VIETNAM TODAY

The UN in Vietnam has initiated a series of consultations with Vietnamese people to discuss the country's 2015 development framework that will run until early 2013.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Beijing has held a meeting on January 18 to mark the 63rd anniversary of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and China.

The General Department of Taxation has revealed that they are facing difficulties recovering debts of VND45 trillion from enterprises.

US aerospace giant Boeing said late Friday it had suspended deliveries of its new 787 Dreamliner jet until a battery problem is resolved, but continues to build the plane.

Hundreds of poachers have active around West Lake, with no measures taken to date having been effective at solving the problem.

CEOs of state-owned economic groups will be dismissed if they let their holding companies suffer losses for two consecutive years.

Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner on January 18 started her 4-day visit to Vietnam expected to open cooperative opportunities between the two countries.

Nearly 18,000 real estate and construction companies faced losses, went bankrupt or closed last year because of the challenging economic situation in the country.

China's economy grew at its slowest pace in 13 years in 2012, the government said Friday.

Consultancy organisations for study abroad must deposit VND500 million ($23,800) in a commercial bank to operate in Vietnam, according to a regulation.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Friday that there would be no dismantlement of any Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank if he wins a general election next week.

Falling oyster prices and mounting inventories have been troubling oyster farmers in Thanh Hoa Province’s Hau Loc District.

Thousands of native-English speakers will be invited to teach English in Vietnam under an education cooperation agreement.

Vietnam continues occupying the top position in the Southeast Asian region in FIFA rankings for January 2013.

A conference to collect the opinions of overseas Vietnamese about the draft revision of the 1992 Constitution has been held in Hanoi.

While China continues to threaten Vietnamese sovereignty over the East Sea, a renewed sense of nationalism has been stirred among the public here.

Land management breaches by Da Nang City authorities had caused a loss of VND3.4 trillion (US$161 million) for the State budget, the Government Inspectorate said.

Algerian forces stormed a desert gas complex to free hundreds of hostages but 30 were killed in the assault along with at least 11 of their Islamist captors, an Algerian security source said.

A lack of long-term strategic mechanisms has prevented Vietnam from tapping into the financial resources and technological assistance that are available from the global community to support countries dealing with climate change.