VIETNAM TODAY

A well-known Vietnamese-Australian inventor has been nominated as a candidate for the title “Australian of the Year 2012”.

Authorities have agreed to raise the ceiling for one-way fares for the longest domestic route to 5 million VND to offset rising operating costs, according to the Ministry of Transport.

Officials from Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam will discuss the controversial Xayaburi dam in Mekong River next week.

Vietnam and Austria will increase bilateral cooperation in such priority areas as economics, trade, investment, tertiary education and scientific research.

Thailand will issue a passport for its fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra "very soon," the country's foreign minister said Friday.

Senior officials of the Communist Party of China and the Communist Party of Vietnam met in Beijing to discuss the further development of bilateral ties.

The European Union began a nine-day battle over federal-style changes to save the eurozone, with French President Nicolas Sarkozy saying that Europe needs to be "refounded".

A newly released survey seems to have revealed increasing evidence of depression among the nation’s youth.

Only one third of HIV infected children in HCM City are admitted to school due to social discrimination against them.

The average life expectancy of Vietnamese people climbed to 73 this year but their healthy life span is just 66, an agency said.

Representatives from the Greater Mekong Sub-region nations met in Hanoi on December 1 to discuss ways to expand green growth.

Corruption is hampering efforts to tackle the eurozone debt crisis, a top anti-graft watchdog said Thursday.

Donors from 160 countries agreed to form a worldwide partnership to ensure tens of billions of dollars in foreign aid goes to help the neediest.

The Construction Minister submitted a USD57.14 million project to construct flood-resistant houses in low-income areas.

Officials from the Ministry of Science and Technology began a survey in Quang Nam Province to define cause of recent explosions there.

Many pictures, maps and items that prove Vietnam’s sovereignty over Paracel Islands several centuries ago are preserved at the museums in Quang Ngai Province and Danang city.

Vietnam is one of the five countries that receive the biggest Official Development Assistance capital in the world, according to a recent forum in Hanoi.

Vietnamese young talent tennis player Nguyen Hoang Thien was defeated in the first round of the Eddie Herr International Junior Tennis Championships in the US.

Britain expelled all Iranian diplomats and shut its embassy in Tehran after the mission was attacked by protesters angry at fresh sanctions against the Islamic republic's nuclear programme.