VIETNAM TODAY

Despite being highly appreciated, HCM City is facing many difficulties in realising its plan to hire Filipino teachers of English.

The prevention of dollarisation and goldenisation has yielded initial outcomes in the Vietnamese market.

Farmers in several districts in HCM City complain that they have to leave land uncultivated because the water sources have become seriously polluted.

The Ministry of Health compiled to a draft plan on mitigating overcrowding of hospitals during the 2012-2020 period.

The Ministry of Education and Training is planning to change the content of history textbooks and teaching methods.

Tourism contributes around 5% to the country’s GDP, but the industry is lagging far behind in this field and has hardly invested soundly in it.

Nguyen Thi Lan, a worker in Ha Noi's Bac Thang Long Industrial Zone, has had three abortions. The only birth-control measure that she uses is the rhythm method.

US President Barack Obama swept to re-election, creating history again.

The municipal administration of HCM City has requested the Ministry of Transport to make several modifications to its proposal to limit the use of personal vehicles in the nation’s bigger cities.

President Barack Obama captured hard-fought New Hampshire in a tense duel for the White House with Mitt Romney.

Hoang Thanh Trang, formerly of Vietnam, will compete in the Women's World Chess Championships 2012 in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, from November 9 to December 3.

The summit adopted two important documents, the “Vientiane Declaration on Strengthening Partnership for Peace and Development” and the “Chair’s Statement”.

International experts have made proposals to revise Vietnam’s Land Law.

Hanoi’s Gia Lam District police yesterday seized tens of thousands of bras without origin.

Under national program on teaching foreign languages, students would be encouraged to begin learning foreign languages soon, while under-standard teachers would be dismissed.

After declining during the first five months of the year, lending by the nation's commercial banks began to expand in June and has now risen 3.3% over the same period last year.

To reduce environmental pollution, HCMC has closed down several polluting factories, invested heavily in a canal clean-up operation and reduced flooding caused by heavy rains and high tide.

Vietnam will host its first ever international anthropological film festival, organisers have announced.

Russian President Putin fired defence minister Anatoly Serdyukov over a corruption scandal, the most dramatic change to the government since he returned to the Kremlin for a third term.