VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnam Air Petrol Company has been prosecuted for smuggling and tax evasion worth billions of dong.

Protesters demonstrating against Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi clashed with riot police as they surrounded Cairo's presidential palace.

EU finance ministers engaged in arduous talks aimed at setting up a new system for cross-border supervision of thousands of banks.

Nguyen Ngoc Truc, a student at the TAFE MSW Sydney Institute, has won third prize in a Flower Arrangement Competition in Australia.

The Korean Film Festival 2012 will take place in Da Nang and Hanoi to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the establishment of Vietnam-the Republic of Korea diplomatic relations.

Thirty six hotels in Vietnam are among 494 outstanding hotels worldwide selected to win the Gold Circle Award 2012 presented by leading Asian hotel booking site, Agoda.com.

Young people in HCM City have made three Christmas trees from 9,000 condoms to call on people to fight against HIV/AIDS.

Hanoi will present social policy beneficiaries with nearly VND230 billion ($11,500 million) in the upcoming lunar New Year, the year of the Snake.

Typhoon Bopha, the strongest storm hitting the Philippines this year, has killed at least six people in the country, officials said.

Vietnam now has joined other countries with aging populations, with the sharp rise in the rate of elderly people.

National athletes will compete at the 7th World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships, in Tujia, Colombia, from December 6–9.

Nearly 3,000 handicraft villages are facing difficulties in finding markets for their products.

The Electricity of Vietnam Group is estimated to make a profit of VND3.5-4 trillion this year, one official has said.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has asked foreign exporters to strictly adhere to its Circular 13, ensuring food hygiene and safety for local consumers.

The disparity in Vietnam’s gender ratio at birth has not narrowed since 2009 and officially reached 112 boys to every 100 girls in 2012.

The slow pace of construction of several projects in HCM City has seen land go to waste and triggered public concern.

Typhoon Bopha has smashed into the Philippines and more than 40,000 people crammed into shelters to escape the storm.

PetroVietnam has raised its objection over an incident when Chinese fishing vessels broke off the cable of the group’s seismic survey ship.

Up to 23 multi-level or pyramid scheme marketing companies in Vietnam halted operations by the end of September.