VIETNAM TODAY

Students with banking and finance degrees are worried about their job prospects as banks have tended to cut their workforces.

Mick Moloney, one of Ireland's most renowned traditional musicians and musicologists, will return to Vietnam for an evening of Irish music and song at the Youth Theatre in Hanoi next Monday.

Reports echoing online Tuesday fueled speculation that Apple is tailoring a low-price version of the iPhone for China and other emerging markets.

Hanoi authorities have announced that they will build more overpasses at key junctions in order to deal with traffic congestion.

Dragonair announced that it will officially launch a direct air route from Hong Kong to Da Nang City on March 28, with three flights a week on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

Hugo Chavez is so sick with cancer that he won't show up for his own inauguration for a new term this week. But the cottage industry that lives off Chavez merchandising is quite healthy.

FDI enterprises are still the most profitable, according to Vietnam Report's Top 500 Largest Enterprises in 2012.

The HCM City People's Court today sentenced a woman to 42 months in jail for carrying out anti-national propaganda.

Extreme heat in Australia forced the government's weather bureau to upgrade its temperature scale, with new colours on the climate map to reflect new highs forecast next week.

The Vietnam Football Federation announced a draft list of 50 players who will prepare for the qualifier of the 2015 Asian Cup.

The Electricity of Vietnam on January 7 signed a credit contract worth 2.5 trillion VND with the Vietnam Development Bank to develop the Vinh Tan 2 and Duyen Hai 1 thermo-electric plants.

The Vietnam Environment Administration announced the country's biggest polluters, after inspections last year revealed over 100 companies breaking environmental laws.

Vietnam failed to meet the target of sending 90,000 labourers to foreign countries for work in 2012, said a recent report.

While hundreds of teachers continue to wait for a job, several areas in Thanh Hoa Province have a serious lack of teachers.

The inexorable push for mobility in gadgets has reshaped the electronics industry, a shift that reflects a changing of the guard at the world's biggest consumer technology show.

Four young women were found shot to death in the same apartment in a rugged part of south Tulsa in the US on Monday.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade held a ceremony in Hanoi on January 7 to grant the National Trademark award 2012 to 54 outstanding businesses.

The NA attaches importance to strengthening cooperation in energy between Vietnam and Russia and creates favourable conditions for Russian enterprises to expand their activities in Vietnam.

A grand meeting took place in Phnom Penh on January 7 to celebrate the 34 th anniversary of the overthrow of the Pol Pot genocidal regime (January 7, 1979-2013).