VIETNAM TODAY

With treatment of medical waste being highly capital-intensive, only around 70 percent of it is treated in hospitals around the country.

Mitt Romney won the first battle in the 2012 White House race in dramatic fashion, wresting Iowa from devout Christian conservative Rick Santorum.

Education experts have asked the Education and Training Ministry to create conditions for universities to have more autonomy in recruitment and enrolment quotas.

China said it had uncovered 530.9 billion yuan ($84 billion) in misused funds in an audit of local government debts, as it moves to clean up "problem" financing.

Taiwan has halted search activities for a Vinalines ship and the 22 crew members, while the Philippines has yet to assign helicopters for the search due to bad weather.

Hanoi received a proposal to allow using housing of stagnant resettlement projects for urgent projects.

Tran Le Quoc Toan has ranked in the top three of the men's 56kg division following the latest rankings issued by the International Weightlifting Federation

Business optimism in Vietnam fell sharply in the year 2011, but remained in positive level, says a report of Grant Thornton.

Thousands of joggers will join in the annual Lawrence S. Ting charity walk to raise funds for poor people to help them have an adequate Tet festival.

Residents at Keangnam lodged a petition to the Hanoi People’s Committee, accusing the company of threatening to cut services.

Many people are seeking to buy countryside specialties as gifts for their families and friends on Tet holiday.

The southern province of Hau Giang recently detected the first outbreak of bird flu in a household raising 450 chickens in Long My district.

Vietnam must increase the export value by 13 percent and keep the trade deficit at 12 percent in 2012, says Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan was full of thanks to the SOS Children’s Village International at a reception for the organisation’s President Helmut Kutin in Hanoi.

The Vietnamese stock market is expected to face continued challenges in 2012 due to high inflation and market instabilities.

A threat by Iran to unleash the "full force" of its navy if a US aircraft carrier is redeployed to the Gulf, and an American dismissal of the warning, sent tensions and oil prices soaring.

Air travel has never been safer despite the steadily rising number of passengers worldwide, a new report revealed.

While the Vietnamese retail market is considered to be highly profitable by foreign distributors, locally-made products still have little presence in the lucrative market.

Thousands of foreign tourists chose to celebrate the New Year in Vietnam.