VIETNAM TODAY

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.

The Ministry of Health has destroyed a large amount of substandard and fake medicine in recent months.

Authorities in Beijing said Friday they will start publicising data on the tiny particles that make up much of the city's pollution, after a public outcry over air quality measurements.

Transport Minister Dinh La Thang brought a diplomatic note to the Japanese Embassy in Hanoi, proposing the Japanese Government to continue to help in searching for 22 sailors.

Iraq faces calls to end a political stand-off after a wave of attacks against Shiite Muslims killed at least 68 people, the worst toll in nearly five months.

The Prime Minister has ordered the Ministry of Science and Technology deliver results on their inspection of petroleum quality.