VIETNAM TODAY

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.

Many people are unaware of tax duties and are often tricked into buying smuggled or fake luxury items.

Some small telecom companies have been driven into lamentable positions, said the Ministry of Information and Communication, however, it has affirmed that it would not rescue the companies.

Police in Hanoi has detained a driver for illegal transporting 436 kilos of firecrackers for use to celebrate the Tet holiday.

Vietnamese swimmers have failed to make the finals of their events so far at the ongoing World Championships in Turkey.

The Hanoi-based National University of Economics has been found to have illegally collected fees worth more than VND51 billion ($2.4 million) from its students.

The Yok Don National Park in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak is under threat from the Drang Phok hydro-electric power plant to be built on the Serepok River.

Vietnam lacks both highly qualified professionals and skilled workers, which pose difficulties for the country’s development, said the PM.

Two people died and 22 were injured in a bus accident in southern Binh Duong Province's Thu Dau Mot City this morning.

Businesses and the lives of local people in Ho Chi Minh City were affected by severe flood tides on the evening of December 13.

More domestic publishing houses are replacing printed works with e-books.