VIETNAM TODAY

The best meteor shower of the year, a display of shooting stars known as the Geminids, is set to peak early Tuesday.

Vietnam will have to play Malaysia in the first leg of the ASEAN Football Federation Suzuki Cup semi-finals in Kuala Lumpur without several of the team's best players.

The workshop themed “Vietnam National Partnership against transnational crime through regional law enforcement” was official kicked off December 13 in Hanoi.

Vietnam’s rice export revenue this year is estimated to set a record of over US$3 billion, said Vietnam Food Association chairperson Truong Thanh Phong.

Rescuers on Tuesday called off the search for 17 crew members missing from a South Korean trawler that sank off Antarctica, bringing the death toll from the tragedy to 22.

The Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee, Xth tenure, convened its 14th meeting on Dec. 13.

10,000 flower garlands and coloured lanterns were on display for a night dedicated to peace and raising money for flood victims.

British police searched a house in southeast England which is thought to be the home of an alleged suicide bomber who blew himself up in Stockholm at the weekend.

A JGC Corp.-led group that includes Chiyoda Corp. and Technip SA won exclusive negotiating rights for a contract to build a refinery in Vietnam, the Nikkei newspaper reported.

The New World Alliance said Monday it will launch its first direct Vietnam-North Europe service.

The Vietnamese Entrepreneurs Association in France made its debut at the Vietnamese Cultural Centre in Paris on December 11.

Taiwan display maker Wintek Corp is in talks with some industrial parks in Vietnam to build a display module plant there, a source told Reuters.

Quang Ngai Province will spend VND400 billion to develop an ecological and historical tourism complex on the historical site where doctor Dang Thuy Tram used to work.

Minister of Education and Training said more social contributions are needed to help thousands of students in the Mekong delta region.

A senior expert from the Vietnam Gold Traders Association has said the country should establish a national gold exchange.

Migrants have added to the poor population in Vietnam’s urban areas but, so far, their numbers have not been accurately measured in poverty surveys.

Permanent Deputy PM Nguyen Sinh Hung welcomed Japan’s stronger cooperation with Vietnam on many economic fields, especially developing auxiliary industries.

Twenty-two fishermen were presumed dead after their South Korean trawler sank suddenly off Antarctica on Monday.

WWF Vietnam has agreed to temporarily remove tra fish from their 2010 consumer red list guides.