VIETNAM TODAY

Sea levels are rising 60-percent faster than the UN's climate panel forecast in its most recent assessment, scientists reported.

Vietnam and Brunei have agreed to further broaden and intensify their relations in the future to benefit the two peoples.

Vietnamese enterprises tend to pay too much attention to developing personal relations instead of their technology, experts said.

The MARD has issued a regulation requiring people to register their dogs as part of the effort to fight rabies.

The famous German pop-rock band FOTOS, natives of the city of Hamburg, will hold three concerts in Hanoi and Haiphong next month.

The aquaculture has been threatened by the uncontrollable industrial production development which has caused serious pollution everywhere.

Vietnam has so far attracted USD12.181 billion in foreign direct investment, with USD7.256 billion to 980 newly-licensed projects.

One-third of Vietnamese children under the age of five were malnourished and one-third of women and children suffered from anaemia. Most of them lived in rural areas.

Energy usage contributes up to 35% of Vietnam's total greenhouse gas emissions, Dr Nguyen Thi Hien Thuan from the Vietnam Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Environment said.

The increasingly high demand for foreign English teachers has turned Vietnam into a promising land for many English native speakers.

The PM requested that the EVN complete its plans to withdraw capital from several non-core businesses by 2015.

A large company in Hai Phong City was sold at a symbolic price of USD1, leaving businessmen arrested and the company unable to pay their debt of VND1.3 trillion.

Ailing and merged banks are looking for strategic shareholders to help them restructure and deal with bad debts.

Vietnamese gymnasts won two golds and one silver at the 2012 Ostrava World Cup, which wrapped up in the Czech Republic.

Greece won big breathing space with long-frozen eurozone loans to restart from December.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung received the Chief of General Staff of Bulgarian Armed Forces, Simeon Hristov Simeonov, in Hanoi on November 26.

Millions of sex-related messages are sent to mobile users per day, raising public worry about their bad impacts on the youth.

Teams of experts from France, Switzerland and Russia are set to extract samples from the exhumed remains of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Tuesday.

Several foreign investors remain keen on investing billions of USD in Vietnamese casino projects, even amid economic difficulties.