, said MCST Deputy Minister Ho Anh Tuan at a Vietnam-India tourism and aviation cooperation conference in Hanoi on November 29.

Tropical storm No4 Sinlaku made landfall in Tuy Hoa city in the central coastal province of Phu Yen on November 29 evening, and then weakened into a tropical low-pressure system.

The Secretariat of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has announced it will hold an ASEAN consumer protection conference on December 8-9 in Hanoi to address issues sparked by the escalating number of e-commerce transactions.

Energized by new targets set by China and the United States, the world's top climate polluters, U.N. global warming talks resume Monday with unusual optimism despite evidence that human-generated climate change is already happening and bound to get worse.

Renowned cai luong (reformed opera) artist Hong Nga plans to organise a live show to mark her 70th birthday on January 17 in HCM City.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat has requested authorities of Binh Dinh province to keep close watch on the movement of tropical storm Sinlaku, which is forecast to hit southern central and Central Highlands provinces.

More than 1,500 hundred turned out for a walk-a-thon around Hoan Kiem Lake and Ly Thai To flower garden in the capital city on the morning of November 29 to raise public awareness of the plight of people with disabilities.

The Hanoi-based Australia Embassy on November 28 hosted a ceremony awarding scholarship certificates to 161 outstanding Vietnamese researchers and managers.

Thousands of pro-democracy activists clashed with police in running scuffles in Hong Kong's gritty Mong Kok district early on Saturday in a bid to reclaim part of one of the city's largest and most volatile protest sites.

Vietnam produced their best performance so far at the ongoing Southeast Asian Football Championship to beat the Philippines 3-1 in the last group game, marching into the semi-finals as Group A winners.

The Central Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Prevention and Control convened a meeting in Hanoi on November 28 to discuss urgent measures to cope with storm Sinlaku, the fourth to hit the East Sea this year, as it

Denmark’s Global Competitive Facility (GCF) programme has funded more than 40 projects in Vietnam, creating nearly 30,000 new jobs for local people, told by a seminar held by the Danish Embassy and the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM)

HCM City will set up a hotline for business sectors to create more favourable and convenient conditions for foreign investors, Le Manh Ha, the deputy chairman of the city's People's Committee, has announced.