VIETNAM TODAY

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.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas returned home to a hero’s welcome, telling the crowd “yes, now we have a state”.

Both the public and local agencies in Hanoi have raised concerns over a new dog registration rule, saying it is impractical.

State President Truong Tan Sang’s recent visits to Brunei Darussalam and Myanmar have opened up new opportunities for cooperation between Vietnam and these two countries.

Japanese highway police found "several" burned bodies inside a vehicle after a tunnel collapsed about 80 kilometers west of Tokyo.

Vietnamese small-and-medium-sized enterprises are in desperate need of a product overhaul to become more competitive in the domestic market.

Singer My Tam has become the first and only Vietnamese artist to receive the Best Asian Artist title at the Mnet Asian Music Awards 2012.