VIETNAM TODAY

Many graduates with excellent degrees continue to fail to find jobs due to a lack of vocational skills.

The Duchess of Cambridge is expecting a baby, palace officials announced on Monday. The duchess, who is currently hospitalised with severe morning sickness, married Prince William in April 2011.

The budget carrier VietJetAir has announced it will open its first international route linking HCM City and Thailand’s capital city of Bangkok in the first quarter of 2013.

Dozens of temporary garbage dumps have formed in residential areas of Dong Nai Province due to a shortage of landfill sites, causing serious pollution that affects local people's health.

National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung’s visits to Thailand and Japan aim to strengthen legislative ties between Vietnam and these two countries.

Syrian troops battered rebel positions in and around Damascus in an assault aimed at securing the capital, as Russia and Turkey prepared for talks in Istanbul.

The number of the Republic of Korean tourists to VietnNam in November showed the highest year-on-year increase of 31.5%, one agency said.

Remittances sent to Vietnam this year are expected to substantially exceed last year’s total of USD9 billion.

Vietnamese men are turning to rotten eggs after believing rumours it will improve their sex lives.

The Ministry of Finance has decided to introduce the controversial road-use fees from January 1, 2013.

Many young girls in Nghe An Province are victimised by human traffickers upon leaving hometown to escape poverty.

Vietnam has lost 3 percent of its GDP as the result of the involuntary exclusion of persons with disabilities from the labour market.

The export of salanganes nests in Hoi An Town is facing difficulties in due to bad impacts of the global economic downturn.

Phu Quoc International Airport became operational in Phu Quoc district of the Mekong delta province of Kien Giang on December 2.

Questions mounted about whether decaying ceiling supports caused the collapsed tunnel in Japan as death toll has risen to nine.

Piano prodigy Nguyen Viet Trung will perform with the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra this Thursday and Friday, marking the first concert the young pianist will have played with the orchestra.

Vietnam Airlines’ first flight carrying 143 passengers landed at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta, Indonesia, on December 2.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung on December 2 attended a ceremony to start construction on the Ha Tinh Formosa steel plant in the Vung Ang economic zone in Ky Anh district, Ha Tinh.

Taliban suicide bombers attacked a joint U.S.-Afghan air base in Afghanistan, detonating explosives that lasted at least two hours.