VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnam is among 16 markets in the world that receive the biggest amount of overseas remittances, one official has said.

The Minsitry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) has just submitted a draft proposal on off-day adjustment for this Tet holiday to Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

A UN report says the world has made "extraordinary" achievements in the past year at combating HIV, but that greater efforts are still needed to end the global epidemic.

World finance received a gigantic shot in the arm Thursday, markets surging as central banks unleashed a massive money-go-round days from an EU deadline to beat debt blues.

Top leaders of Vietnam and Thailand vowed to do their utmost to develop multifaceted bilateral cooperation in a deep and effective manner.

Vietnamese companies are forecast to owe VND6 trillion in social insurance payments to their staff by the end of the year.

Japanese Red Cross has committed $2.76 million to help a Vietnam Red Cross mangrove and disaster risk reduction project till 2015.

Hoi An town in the central province of Quang Nam ranked sixth among the top ten Food & Wine Destinations in Asia.

Managing director of the HCM City-Trung Luong expressway project La Chi Duc has been fired for poor quality of the road’s construction.

Although the government’s decree on gold trading management has yet to take effect, some gold bullion producers have halted their processing work.

The world's deforestation rate has accelerated to 6.4 million hectares a year, a new UN survey showed.

The Construction Ministry's draft decree requires a housing project to reserve 70% of its area for small and medium-sized apartments.

A US-funded project on strengthening disaster prevention and adaptation capacity for the most vulnerable central coastal area of Vietnam was launched.

The restructuring of state-owned enterprises has slowed to a snail’s pace due to fundamental flaws in laws and regulations.

Twenty percent of teachers do not master the skills for using teaching aids, while only 49 percent of students can do experiments in groups sometimes.

Electronics and manufacturing giant Toshiba said Wednesday it is to shut three semiconductor factories in Japan as part of a reorganisation of its business.

The German Red Cross provided 350 water filters to poor residents in the areas most severely affected by the recent floods in Quang Binh and An Giang.

Tran Vuong Mai Khanh won a silver medal in the girls' U-8 category at the World Youth Chess Championships in Brazil on Sunday.

PM Yingluck Shinawatra began a visit to Vietnam with the aim of fostering trade and investment ties between the two countries, says Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul.