VIETNAM TODAY

Hanoi has licensed only two night clubs, but many bars and karaoke parlors operate like discotheques.

The number of dead from a landslide in a remote gold-mining community in the southern Philippines hit 28 but rescuers said the toll may rise with about 35 people unaccounted for.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung has urged the Vietnam Fatherland Front to work closely with the Government to fulfill the socio-economic tasks set for this year.

Vietnam, in its 2011-2020 strategy, sets a target of achieving a balance of trade in 2020, Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang said.

The Ministry of Information and Communications will suspend services to those spammers and scam promoters targeting mobile devices.

The movie “Hot Boy Noi Loan” (Lost in Paradise) by director Vu Ngoc Dang will be sent to the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012.

Vietnam attaches special importance to developing cooperation with India, considering it one of the priorities in the country’s foreign policy.

All 11 people on board a hot air balloon were killed after it burst into flames and crashed in New Zealand, police said.

Emirates Airline has launched a daily nonstop service from Dubai to HCM City as the carrier continues to expand its business in Southeast Asia.

The IMF's top economist said banks holding Greek debt could be forced to take larger writedowns than planned.

Over 3,000 people were killed in South Sudan in brutal massacres last week in an explosion of ethnic violence that forced tens of thousands to flee, a local official said.

Petra Kvitova helped the Czech Republic reach the Hopman Cup final, defeating world number one Caroline Wozniacki.

Travel agencies providing international tourism services this year may have to pay a deposit twice the current VND250 million (USD11,900), according to a draft decree.

India's Bollywood film industry is eyeing its Asian rival China as a potential market, after a successful run of "3 Idiots", the coming-of-age comedy starring Aamir Khan.

Three local universities have publicly protested a ban on their July enrollment that was recently enacted by the Ministry of Education and Training.

The euro is unlikely to "vanish" this year, IMF chief said, but warned a report this month will show the global economy growing slower than the 4.0% estimated in September.

The Vietnam National Petroleum Corporation asked the Ministry of Finance for approval to determine its fuel price.

The Vietnam Football Federation will limit the number of foreign players in the national football league from 2013, the federation's vice chairman Pham Ngoc Vien said.

Vietnam committed a total of $10.8 billion of investment in 627 projects in 55 countries and territories around the world by late 2011, the Ministry of Planning and Investment reports.