VIETNAM TODAY

A large number of high school students are getting in debt from borrowing money to buy consumer goods or through gambling.

At least 115 people have been killed in a series of bombing across Pakistan late Thursday, police sources said.

Exports to key Middle East markets, including the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Israel and Iraq, brought in US$4.2 billion to Vietnam last year.

Vietnam’s recent approval of the Sea Law is a normal and necessary act of a sovereign coastal nation, and as a signatory to the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea

Three Kurdish women were found dead with gunshot wounds inside the Kurdish Institute of Paris, early Thursday.

The Hanoi Chairman requested staff members of municipal agencies and departments not to present gifts for their officials on Tet.

The State Bank’s governor must be held accountable if high inflation returns this year, according to the PM.

Many people have opted to use apartments, shares and even women as special gifts for their bosses on the occasion of Tet holiday.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia during his Southeast Asian tour from January 16-19, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga confirmed on January 10.

Indonesia has issued regulations that will require cigarette packets to bear graphic photographic warnings, a long-delayed measure in a country with one of the highest rates of smoking in the world.

Thanh Hoa traffic police considers using a new kind of fishing nets for seizing racers amid mixing feedback from the public.

Top Vietnamese badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh was beaten 1-2 by China’s Wong Wing Ki in the first round of the 2012 Korean Open on December 10.

Archaeologists have found a tomb containing the remains of a man who was believed to live in the period of Phung Nguyen culture about 3,500 years ago, at the Dong Dau relic site in the northern province of Vinh Phuc.

At least 57 people were injured in the US on Wednesday morning when a commuter ferry from New Jersey hit a dock in New York City’s financial district.

The People’s Court of Nghe An province has handed down sentences ranging from three years probation to 13 years in prison to 14 people for “carrying out activities aimed at overthrowing the people’s government.

Public concern has been raised over overly luxurious funerals in Haiphong City.

As many as 3,800 woollen blankets will soon be handed over to poor residents in 17 northern provinces which are being hit by the first strong cold spell in 2013, according to the Vietnam Red Cross.

The UN World Food Programme warned it was unable to reach one million desperate and hungry Syrians because of the perilous security situation across the country after nearly two years of deadly conflict.

The majority of 24 projects valued in billions of dollars licensed in Vietnam since 2007 have not yet been implemented.