VIETNAM TODAY

16,100 workers in Hanoi registered for unemployment benefits in the first 11 months of the year, up almost 4 fold from last year.

While office and business workers have been anxious these days to know how much they will get for Tet bonuses, teachers say Tet bonus proves to be an “abstract dream” for them.

Red Cross Vietnam held a formal ceremony to receive an aid package of $15,000 from Chile’s Government and Embassy in Vietnam for flood victims.

"Fast Five," "Hangover II" and "Thor" were among the most-pirated movies of 2011, according to a new list from the blog TorrentFreak.

The Sai Gon River and other rivers in HCM City have become more polluted because of increasing levels of waste-water from household and industrial waste.

The Japanese Government will provide Vietnam a non-refundable aid package of USD3.8 million to help prevent the spread of drug-resistant bacteria in Vietnam.

Eurozone banks deposited a record amount of overnight funds at the European Central Bank, official data showed as banks remain extremely wary of lending to each other.

Reducing traffic jams and accidents is responsibility of everyone, said PM Nguyen Tan Dung.

One of the causes for the mysterious fires that destroyed a series of motorbikes nationwide may be the poor quality of the gasoline, said a lecturer at a HCM City university.

Rescue forces have halted their search for a missing Vinalines ship after finding a patch of oil in an area of ocean 5,000 metres deep.

The State Bank's governor granted a license for the newly-merged SCB which starts operation from Jan 1, 2012.

Vietnam earned $6 billion from seafood exports this year, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers.

An Australian gold mining exploration company said it had halted activities at a project in Indonesia, after a violent protest at a nearby port last week that left two people dead.

North Korea Wednesday began the funeral of late leader Kim Jong-Il, Russian media reported from a snowy Pyongyang.

Doctors from Ho Chi Minh City’s Cho Ray Hospital have pledged to treat a 35-year-old woman who is densely covered with bubble-like lumps.

“Vietnam – Timeless Charm” and the five petal lotus have been selected as the slogan and symbol of Vietnamese tourism in 2012-2015 term.

Iran threatened to stop the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz if foreign sanctions were imposed on its crude exports over its nuclear ambitions.

Several State-owned enterprises used State funds to hand out large payments to their top employees, an expert said.

The Transport Minister proposed that car owners must have legal parking lots before registering their vehicles.