VIETNAM TODAY

A string of bombings against Shiite places of worship and a car bomb at a Kurdish political office have killed at least 12 people and wounded at least 75 on Sunday, officials said.

Late writer Vu Trong Phung's works have been made into a television series expected to be aired in Vietnam next year.

Japan goes to the polls on Sunday to vote in a general election that the right-wing Liberal Democratic Party is expected to win following a campaign marked by nationalistic rhetoric.

Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Salvador Lamothe will pay an official visit to Vietnam from December 16-18 at the invitation of Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

Experts have held many meetings to find a solution to rescuing the failing housing market, but no real solutions have been found.

Vietnam Television and Tokyo Broadcasting System have consented to make a collaborative film about the renowned Vietnamese nationalist Phan Boi Chau.

The massacre of 26 children and adults at an US school elicited horror around the world even as it raised questions about why the gunman would have been driven to such a crime.

Eighteen migrants have died and nine are missing after their makeshift boat sank off the coast of Greece in the Aegean Sea, police said.

Vietnam along with other ASEAN member states and India are actively preparing for the 2nd ASEAN-India Business Fair 2012 to herald the 20 th anniversary of ASEAN-India partnership.

Vietnam will host the France Year in 2013 and France will organise the Vietnam Year in 2014 to mark the 40 th anniversary of their diplomatic ties (1973-2013).

The annual conference for the project “Enhance the leadership capacity of women working in the State sector in the context of international integration” has just been held in Hanoi.

By 2015, around 80 percent of Vietnamese consumers will favour Vietnamese goods, and 90 percent of rural and mountainous communes will have access to stores stocking domestic products.

Educators have urged higher-education institutes in Vietnam to use the student assessment from the ASEAN University Network to improve the quality of training.

Twenty-eight vehicles were caught in a pile-up on an east China highway Friday morning amid sleet and fog, leaving nine people dead and about 60 injured, local authorities said.

Reports from the MoIT have shown a gloomy picture and huge inventory of the local automobile companies since 2008.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung, former Party General Secretary Le Kha Phieu and other high-ranking officials cut the ribbon to launch Vietnam Airlines’ Hanoi-Phu Quoc direct route on December 14.

The government has instructed an inspection of the purchase of costly racing motorbikes by Dong Nai’s Department of Transport.

Vietnam is now able to produce 10 out of the 11 vaccines used in the expanded immunisation programme for children, said Health Deputy Minister Nguyen Thanh Long.

An armed gunman opened fire at a school in Connecticut state in the US on Friday, killing at least 27 people, including 20 children.