VIETNAM TODAY

Nguyen Duy Hai has been successfully operated on for his 90kg tumor after a grueling 10-hour long surgery at HCMC-based FV hospital, the surgery team announced.

The year of 2011 has seen the biggest human resource change at the top levels of Vietnamese banking sector.

Deputy Foreign Minister Pham Quang Vinh and Singaporean Permanent Secretary of Foreign Affairs Bilahari Kausikan co-chaired the sixth political consultation in Singapore.

“Bay Rong” or Clash will be the first Vietnamese action film that will appear on Star Movies in Asia and the Middle East on Saturday night, January 14.

Vietnam’s foreign reserves this year will increase to $15.81 billion from the $12.56 billion recorded last year, forecast JPMorgan Chase Bank.

Two South Korean stars will come to Vietnam to advertise their newly released TV series entitled My Princess and also raise funds for Vietnamese needy children.

The HCM City administration is determined to stop flooding at 10 of 31 spots in the city by the end of the year.

A large number of people in northern Vietnam, mostly babies and the elderly, were hospitalised due to icy cold.

Ho Chi Minh City continue to lead the country in industrial production in 2011 with a value of nearly VND740 trillion (USD35.17 billion).

Many universities opened new departments, despite failing to meet the requirements on the number of doctors and masters.

Vietnamese soldiers are forces sent by the Buddha to help liberate Cambodia from the Khmer Rouge, said Cambodian PM Hun Sen.

Mau Son Mountain Peak in the northern province of Lang Son was covered in ice at 03:00am as a result of the recent freezing weather, stiff winds and drizzling rain.

The Ministry of Transport and its agencies will take responsibility for all vehicle fires from 2012.

The European Union and the United States tightened the sanctions noose around Iran, with saying a agreement had been reached on an EU embargo of Iranian oil.

International Grandmaster Le Quang Liem of Vietnam has been invited to join the 2012 Olympics Torch Relay in Manchester, England in June.

Da Lat native Nguyen Duy Hai is undergoing surgery on the 90 kilo tumor on his right leg at France-Vietnam Hospital today, and American doctor McKay McKinnon is the main surgeon.

PetroVietnam topped the list of average salaries of state-owned corporations, many of which were exorbitant.

At least 16 people were killed and another 100 were missing in the southern Philippines on Thursday after a landslide struck a community of gold prospectors, officials said.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung and cabinet members reviewed the implementation of Governmental working regulations in 2011 and discussed this year’s working programme in Hanoi on Jan. 4.