VIETNAM TODAY

Emerging East Asia’s local currency bond markets expanded 7.0% to $5.7 trillion in 2011, says the ADB’s Asia Bond Monitor.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has proposed to amend the methods used to calculate petroleum retail prices.

While the government is considering raising wages for civil servants, savings will be made by reducing the size of the workforce.

Despite two new overpasses opening in Hanoi, traffic congestion has remained just as bad in the surrounding areas.

After many years living abroad, Thuy Van and Tuan Hung, famous dancers of the community of overseas Vietnamese, will organize their first show in Vietnam at Tieng Xua night club, HCM City.

Electrical short-circuits were the main cause of vehicle fires over the past two years, a public meeting was told this morning.

Hanoi’s Vice Chairman has proposed that the Ministries of Justice and Transport increase penalties for traffic violations.

Small-scale telecom companies are facing challenges due to market saturation and the dominance of several big players.

Tran Le Quoc Toan is on the verge of grasping an Olympic ticket after he won the silver medal at the ongoing Asian Weightlifting Championships in South Korea.

The Internet contributes 0.9 percent to total Vietnam’s GDP and 1.6 percent to the country’s total 14.4 percent GDP growth.

He has been spoiling for a fight for months but now it is official: US President Barack Obama will hold the first proper political rallies of his reelection bid in early May.

16% of listed firms on Vietnam’s stock markets incurred losses in 2011, with the results blamed on incompetent leadership.

The HCM City Department of Transport has proposed that the city People’s Committee ban business activities on the roadsides of 112 streets in 16 districts.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has submitted the draft of the National Tiger Conservation Programme by 2022 to the Prime Minister.

Ten Vietnamese records in the intellectual property were announced at a ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City.

Vietnam and the UK have vowed to continue strongly promoting bilateral economic, trade and investment cooperation, describing it as the key area of their cooperation.

Experts are worried that Cat Ba Island's environment might be destroyed if 40 million cubic metres of mud from a harbour project are dumped into the ocean.

The government is drafting a circular that prohibit organisations and individual employers from hiring children for hazardous work.

Students nowadays do not want to study at pedagogical schools to become teachers, even though they do not have to pay tuition for university study.