VIETNAM TODAY

Lamnao Singto’s brace helped hosts Laos trounce Indonesia 2-0 in an attractive game at Chao Anuvong stadium today.

The increase in basic interest rates and the adjustment of the US dollar-VND exchange rate have sent the prices of imported products and essential goods in HCM City soaring at a dizzying pace.

Can Tho, Ho Chi Minh, Da Nang, Hanoi and Hai Phong cities were selected for a pilot programme on teaching English to third graders.

“A deal is within our reach,” the Danish Prime Minister said on Monday – the first day of the UN climate change conference.

On the basis of the scenarios on climate change and sea level rise, all ministries and localities have to take positive steps to deal with the threats, focusing on planning work, stressed PM Nguyen Tan Dung.

Manila Water Company has signed an agreement with REE and Mitsubishi to study and evaluate private participation in environmental services projects in Vietnam.

New survey shows that Vietnam is one of the friendliest countries in the world for expatriates to live and work in.

According to a new report from the Government, the national spending on social security for this year is VND22.470 trillion.

Serica Energy is selling some of its assets in Indonesia and all of them in Vietnam to Singapore-based KrisEnergy for $98.6m (£60.1m) in cash.

Chunghwa Telecom is actively endeavoring to extend its reach into the fledgling Southeast Asian market, reported the Chinese-language Economic Daily News.

Vietnam's freight transportation went up 4.1 percent year-on-year in the first 11 months of this year to 583.4 million tons.

Vietnam has finalised legislation relating to databases on land in 54 out of 63 cities and provinces nationwide.

ANZ has opened its tenth branch in Vietnam and completed its acquisition of the Royal Bank of Scotland's Vietnam businesses.

Yet I met no shortage of investors willing to gamble on Vietnam and that is a good thing.

The future of the Doosan Group as a global conglomerate depends on China and Vietnam, according to Chairman Park Yong-hyun.

Delegates from 192 countries are gathering in the Danish capital Copenhagen for the opening of the long-awaited UN summit on climate change.

Vietnamese leaders reaffirmed that the Party, State and people of Vietnam consistently support the revolutionary cause in Cuba.

SOUTHEAST Asia will invest $32 billion in transport infrastructure over five years from 2010 to 2014, a KPMG study has projected.

The programme for poverty reduction in Vietnam, funded by Sweden continues its Phase 2 until 2012, said the Embassy of Sweden in Hanoi.